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Dr Estee Torok PhD FRCP FRCPath is a British / American academic physician. She is a Senior Program Officer in Global Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, an Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge.

Education and career


Torok obtained a BA (Hons) in Physiological Sciences from the University of Oxford and qualified in medicine from St Mary's Hospital Medical School (now Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK).

She did her specialist training in Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology in Oxford, UK, and her PhD research at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

She was appointed a Consultant in Infectious Diseases at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2009. She was appointed a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge in 2011, and was awarded a Clinician Scientist Fellowship by the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Health Foundation.

She joined the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as a Senior Program Officer in Global Health in 2020.

Research
Torok has a life long interest in global health and over 20 years' clinical research experience in malaria, TB, HIV, viral hepatitis, S. aureus, antimicrobial resistance and COVID-19. At the University of Cambridge her research focussed on translating pathogen genomics from a research tool into clinical practice. She has published over 100 scientific research articles, and three books. During the COVID-19 pandemic she contributed to the RECOVERY trial, the COVID-19 Genomics Consortium UK, and the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial.

External links section
Estee Torok LinkedIn profile

Estee Torok Twitter profile