Dr Paul Heath

NAME	Paul T. Heath
Research Status	Clinical Scientist
Academic Section	Paediatrics
Phone Number	020 87255980
Email	pheath@sgul.ac.uk
Research Interests	Perinatal and neonatal infections (Group B streptococcus) Vaccination and immunisation (vaccinology) Vaccine preventable infections
MAJOR Research Techniques	Clinically based research. Epidemiology. Immunology. (Vaccinology).
Minor Research Techniques
RECENT PUBLICATIONS — ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPERS
Heath PT, Booy R, McVernon J, Griffiths H, Bowen-Morris J, Slack MPE, Moloney AC, Ramsay ME, Moxon ER. Hib Vaccination in Infants Born Prematurely. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2003;88:206-10. Heath PT, Balfour G, Weisner AM, Efstratiou A, Lamagni TL, Tighe H, O'Connell LAF, Cafferkey M, Verlander NQ, Nicoll A, AC McCartney. Group B streptococcal disease in UK and Irish infants < 90 days of age. Lancet 2004;363:292-4. Collins C L, Ruggeberg JU, Balfour G, Tighe H, Archer M, Bowen-Morris J, Diggle L, Borrow R, Balmer P, Buttery J P, Moxon E R, Pollard AJ, Heath P T. Immunogenicity and Immunological Memory of Meningococcal C Conjugate Vaccine in Premature infants. Peadiatric Infectious Diseases Journal 2005;24(11):966-8. Nik G Johnson, Jens U Ruggeberg, Gail F Balfour, Y Chen Lee, Helen Liddy, Diane Irving, Joanna Sheldon, Mary PE Slack, Andrew J Pollard, Paul T Heath. Reemergence of Haemophilus influenzae type b associated with reduced antibody and avidity responses after primary immunization with acellular pertussis-containing combination vaccines. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2006 Jun;12(6):937-41. Haitham El Bashir, Paul T. Heath, Thomas Papa, Jens U Ruggeberg, Nik Johnson, Ruchi Sinha, Gail Balfour and Robert Booy. Antibody responses to meningococcal (groups A, C, Y and W135) polysaccharide diphtheria toxoid conjugate vaccine in children who previously received meningococcal C conjugate vaccine. Vaccine. 2006; 24:2544-9. Jens U. Ruggeberg, Clare Collins, Paul Clarke, Nik Johnson, Ruchi Sinha, Neil Everest, John Chang, Elaine Stanford, Paul Balmer, Ray Borrow, Sarah Martin, Michael J. Robinson, E Richard Moxon, Andrew J. Pollard, Paul T. Heath. Immunogenicity and induction of immunological memory of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in preterm UK infants. Vaccine 2006 (in press).
RECENT REVIEWS / BOOK CHAPTERS
Heath PT, Nik Yusoff NK, Baker CJ. Neonatal Meningitis. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2003 88(3):F173-8. Heath PT, Ramsay ME. Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine--booster campaign. BMJ. 2003;326(7400):1158-9. Vergnano S, Heath PT. Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A vaccines: an overview. Expert Rev. Vaccines 2003; 2(4):571-582. Stefania Vergnano, Peter Kazembe, Charles Mwansambo, Mike Sharland, Paul T Heath. Neonatal sepsis: an international perspective. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2005; 90(3):F220-4. Heath PT, Feldman RG.Vaccination against Group B streptococcus. Expert Rev Vaccines. 2005;4(2):207-18. Bonhoeffer J, SiegristCA, Heath PT. Immunisation of the preterm infant. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2006 (in press).