Dr Nandini Shetty

Clinical & Scientific Advisor, The Fleming Fund, Department of Health & Social Care 

Nationality – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Dr Nandini Shetty is Consultant Clinical Microbiologist and Infection Specialist with over 35 years’ experience both in the UK working with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and National Health Service (NHS) and in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Her focus is the surveillance, detection, prevention, and control of AMR working at the healthcare facility level and also in policy and advocacy in a senior leadership capacity.  She has led on strengthening AMR detection and control capability in several LMICs. 

She is currently the Clinical and Scientific Advisor to the Fleming Fund UK, a world leading UKAID and Global Health Security programme supporting LMICs to address the growing threat of AMR. 

Dr Shetty qualified with a basic medical degree from St John’s Medical College & Hospital, Bangalore, India. She received her post-graduate training in Medical Microbiology in India and in the UK with the Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists, a Diploma in Hospital Infection Control and an MSc in Epidemiology and Statistics, London University.

Dr Shetty has been involved in preparedness and response delivery for the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone and during the COVID-19 pandemic as Virology Cell Lead for the UK response including in the UK overseas territories. 

In 2022, Dr Shetty retired as Head of the Bacteriology Reference Department and Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre (WHO CC) for Reference & Research in AMR & HCAI, UKHSA. Under her leadership, the WHO CC was awarded Host Institution status to train and mentor Fleming Fund Fellows. 

Dr Shetty has authored scientific and technical papers and policy and guidance documents addressing AMR including as lead author on a joint WHO – Public Health England (now UKHSA) curricula guide for health workers on AMR.