Dr Susanne Hodgson
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Susanne Hodgson
Associate Professor and Consultant Physician
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Dr Susanne Hodgson
Susanne Hodgson is a clinician scientist with experience in early-phase vaccine development and efficacy testing in the UK and low-income settings. She has a special interest in experimental medicine and controlled human infection studies to assess vaccine efficacy and natural immunity to infection. She currently leads the Gonococcal Vaccine Project at the Jenner Institute and the Gonococcal Human Challenge Programme at the Oxford Vaccine Group. Susanne is a practising physician specialising in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology and is a Research Fellow and Clinical Lecturer in Medicine at St Peter's College Oxford.
Recent publications
Development of clinical immunity to Plasmodium vivax following repeat controlled human malaria infection
Journal article
Hou MM. et al, (2025), Nature Communications, 16
Mixed-methods study assessing the acceptability and feasibility of Human Challenge Studies for Disease X in Healthy UK Adults in a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic setting
Journal article
Emary KRW. et al, (2025), BMJ Public Health, 3, e003096 - e003096
Gonorrhoea: rising cases and antimicrobial resistance
Journal article
Davis P. et al, (2025), BMJ, 389, r1001 - r1001
Acceptability of the gonorrhoea human challenge model to accelerate vaccine development in UK men
Journal article
Firth C. et al, (2025), Vaccine, 54, 127013 - 127013