Dr Leena Al-Hassan is a senior research fellow at the Department of Global Health and Infection at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She obtained her PhD in Medical Microbiology from the University of Edinburgh. Since joining BSMS in 2014, Leena has been developing research projects in antibiotic resistance in low- and middle-income countries, working on the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in hospital acquired infections from North and sub-Saharan Africa. Several research projects have focused on investigating the molecular epidemiology of bacteria, as well as looking how multiple disciplines influence the rapid spread of antibiotic resistance globally.