Laura Merson
Head of Data, ISARIC
IDDO
Laura Merson joined ERGO and IDDO in 2015 to support new platform initiatives for emerging infections and neglected tropical diseases, including coordination of the Ebola Data Sharing Platform. This joint position integrates many of Laura’s research interests including exploring issues in sharing biomedical research data and in changing the paradigm of clinical research in outbreaks to enable rapid research response to emerging infections. As an executive member of the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC), Laura has contributed to the development of standardized, open-access research protocols designed for outbreak response in collaboration with the World Health Organization. Before moving to Oxford, Laura spent more than six years building capacity in research design, implementation and ethics across Asia and Africa as Head of Clinical Trials for the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit Viet Nam.
Collaborations
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Recent publications
Immune dysregulation through longitudinal lymphocyte trajectories and their clinical determinants in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
Journal article
Cidade JP. et al, (2026), Intensive Care Med Exp, 14
Unified framework for the ingestion of early epidemic data for downstream data analytics
Preprint
Kamau E. et al, (2026)
Dengue therapeutics consortium 2025: a global collaboration in action.
Journal article
McBride A. et al, (2026), BMJ Public Health, 4
How to conduct an individual participant data meta-analysis in response to an emerging pathogen: Lessons learned from Zika and COVID-19.
Journal article
Maxwell L. et al, (2026), Res Synth Methods, 17, 1 - 29
Decade-long antiretroviral therapy in Uganda: Population-health outcomes from a national HIV treatment cohort, 2014-2024.
Journal article
Namaganda MM. et al, (2026), PLOS Glob Public Health, 6