Adam Hugh Roderick Finn is professor of paediatrics at the

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and head of the Bristol Children's Vaccine Centre. He has been chairman of the

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(WHO) European Technical Advisory Group of Experts (ETAGE) on Immunization since 2011 and is an ex-officio member of the WHO

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. He is a member of the British Department of Health

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(JCVI) and in 2015 was elected president of the

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(ESPID). Finn was a senior lecturer at the

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for 10 years before joining the University of Bristol as professor of paediatrics and head of the Bristol Children's Vaccine Centre.

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