About
Carole Fry, Infection Prevention and Control Specialist at the UK Health Security Agency.
Carole is a nurse specialist in infection prevention and control (IPC) with extensive experience working in the NHS, the Department of Health and UKHSA during which time she has had a range of roles including nursing officer for communicable diseases at the Department of Health, strategic lead for the PHE AMR programme and deputy director of the high-consequence infectious disease programme. Carole has also worked as an IPC Technical Officer for the World Health Organization in Geneva.
Carole has been an active supporter of the Infection Prevention Society (IPS) and well as its predecessor organisation, the Infection Control Nurses Association, for many years. She has been a member of the Education Professional Development Committee and well as the board member for England. She was invited to give the Cottrell lecture in 2015.
In addition to being a member trustee of the IPS, Carole is the deputy chair of the Healthcare Infection Society guidelines committee, sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hospital infection and is a member of the World Health Emergencies IPC working group. She is a Florence Nightingale scholar and recipient of the Ebola service medal.
