**About the Editor**

### **Diane Ashiru-Oredope**

Professor Diane Ashiru-Oredope PhD FFRPS, FRPharmS is the Lead Pharmacist for healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) at UK Health Security Agency and is Chair of the English Surveillance Programme for Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resistance (ESPAUR). She is also Honorary Chair and Professor of Pharmaceutical Public Health at the University of Nottingham.

An antimicrobial pharmacist by background, Diane has led several projects that have shaped national and international policy in tackling antimicrobial resistance, including creating the global Antibiotic Guardian campaign in 2014. From 2016 to March 2022, she was advisor and Global AMR lead for the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association. Diane remains research active, with more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, and is one of the editors for BMC Public Health. She recently led the UK-wide evidence review on Pharmaceutical Public Health, commissioned by the four UK Chief Pharmaceutical Officers. In 2022, she was credentialed as a consultant pharmacist through the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's national credentialing and assessment processes. She has been recognised nationally, including through awards, nominations to deliver two TEDx talks, and fellowships with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (FRPharmS and FFRPS).
