
Professor Adam Finn
Professor of Paediatrics, University of Bristol
Professor Adam Finn is Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Bristol.
He studied Medical Sciences at Cambridge University and then moved to University of Oxford Medical School to complete his clinical degree in 1983. After qualifying he did training jobs in paediatrics in Sheffield, Bristol and Guy’s Hospital London before taking up a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 1987. He completed his academic training as Lecturer in Immunology at the Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond St, London where he wrote his PhD.
In 1992, he took up a senior lecturer position at the University of Sheffield, UK. Over the following 9 years he established both clinical and laboratory research groups there, focussing on mucosal immune responses to paediatric conjugate vaccines and the pathogenesis of upper and lower respiratory tract pneumococcal infection. In 2001, he moved to Bristol where he leads the Bristol Children’s Vaccine Centre. He was Chair of the WHO European Technical Advisory Group of Experts (ETAGE) on Immunization from 2011 to 2022. He remains a member of the WHO SAGE Working Group on COVID-19 vaccines. He was a member of the UK Department of Health Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) from 2014 to 2024. He remains a member of JCVI subcommittees on varicella, RSV and pneumococcal vaccines. Between 2015 and 2019 he was President of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID).