{"id":54266,"date":"2025-12-23T13:39:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oucru.org\/?p=54266"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:29:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:29:42","slug":"oucru-leadership-transition-effective-1-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/oucru-leadership-transition-effective-1-january-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"OUCRU leadership transition effective 1 January 2026\u00c2\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Professor Guy Thwaites<\/strong>,&nbsp;our&nbsp;Programme&nbsp;Director since 2013&nbsp;will step down from his position on&nbsp;<strong>31 December 2025<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Professor Thwaites\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 tenure at OUCRU is noted&nbsp;for his outstanding leadership and dedication, and for his enduring commitment to strengthening clinical research partnerships and improving health outcomes across the region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Effective&nbsp;<strong>1 January 2026<\/strong>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oucru.org\/people\/kevin-baird\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Professor J. Kevin Baird<\/strong><\/a>, currently Director of OUCRU Indonesia, will take on the role of&nbsp;<strong>Interim Director of the OUCRU&nbsp;Programme<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the same date,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oucru.org\/people\/associate-professor-raph-hamers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Associate Professor Raph L. Hamers<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;(Head of the&nbsp;OUCRU Indonesia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s&nbsp;Clinical Infectious Diseases Research&nbsp;Programme)&nbsp;will take on the role&nbsp;<strong>Interim Director&nbsp;of OUCRU Indonesia<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&nbsp;expect&nbsp;these changes will not affect any ongoing projects or operations. Our teams will continue to work closely with partners, funders, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality research and sustained impact across our sites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Guy Thwaites,&nbsp;our&nbsp;Programme&nbsp;Director since 2013&nbsp;will step down from his position on&nbsp;31 December 2025.&nbsp;&nbsp;Professor Thwaites\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 tenure at OUCRU is noted&nbsp;for his outstanding leadership and dedication, and for his enduring commitment to strengthening clinical research partnerships and improving health outcomes across the region.&nbsp; Effective&nbsp;1 January 2026,&nbsp;Professor J. Kevin Baird, currently Director of OUCRU Indonesia, will take on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":54283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,145,144,146,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ha-noi","category-ho-chi-minh","category-indonesia","category-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54296,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54266\/revisions\/54296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}