Aidan Birdi

Hi I’m Aidan – a third year medic.

I’ve been involved in IDSoc for three years, and been on the committee for two years (as Public Health Officer and Publicity Officer), so I have an excellent understanding of what makes IDSoc so amazing and what it might take to lead it!

My primary goals as chair would be to:

• Organise amazing events and public health campaigns!
• Maintain strong collaborative links with ICSM societies and sponsors. We want to continue our track record of hosting conferences, charity events, lectures and teaching. From the national SfGH conference in 2021, the AMR campaign in 2022, our fun-runs (to name a select few!) – and I’m really excited for our inaugural ImmunoXIDSoc conference which is going to be amazing!
• Improve the popular appeal of our society amongst medical students. I would suggest, with consultation and agreement of the rest of the committee and members, that we consider broadening the scope of our society to include epidemiology, to plug a long-standing gap in ICSM academic societies. We may consider rebranding the society as: Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Society (IDESoc)
• Continue to provide peer-teaching revision sessions to our members.
• Focus on relevant and interesting themes for Imperial students, alongside increasing the variety of events – more socials!
• Work closely with other committee members to improve our society!

Being on committee at ICSM Coding, LMAP Soc and SfGH Imperial, have further improved my understanding of running societies.