Paul Turner is a clinical paediatric microbiologist and director of the Cambodia Oxford Medical Research Unit (COMRU), based at Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap. COMRU is a component of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, one of the Wellcome Africa and Asia Programmes. He is Professor of Paediatric Microbiology at the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford.

Paul leads research on pneumococcal colonisation and the nasopharyngeal microbiota, paediatric invasive bacterial infection epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). He is the principal investigator of the ACORN Asia-Africa clinical AMR surveillance network. His non-research work focuses on capacity development for diagnostic microbiology in low-resource settings, in particular improving laboratory informatics for better local data utilisation. Paul led development of the MICRO reporting framework for clinical microbiology data and chairs the steering committee for a Wellcome-funded SEDRI-LIMS open-source laboratory data management development project.