About
Sam is a public health specialist and medical doctor working as a clinical research fellow in the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) on Emerging and Zoonotic Infections. His research and career focus is the interface of emerging infectious diseases with clinical and public health impacts nationally and globally.
Prior to joining the HPRU, he worked as a health advisor on the research and evidence response to infectious diseases for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Government. He completed an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship at University College London, working on the COVID-19 response and with the Uganda Virus Research Institute on emerging zoonotic disease. During public health specialty training he led reports for the World Health Organization, Geneva on public health governance and health systems resilience to shocks including climate change and infectious disease outbreaks and was based with the UK Health Security Agency global health protection division and North London Health Protection Team.
He obtained BSc (Medical Sciences) and MBChB at the University of Aberdeen and MSc Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He holds Fellowship of the UK Faculty of Public Health .