Leadership in times of Global Health Challenge

Stephen Reicher is a leading social psychologist who was heavily involved in advisory groups to the UK and Scottish Governments during the Covid-19 pandemic. Stephen's most recent research has focused on group behaviour, individual societal relationships, political rhetoric and social change.

Cynthia Whitney is the Principal Investigator and Executive Director of the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) programme, a multicounty programme that generates accurate information on causes of child mortality. Previously, she was Chief of the Respiratory Diseases Branch in the Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and worked for 25 years at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Vicky Ward is a social scientist who focuses on how organisations and groups of people create, manage and use knowledge. She is Director of the Research Unit for Research Utilisation, chairs the UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum and is a Parliamentary Academic Fellow with the UK Parliament Office of Science and Technology. She specialises in producing frameworks, models and materials to help leaders, practitioners and communities to think and create knowledge together.

Dr Jo Mhairi Hale is a member of the University's Population and Health Research Group, a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, and an expert for Population Europe. Her research explores how socio-political stratification creates and perpetuates health disparities.

Muge Cevik is an infectious disease physician and researcher and science communicator, who served in the advisory groups to the UK and Scottish Government during the Covid-19 pandemic.