Current team

Devi Sridhar is a Professor at the University of Edinburgh Medical School and holds a Personal Chair in Global Public Health.  She is the founding Director of the Global Health Governance Programme and holds a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award. She was previously Associate Professor in Global Health Politics and a Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. She was also a visiting Associate Professor at LMU-Munich and guest lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Public Health Foundation of India. Her books include ‘Preventable - How a pandemic changed the world & how to stop the next one’ (Penguin, 2022), ‘Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?’ (OUP, 2017) and ‘the Battle against Hunger: Choice, Circumstance and the World Bank’ (OUP, 2007) and she has published in Nature, Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet and the British Medical Journal. She served on the board of Save the Children UK, on the World Economic Forum Council on the Health Industry and co-chaired the Harvard/LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola. She holds a DPhil and MPhil from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and a B.S. from the University of Miami in the Honors Medical Program. Her work is concentrated in three areas: international health organizations, financing of global public health and developing better tools for priority-setting.

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Genevie Fernandes is a public health researcher interested in policy and practice for advancing maternal and child health (MCH) especially in developing countries. She joins the team with 8 years of experience in research and programme implementation in MCH, HIV/AIDS and tobacco control across 4 states in India. Her current doctoral research traces the evolution of the World Bank's role and influence in maternal and child health (MCH) over the last forty years, and also aims to produce a case study of the Bank's involvement in India. Genevie holds a M.Sc. in Health Inequalities and Public Policy from the University of Edinburgh and a B.A in Psychology and Anthropology from the University of Mumbai.

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Lois King is a PhD student with the Global Health Research Unit on Respiratory Health in Asia (RESPIRE) at the University of Edinburgh. She holds a Master in Public Health (MPH) and a BSc in Biomedical Sciences. Her research interests are global governance, health systems and health financing. Her PhD project is looking at the governance of childhood pneumonia in Bangladesh to better understand how we perceive and measure neglect in global health.

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Lorna Thompson is the Research Project Administrator. Prior to joining the team she was the Events Administrator for the Law School at Edinburgh University, managed the Research Centre budgets and was the secretary for the Visiting Academics Programme.

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She holds a BA (Hons) in Tourism Management. Lorna looks after the general administration of the project and all enquiries should be directed to her in the first instance.

Ross first discovered a passion for global health whilst studying for his BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Sciences at The University of Edinburgh. A key area of interest was the translation of laboratory-based research to applications in the field, with particular emphasis on Neglected Tropical Diseases. This inspired him to take the next step and pursue post-graduate study with an international outlook. Now undertaking his PhD, Ross’s research focusses on Sleeping Sickness in Uganda, specifically the roles humans and cattle play as important reservoirs of infection.

Ross is delighted to be joining the GHGP Team to assist with the organisation of The Healthy and Sustainable Futures Exhibition.

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Jonathan is a medical student at the University of Edinburgh. His research currently focuses on elucidating the funding ecosystem surrounding the production, procurement and synthesis of global health data, with particular interest in the relevant activities of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Joey is a medical student at the University of Edinburgh and is currently studying for her MSc in Global Health Policy, hoping to focus her research on global health governance and sustainable healthcare. She has been a research assistance for the GHGP and has helped with the content in the Healthy and Sustainable Future Exhibition in April.

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