Jonathan S. Nguyen-Van-Tam

In September 2019 Professor Jonathan Van-Tam was appointed as the new Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England.

"Jonathan Van-Tam graduated in Medicine from the University of Nottingham in 1987 and after gaining clinical experience, underwent formal training in academic public health medicine in the UK. He became a Senior Lecturer at the University of Nottingham in 1997, before joining the pharmaceutical industry as an Associate Director at SmithKline Beecham, then Head of Medical Affairs at Roche, and finally UK Medical Director at Aventis Pasteur MSD. He moved to the UK Health Protection Agency in 2004, where he was Head of the Pandemic Influenza Office, and returned to Nottingham in late 2007 as Professor of Health Protection, maintaining throughout his special interest in influenza: epidemiology; transmission; vaccinology; and pandemic preparedness which now spans over 22 years. He has published 110 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and is co-Editor of the textbook: Introduction to Pandemic Influenza, now in second edition. He has been a consultant to the World Health Organization since 2004. He sits on the UK Scientific Pandemic Influenza Committee (SPI), and sat on the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) during the 2009-10 pandemic crisis. His unit is an official WHO Collaborating Centre for pandemic influenza and research, a UK Faculty of Public Health “national treasure” training location and a Public Health England Field Epidemiology training centre."

• 2004 to 2007: Head of the Pandemic Influenza Office at the UK Health Protection Agency
• 2005 to 2009: part of the UK national Scientific Pandemic Influenza Committee (SPI)
• 2007 to 2017: consultant to the World Health Organization on influenza
• 2007 to date: Professor of Health Protection at the University of Nottingham
• 2009 to 2010: part of the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) during the influenza pandemic
• 2010 to 2017: leader of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Pandemic Influenza and Research
• 2013 to 2017: Editor-in-Chief of Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
• 2014 to 2017: Chair of the UK Government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threat Advisory Group (NERVTAG). [1]

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