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UK Science, Research and Technology Capability and Influence in Global Disease Outbreaks

Inquiry by the Science and Technology Committee (Commons), 20 March 2020 to 16 November 2022. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 25 March 2020: Professor Neil Ferguson, MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College London; Dr Richard Horton, The Lancet Panel; Dr Melanie Saville, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations; Professor Andrew Pollard, University of Oxford; Sir Patrick Vallance, The Government Chief Scientific Adviser; Professor Sharon Peacock, Public Health England
  • 8 April 2020: witnesses not listed
  • 16 April 2020: Professor Graham Medley, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Dr James Rubin, Kings College London; Professor Xihong Lin, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor Dr. Clemens Fuest, German Institute for Economic Research; Professor Dr. Herwig Ostermann, Austrian Public Health Institute
  • 24 April 2020: Dr Frank Atherton, Chief Medical Officer for Wales; Dr Michael McBride, Chief Medical Officer for Northern Ireland; Dr Gregor Smith, Interim Chief Medical Officer for Scotland; Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England, Department of Health and Social Care
  • 28 April 2020: Professor Danny Altmann, Imperial College London; Professor Danny Altmann, British Society for Immunology; Professor Susan Michie, University College London; Matthew Gould CMG MBE, NHSX; Professor Lilian Edwards, Newcastle Law School; Professor Christophe Fraser, University of Oxford Big Data Institute
  • 7 May 2020: Professor Sir Ian Diamond, National Statistician; Professor John Edmunds OBE, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Professor David Peters, John Hopkins University; Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge
  • 13 May 2020: Professor Alan Penn, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; Osama Rahman, Department for Education; Professor Phil Blythe, Department for Transport; Professor John Aston, Home Office
  • 22 May 2020: Professor Yvonne Doyle, Public Health England; Professor John Newton, Public Health England; Professor Andrew Curran, Health and Safety Executive; Professor Catherine Noakes, University of Leeds
  • 5 June 2020: Professor Carol Propper, Imperial College London; Professor John Kay, St John's College, University of Oxford; Professor James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor John Loughhead, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Philip Duffy, Her Majesty's Treasury
  • 10 June 2020: Professor Mark Woolhouse OBE, University of Edinburgh; Professor Johan Giesecke, Karolinska Institute; Professor Neil Ferguson OBE, Imperial College London; Professor Matt Keeling, University of Warwick; Dr Nicholas Davies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • 1 July 2020: Professor Sarah Gilbert, University of Oxford; Kate Bingham, UK Government Vaccine Taskforce; Professor Sir John Bell, University of Oxford; Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, Department for Health and Social Care; Dr Jonathan Sheffield, University of Central Lancashire
  • 16 July 2020: Sir Patrick Vallance, Government Chief Scientific Adviser
  • 21 July 2020: Matt Hancock, Department for Health and Social Care; Sir Chris Wormald, Department for Health and Social Care
  • 17 September 2020: Professor Carl Heneghan, University of Oxford; Professor Sylvia Richardson, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge; Dr Thomas Waite, Joint Biosecurity Centre; Dr Susan Hopkins, NHS Test and Trace; Simon Thompson, NHS Test and Trace; Baroness Harding of Winscombe, National Institute for Health Protection; Lord Bethell, Department for Health and Social Care
  • 3 November 2020: Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England; Sir Patrick Vallance, Government Chief Scientific Adviser
  • 23 December 2020: Professor Neil Ferguson OBE, Imperial College London; Professor Peter Horby, New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG); Professor Wendy Barclay, Imperial College London
  • 13 January 2021: Professor Wei Shen Lim, Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation; Dr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England; Sir Mene Pangalos, AstraZeneca; Tom Keith-Roach, AstraZeneca UK; Nadhim Zahawi, Department for Health and Social Care; Antonia Williams, Department for Health and Social Care
  • 27 January 2021: Greg Fell, Sheffield City Council; Dr Richard Harling MBE, Staffordshire County Council
  • 3 February 2021: Baroness Harding of Winscombe, National Institute for Health Protection; Mark Hewlett, NHS Test and Trace; Steve McManus, NHS Test and Trace
  • 17 February 2021: Professor Dame Angela McLean, University of Oxford; Professor Dame Angela McLean, Ministry of Defence; Professor Mark Woolhouse OBE, University of Edinburgh; Dr James Rubin, Kings College London; Professor Sir John Bell, Oxford University; James Hetherington, Joint Biosecurity Centre; Dr Johanna Hutchinson, Joint Biosecurity Centre
  • 24 February 2021: Professor Anthony Harnden, University of Oxford; Professor Wendy Barclay, Imperial College London; Dr Philip Dormitzer, Pfizer; Professor Sarah Gilbert, University of Oxford; Madelaine McTernan, UK Vaccine Taskforce; Nadhim Zahawi, Department for Health and Social Care
  • 9 March 2021: Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England; Sir Patrick Vallance, Government Chief Scientific Adviser
  • 28 April 2021: Professor John Aston, University of Cambridge; Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed, Commission on Human Medicines; Professor Anthony Harnden, Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation; Dr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England; Dr Ruth Payne, University of Sheffield; Professor Christopher Dye, University of Oxford; Professor Ran Balicer, Clalit Research Institute; Professor Ran Balicer, Ben-Gurion University
  • 16 June 2021: Professor Wendy Barclay, Imperial College London; Dr Susan Hopkins, Public Health England; Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, University of Oxford; Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, Oxford Vaccine Group
  • 26 October 2021: Professor Andrew Curran, Health and Safety Executive; Professor Mario Mondelli, University of Pavia; Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, University of Oxford; Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, Oxford Vaccine Group; Dr Sharon Alroy-Preis, Public Health Services, Israel; Professor Sir Stephen Holgate, The University of Southampton; Professor Lucy Chappell, Department for Health and Social Care; Dr Thomas Waite, Department for Health and Social Care
  • 14 December 2021: Dame Kate Bingham, UK Vaccine Taskforce; Dr Angelique Coetzee, South African Medical Association; Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation; Moderna; UK Health Security Agency; UK Health Security Agency
  • 2 March 2022: Dr Sarah Scobie, Nuffield Trust; Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation; Professor Graham Medley, Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M).; Dr Raghib Ali, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge; Dr Camilla Holten-Møller, Statens Serum Institut, Denmark
  • 30 March 2022: Professor Ann John, Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (SPI-B).