COVID-19 Series: What is the current and future shape of pandemic management in the UK? Episode 103

Samia currently works as a Consultant in Communicable Disease Control (CCDC) at UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). Samia is the Assistant Academic Registrar for UK’s FPH and a member of the Faculty’s Global Health Committee and following Special Interest Groups: Pakistan, Public Mental Health, Diversity & Equality and Global Violence Prevention. She also co-chairs UKHSA’s Race Equality staff network.
Samia is a GMC appraiser, an educational supervisor and an accredited mentor. Her areas of interest are health protection, culturally intelligent leadership, global public health and public mental health. She is a keen advocate for gender and race equality and is the UK Diaspora Lead for Women in Global Health Pakistan.

In October 2021 Susan became Clinical & Public Health Transition Lead and the Chief Medical Advisor for UKHSA. Previously she was the Interim Chief Medical Advisor at NHS Test and Trace and the Strategic Response Director for COVID-19 in PHE and led the division of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance.

She was appointed in 2006 as a consultant in infectious diseases and microbiology at the Royal Free London and continues to practice clinically. She holds current research funding of approximately £20million with research partners across the UK and has more than 250 peer-reviewed publications related to infectious diseases.