The Strategic Advisory Board meet annually and provide independent advice on the scientific direction and research priorities of the Centre, as well as on our wide engagement activities.

Chair

• Professor Gabriel Leung
  Executive Director (Charities & Communities), Hong Kong Jockey Club; Honorary Professor, University of Hong Kong.

Observer

• Dr Claire De May 
  UKRI, Medical Research Council.

Members

• Professor Soumya Swaminathan
  Chair, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India and former Chief Scientist, World Health Organization.
• Professor Juliet Pulliam 
  Director, DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis SACEMA, South Africa.
• Professor John Amuasi
  Professor of Global One Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana & Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine & University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany.
• Professor Christine Carrington
  Professor of Molecular Genetics and Virology, Head of Department of Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago.
• Professor Simon Cauchemez
  Head of the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.