Professor Andrew Lee

MB ChB MSc (Dist) MRCGP MFPH FHEA FRSPH DCH DTM&H DLSHTM CILT

School of Medicine and Population Health

Professor of Public Health

Andrew Lee
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andrew.lee@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 0872
+44 114 222 0749 (Fax)
2037, 2nd Floor, Regent Court (ScHARR)

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Professor Andrew Lee
School of Medicine and Population Health
2037, 2nd Floor
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Profile

I joined the School of Medicine and Population Health in February 2008 and am a Professor of Public Health.

I qualified in medicine from the University of Edinburgh. Following paediatric and tropical medicine training, I then worked overseas running primary health care and tuberculosis control programmes in Afghanistan, as well as in various disaster zones as a humanitarian aid worker. 

I am dual trained in general practice and public health in the UK and have previously worked as a Public Health Consultant in Nottingham City, as a director of primary care and population health with the NHS, and as a Consultant in Communicable Disease Control with the Health Protection Agency, Public Health England and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). I was previously a Senior Consultant in Global Health with the UKHSA International Health Regulations (IHR) Strengthening Project, and was also the Regional Deputy Director for Health Protection with UKHSA Yorkshire and the Humber. 

Currently, I am the Editor-in-Chief for Public Health, a journal of the Royal Society for Public Health, and was the founding Co-Editor in Chief for the journal Public Health in Practice. I am a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Santé Publique France.

Research interests

My research interests are in the field of health protection (disaster response and emergency planning, control of communicable diseases), international health as well as health service management.  My current and previous research projects include

  • Technical lead with the International Association of National Public Health Institutes on the Gates Funded Global Health Emergency Corps Project. 2024-2026.
  • DHSC-EPSRC grant (EP/Y009894/1): UK-South East Asia Vaccine Manufacturing Research Hub. Nov 2023-Mar 2028.
  • NIHR funded study (Ref NIHR202310): Evaluation of the implementation of pandemic preparedness plans during COVID-19 at the interface with infection prevention and control services in acute and community care. Nov 2020 - 2023. 
  • PHE funded study: Evidence review of the population health role of ambulance services in COVID-19. Dec 2020-2021.
  • PHE funded study: Evidence review for COVID19 Mass testing. May 2020
  • NIHR-funded study (HTA - 11/46/07): The PRIEST Study: Pandemic Respiratory Infection Emergency System Triage. 2012-2022. Activated in 2020 to study COVID19.
  • MRC HSRI funded study. The impact of federalisation on Nepal's health system: a longitudinal analysis (MR/T023554/1). Apr 2020 – Mar 2023
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Research group

Current PhD/MD Students

Dr Omnia Elnawawy

Jeffrey Tochkin

Pitak Benjarattanaporn

Teaching interests

I am keen on teaching and especially on global health issues, humanitarian aid, health service management and communicable disease control. I currently lecture on international health needs assessment, disaster planning and impact evaluation in the Masters Public Health (MPH) course. 

Public Health MPH

Postgraduate taught
  • September 2026 start
  • 1 year 2 years Full-time Part-time
  • Accredited

Develop essential research, evaluation, and analytical skills for leading public health initiatives in the UK and globally. Our APHEA-accredited program helps to prepare you for professional roles in public health and offers a strong foundation for pursuing PhD-level studies.

I developed the modules Communicable Disease Control, and Disaster and Emergency Management. 

In addition, I teach on the undergraduate medical programme, and on the Executive MBA programme at City College, Thessaloniki, Greece.

I have worked as a trainer on orientation courses for relief workers, and delivered training to healthcare workers abroad as well as to health professionals in the UK. I have also delivered senior leadership training abroad with UKHSA’s IHR Strengthening Project.

Professional activities and memberships

I am a trained Executive Coach with Health Education England and an educational supervisor for public health speciality training schemes in Yorkshire and the Humber.  I am a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health, a Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I also carry out a variety of external consultancy work such as training on patient safety and clinical audits, health needs assessments, health equity audits, programme evaluations and impact assessments. I previously conducted external evaluation consultancies for the World Health Organisation in 2015 and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in 2018/2019.  

I was recently a Technical Advisor for the International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI) leading their Integrated Disease Surveillance Research Project. I am currently acting as a Technical Advisor for IANPHI on the Global Health Emergency Corps initiative.