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
+44 114 222 0872
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School of Medicine and Population Health
2037, 2nd Floor
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
- Profile
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I joined the Section of Public Health in ScHARR in February 2008 and am a Professor of Public Health. Alongside my academic role, I am the Regional Deputy Director for Health Protection with UKHSA Yorkshire and the Humber. I am also the editor-in-chief of Public Health, a journal of the Royal Society for Public Health. I was previously a founding co-editor-in-chief of the journal Public Health in Practice.
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, and as a humanitarian aid worker in various disaster zones.
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.
- Research interests
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My research interests are health protection (disaster response and emergency planning, control of communicable diseases), international health and health service management. My current and previous research projects include:
- 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 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 COVID-19 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 COVID-19.
- MRC HSRI funded study. The impact of federalisation on Nepal's health system: a longitudinal analysis (MR/T023554/1). Apr 2020 – Mar 2023
- Publications
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- Research group
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Current PhD/MD Students
Dr Omnia Elnawawy
Jeffrey Tochkin
Dr Anju Vaidya
Pitak Benjarattanaporn
- Teaching interests
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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.
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
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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.