BIOGRAPHY

Prof. Salisbury is an Associate Fellow, Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs and President of the International Association of Immunization Managers Governing Council. Prof. Salisbury was director of immunisation at the Department of Health until the end of 2014. He was the Chairman of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Vaccines from 2005 to 2010, is Chairman of the European Region Certification Commission for Poliomyelitis Eradication, and is a member of Polio Elimination Certification Commissions for two further WHO regions. He chaired the Research & Development group for the Decade of Vaccines and is a member of the Global Vaccine Action Plan SAGE Working Group. He has also had extensive experience in Global Health Security having co-chaired a G7 working group on Pandemic Influenza.Prof. Salisbury trained as a paediatrician in Oxford and London, and is a visiting professor at Imperial College, London and a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He continues to lecture and advise on vaccines and vaccination as well as undertaking ongoing work in polio, malaria and the development of new vaccines. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, 2001 for his services to vaccines and immunization. Prof. Salisbury continues to work extensively with the World Health Organization on the Global Programme for Vaccines.

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