• Rajeka Lazarus

    Rajeka Lazarus

    Rajeka Lazarus is a Consultant in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases based in Bristol. She has been a member of Medact since leaving medical school and in 2016 took it upon herself […]


  • Ciprian Diaconita

    Ciprian Diaconita

    Ciprian Diaconita holds a BSc in Environmental Management from Birkbeck, University of London. He has been involved in campaigning and volunteering for several years on issues related to climate change and […]


  • Josephine Head

    Josephine Head

    Josephine Head is a conservation biologist who originally trained as an Anthropologist at Durham University. Following this, she spent seven years working in the rainforests of Central Africa for the Max […]


  • Elizabeth Atherton

    Elizabeth Atherton

    Elizabeth Atherton studied Nutrition & Dietetics at the University of Surrey, graduating in 2009. Following this she worked as a clinical dietitian in the NHS, specialising in the area of obesity […]


  • Professor David McCoy

    Professor David McCoy

    Professor David McCoy is a public health physician and academic, and former Director of Medact. He spent his first fifteen years working in clinical medicine and health systems development, mostly in […]


  • Professor John Middleton

    Professor John Middleton

    Professor John Middleton is Honorary Professor of Public Heath at Wolverhampton University. He is President of the Faculty of Public Health, the standard setting body for public health professionals in […]


  • Professor Gill Walt

    Professor Gill Walt

    Gill is an Emeritus Professor of International Health Policy situated in the Global Health and Development Department at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Although she has ‘officially’ retired, […]


  • Professor John Yudkin

    Professor John Yudkin

    Professor John Yudkin is a clinical academic with a range of research interests in diabetes, obesity, pharmacoepidemiology and global health. He spent 4 years working in Tanzania as a junior doctor and, […]


  • Professor Sir Iain Chalmers

    Professor Sir Iain Chalmers

    Professor Sir Iain Chalmers practised as a clinician for seven years in the UK and the Gaza Strip, before becoming a full time health services researcher. Between 1978 and 1992 he […]


  • Paul Cotterill

    Paul Cotterill

    Paul Cotterill trained as a nurse, before specialising in ophthalmics. After work in London and Switzerland he spent several years in Bangladesh, India and Tanzania, primarily with aid agency Concern […]


  • Jo Howard

    Jo Howard is a Solicitor in the Public and Regulatory Law team at Bates Wells Braithwaite, the leading charity law firm in the UK. BWB has led on various legal […]