International Best Practice Advisory Group
The International Best Practice Advisory Group (IBPAG) provides expert input and challenge to analysis on international responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Purpose
The IBPAG helps assess responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by comparator countries in order to inform the policymaking of Her Majesty’s Government (HMG).
IBPAG advice is generally required on:
- improving the quantitative analytics underpinning HMG analysis
- clarifying technical concepts or processes and their significance to analysis
- making recommendations on how to enhance the quality of analysis
- suggesting ways to improve monitoring, forecasting and assessment by examining indicators, sources and assumptions
Membership
IBPAG membership is drawn from leading experts in the fields of health, public policy, science and economics. The group is jointly chaired by the Cabinet Office and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
Current members include:
- Ewan Birney: Deputy Director General of EMBL, Director of EMBL-EBI - European Molecular Biology Laboratory
- Adam Kucharski: Associate Professor in Epidemiology - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Sylvia Richardson: Chair in Biostatistics, Director of MRC Biostatistics Unit - University of Cambridge
- Thomas Hale: Associate Professor in Global Public Policy - University of Oxford
- Vittal Katikireddi: Clinical Senior Research Fellow - University of Glasgow
- Aditya Goenka: Chair in Economics - University of Birmingham
- Nick Pidgeon: Director of Understanding Risk Research Group - Cardiff University
- John Watkins: Public Health Wales - Consultant Epidemiologist
- Sarah Jones: Research Fellow - Imperial College London
- Ann-Louise Caress: Professor of Health Services Research - University of Huddersfield
- Katharina Hauck: Reader in Health Economics - Imperial College London
- Jim McMenamin: Health Protection Scotland - Consultant Epidemiologist
- Paul Jackson: Invesco - Global Head of Asset Allocation Research
- Mark Jit: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - Professor of Modelling and Economics
- Tim Evans: Middlesex University London - Professor of Business and Political Economy
- Margarita Gómez: University of Oxford - Director of the People in Government Lab
- Max Roser: University of Oxford - Director of Global Development Centre
- Andrew Morris: University of Edinburgh - Chair of Data Science
- Devi Sridhar: University of Edinburgh – Chair of Global Public Health
- Ragnar Löfstedt: King’s College London – Director of Centre for Risk Management
- Gerardo Meléndez-Torres: University of Exeter – Professor of Clinical and Social Epidemiology
- Kevin Fenton: Public Health England - Director of Health and Wellbeing
- Tarani Chandola: University of Manchester – Professor of Medical Sociology
- Atiya Kamal: Birmingham City University - Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology
- Fiona Andrewartha: Nottingham University Hospitals – Clinical Microbiology Consultant
- Wei Shen Lim: Nottingham University Hospitals - Consultant Respiratory Physician
- Declan Bradley: Public Health Agency, Northern Ireland - Consultant in Public Health Medicine
- Annemarie Docherty: University of Edinburgh - Honorary Consultant in Critical Care
- Adelina Comas-Herrera: London School Economics and Political Science – Assistant Professorial Research Fellow
- Mark Birkin: University of Leeds - Professor of Spatial Analysis and Policy
- Robin Grimes: Chief Scientific Adviser Nuclear - Ministry of Defence
- Rob Harrison: Director General Analysis - Cabinet Office
- Carole Mundell: Chief International Science Envoy - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Chris Lewis: Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of Health Profession - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office