Professor Jonathan Van-Tam

Biography

Professor Jonathan Van-Tam was Deputy Chief Medical Officer from October 2017 to March 2022. He led on health protection.

Career highlights:

• Clinical experience in emergency medicine, anaesthesia, general medicine and infectious diseases
• Clinical academic training in public health medicine
• Became Clinical Senior Lecturer at Nottingham in 1997
• Worked in the pharmaceutical and vaccines industries from 2000 (SmithKline Beecham 2000 to 2001, Roche Products Ltd 2001 to 2002 and Sanofi-Pasteur MSD 2002 to 2004)
• Became Consultant Epidemiologist and Head of the Pandemic Influenza Office at the UK Health Protection Agency in 2004
• Returned to Nottingham in 2007 as Clinical Professor of Health Protection
• Consultant to the World Health Organization on influenza since 2004
• Sat on the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) during the 2009 to 2010 pandemic crisis and afterwards
• Chair of UK New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threat Advisory Group (NERVTAG), 2014 to 2017