Prof. David McCoy Queen Mary University of London, UK

David McCoy is Professor of Global Public Health at the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health at Queen Mary University London. He qualified as a medical doctor from Southampton University and spent six years as a clinician in the UK and South Africa, before entering a career in public... read morehealth. He spent a further seven years in South Africa with the University of Cape Town and the Health Systems Trust, an NGO established to support the post-apartheid transformation of South Africa’s health care system. Since returning to the UK, he has worked across the NGO sector (with Aidspan and Medact), academia (University College London) and the NHS (Director of Public Health in Hammersmith and Fulham). He has a doctorate from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and is a member of the Steering Council of the Peoples Health Movement, and a Trustee of the Centre for Health in the Public Interest.