INDEPENDENT SAGE - Key Persons


Ann Phoenix

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Psychosocial Studies at the Thomas Coram Research Unit
Ann Phoenix is Professor of Psychosocial Studies at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education. Her research focusses on racialised and gendered identities, family lives and home, migration and transnational families.

Bob Hawkins

Bob Hawkins has been helping produce charts and source data for the weekly presentations since November 2020. His help each week is invaluable.

Dr Alison Pittard

Job Titles:
  • Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Dean Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine ( May 2020 )

Dr Binita Kane

Job Titles:
  • Consultant Respiratory Physician, Honorary Senior Lecturer at University of Manchester School of Biomedical Sciences, Respiratory Programme Lead at Health Innovation Manchester

Dr Deepti Gurdasani

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Epidemiologist and Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning at Queen Mary University of London ( April 2022 - May 2022 )
Sir David Anthony King Former Government CSA; founder and Chair, Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge; Senior Strategy Adviser to the President of Rwanda; Chair of Independent SAGE (May 2020 - August 2021) - Founding Chair of Independent SAGE

Dr Helen Salisbury

Job Titles:
  • General Practitioner
  • Senior Medical Education Fellow
Professor Christina Pagel (May 2020 - ) Professor of Operational Research (branch of applied mathematics), Director of the Clinical Operational Research Unit & co-Director of the UCL CHIMERA hub, University College London Professor Stephen Reicher (June 2020 - ) Professor of Social Psychology at the University of St Andrews, participant in SPI(B), SAGE sub-committee Dr Helen Salisbury (August 2021 - ) General Practitioner (GP) and Senior Medical Education Fellow at the Department of Primary Care, Oxford University

Dr Lennard Lee

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor and Medical Oncology Consultant, University of Oxford

Dr Zubaida Haque

Former Executive Director, The Equality Trust. Dr Haque is also a Commissioner on the Hamilton Commission.

Elizabeth Stokoe

Job Titles:
  • Professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural
Elizabeth Stokoe is Professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at The London School of Economics and Political Science. She is an expert in conversation analysis. She participates in the Policing and Security subgroup of SPI-B (SAGE).

Imran Awan

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Criminology
Imran Awan is Professor of Criminology and an expert on tackling victimisation against BAME communities and the effects of violent crime in society.

John Drury

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Social Psychology at the University
John Drury is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Sussex specialising in research on collective behaviour including behaviour in emergencies. He is a participant in SPI-B (SAGE).

Laura Bear

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics
Laura Bear is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Her current research focusses on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on vulnerable communities. She is a participant in SPI-B (SAGE).

Linda Bauld

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Public Health at the University
Linda Bauld is Professor of Public Health at the University of Edinburgh. She specialises in public health policy and the evaluation of behavioural interventions. She serves as adviser to the Covid-19 Committee of the Scottish Parliament.

Prof Steve Griffin

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Virology, University of Leeds

Prof Susan Michie

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Health Psychology
Susan Michie is Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change, University College London. Her research focuses on behaviour change in relation to health and the environment. She is a participant in SPI-B (SAGE).

Robert West

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Professor of Health Psychology at University College London
Robert West is Emeritus Professor of Health Psychology at University College London. He specialises in addiction and behaviour change. He is a participant in SPI-B (SAGE).

Stephen Reicher

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Psychology at the University
Stephen Reicher is Professor of Psychology at the University of St. Andrews. His work addresses group processes, leadership, influence and collective action. He is a participant in SPI-B (SAGE) and in the Advisory Group to the Scottish Chief Medical Officer on Covid-19.

Val Curtis

Val Curtis was Professor of Hygiene and Director of the Environmental Health Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She was an evolutionary anthropologist specialising in hygiene behaviour globally. She was a participant in SPI-B.