Dr Michael Head BSc (Hons), PGDip, PhD
Senior Research Fellow

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Michael is a Senior Research Fellow in Global Health who started at Southampton in October 2015.
He previously spent 11 years at UCL in the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and the Farr Institute for Health Informatics. He has research interests in research investments analyses, global health, health systems and digital health, with a public health focus on neglected tropical diseases (including scabies and onchocerciasis) and pneumonia. He has communicated extensively with the UK and international media around the COVID-19 outbreak.
Michael graduated from his PhD by published works (Amsterdam Institute in Global Health, University of Amsterdam) in May 2016, and he completed postgraduate study in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and an undergraduate degree in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Portsmouth.
Qualifications
2016 - PhD, The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
2006 - PGDip, Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
2000 - BSc, Biomedical Science, University of Portsmouth
Appointments held
2015- Senior Research Fellow, University of Southampton
2004-2015 – Research associate, University College London