Head of Secretariat, UN NCD Taskforce
Previously, Nick was Head of Global Affairs at the Department of Health in England where he led the development and implementation of the UK Government’s first-ever global health strategy. Before that, he headed up the UK Department for International Development’s work on global health partnership and scaling up health services. Prior to this, Nick led DFID’s health and education programming to Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East. Nick has experience of the non-governmental sector, having worked with the UK aid agency Merlin on a number of humanitarian and development programmes.
Nick trained in paediatrics and infectious diseases before doing public health and epidemiologic research in the East End of London and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Nick has held senior posts in UK public health, where his portfolios included cardiovascular disease, diabetes, breast and cervical cancer screening, and clinical governance. Nick has sat on government, non-government and academic boards, as well as national and international committees. He has undertaken consultancies for a number of agencies including the World Bank.
