| Sir Patrick Vallance FRS FMedSci FRCP | Government Chief Scientific Adviser |
| Professor Chris Whitty CB FMedSci | Chief Medical Officer |
| Mr Dinesh Aggarwal | University of Cambridge |
| Professor Rebecca Allen | University of Oxford |
| Professor John Aston | Chief Scientific Adviser, Home Office |
| Dr Marc Baguelin | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Imperial College London |
| Professor Charles Bangham | Imperial College London |
| Professor Wendy Barclay FMedSci | Imperial College London |
| Professor Laura Bear | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Professor Jonathan Benger | UWE Bristol |
| Fliss Bennee | Welsh Government |
| Mr Allan Bennett | UK Health Security Agency |
| Professor Phil Blythe | Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Transport |
| Professor Chris Bonnell | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
| Professor Sir Ian Boyd FRSE | University of St Andrews |
| Dr Declan T Bradley FFPH | Department of Health, Northern Ireland Executive |
| Professor Chris Brightling | University of Leicester |
| Professor Peter Bruce FRS | University of Oxford |
| Professor Iain E. Buchan | University of Liverpool |
| Dr Josh Bunce | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Joint Biosecurity Centre |
| Caroline Cake | HDR-UK |
| Professor Doreen Cantrell | University of Dundee |
| Greg Ceely | Office for National Statistics |
| Meera Chand | UK Health Security Agency |
| Professor Lucy Chappell | Chief Scientific Adviser, Department of Health and Social Care |
| Professor Nishi Chaturvedi | University College London |
| Dr Paul Cleary | Department of Health and Social Care |
| Professor Paul Cosford | UK Health Security Agency |
| David Crossman | Chief Scientific Adviser Health, Scottish Government |
| Professor Andrew Curran | Chief Scientific Adviser, Health and Safety Executive |
| Dr Gavin Dabrera | UK Health Security Agency |
| Dr Jeanelle de Gruchy | Deputy Chief Medical Officer |
| Professor Charlotte Deane | UK Research and Innovation |
| Professor Sir Ian Diamond FRSE FBA | National Statistician, Office for National Statistics |
| Dr Annemarie Docherty | University of Edinburgh |
| Professor Yvonne Doyle CB | Medical Director, UK Health Security Agency |
| Professor Deborah Dunn-Walters | University of Surrey |
| Professor Chris Dye | Royal Society |
| Ms Chantal Edge | University College London |
| Professor John Edmunds OBE FMedSci | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
| Dr Rosalind Eggo | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
| Stuart Elborn | Department of Health, Northern Ireland Executive |
| Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar OBE FMedSci FRS | Director, Wellcome Trust |
| Professor Kevin Fenton | UK Health Security Agency |
| Sir Michael Ferguson CBE FRS FRSE FMEDSci FRSB | University of Dundee |
| Professor Neil Ferguson OBE FMedSci | Imperial College London |
| Dr Shaun Fitzgerald FREng | University of Cambridge |
| Professor Julie Fitzpatrick OBE | Chief Scientific Adviser, Scotland |
| Dr Aidan Fowler FRCS | National Health Service England |
| Clare Gardiner | Joint Biosecurity Centre |
| Professor Julia Gog OBE | University of Cambridge |
| Professor Robin Grimes FRS FREng | Chief Scientific Adviser, Ministry of Defence |
| Professor Ravindra Gupta | University of Cambridge |
| Dr Ian Hall | University of Manchester |
| Dr David Halpern | Behavioural Insights Team, Cabinet Office |
| Baroness Dido Harding | NHS Test and Trace Executive Chair |
| Dr Jenny Harries OBE | Chief Executive, UK Health Security Agency |
| Dr Demis Hassabis FRS | Personal capacity as a data scientist |
| Professor Andrew Hayward | University College London |
| Dr Melissa Heightman | University College London Hospitals |
| Professor Gideon Henderson | Chief Scientific Adviser, Defra |
| Dr Jeanelle Louise de Gruchy | Director of Public Health for Tameside |
| Professor Peter Horby | University of Oxford |
| Professor Anne Johnson | University College London |
| Dr Indra Joshi | NHSx |
| Professor Kamlesh Khunti | University of Leicester |
| Dr Ben Killingley | UCLH |
| Professor David Lalloo | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine |
| Professor Janet Lord | University of Birmingham |
| Professor Dame Theresa Marteau FMedSci | University of Cambridge |
| Professor Dame Angela McLean FRS | Chief Scientific Adviser, Ministry of Defence |
| Dr Jim McMenamin | Health Protection Scotland |
| Professor Graham Medley | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
| Dr Laura Merson | University of Oxford |
| Professor Susan Michie FAcSS FMedSci | University College London |
| Professor Christine Middlemiss | Chief Veterinary Officer |
| Professor Andrew Morris FMedSci FRSE | University of Edinburgh |
| Professor Paul Moss | University of Birmingham |
| Professor Carole Mundell | Chief Scientific Adviser, Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Professor Cath Noakes | University of Leeds |
| Dr Rob Orford | Welsh Government |
| Professor Michael Parker | University of Oxford |
| Professor Dame Linda Partridge | University College London |
| Professor Sharon Peacock FMedSci | UK Health Security Agency |
| Professor Alan Penn | Chief Scientific Adviser, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Dr Pasi Penttinen | European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control |
| Professor Guy Poppy | Chief Scientific Adviser, Food Standards Agency |
| Professor Steve Powis FRCP | National Health Service England |
| Dr Mike Prentice | National Health Service England |
| Mr Osama Rahman | Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Education |
| Professor Venki Ramakrishnan PRS | Ex Officio as Chair of DELVE, convened by the Royal Society |
| Professor Andrew Rambaut FRSE | University of Edinburgh |
| Professor Tom Rodden | Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport |
| Professor Brooke Rogers OBE | Kings College London |
| Dr Cathy Roth | Department for International Development |
| David Seymour | HDR-UK |
| Alaster Smith | Department for Education |
| Professor Iyiola Solanke | University of Leeds |
| Dr Nicola Steedman | Scottish Government |
| Dr James Rubin | Kings College London |
| Professor Harry Rutter | University of Bath |
| Professor Calum Semple | University of Liverpool |
| Dr Mike Short CBE | Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for International Trade |
| Dr Gregor Smith | Scottish Government Chief Medical Officer |
| Professor Jonathan Van Tam MBE | Deputy Chief Medical Officer |
| Professor Russell Viner PRCPCH | University College London |
| Professor Charlotte Watts CMG FMedSci | Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for International Development |
| Dr Thomas Waite | Interim Deputy Chief Medical Officer |
| Dr Rhoswyn Walker | HDR-UK |
| Professor Sir Mark Walport FRCP FMedSci FRS | UK Research and Innovation |
| Professor Mark Wilcox | University of Leeds |
| Professor Lucy Yardley FAcSS | University of Bristol and University of Southampton |
| Professor Ian Young | Northern Ireland Executive |
| Professor Maria Zambon FMedSci | UK Health Security Agency |
Sir Patrick Vallance, chief scientific officer
The government’s chief scientific adviser and former president of research and development at GlaxoSmithKline. In the run-up to the EU referendum he warned that a vote for Brexit would mean uncertainty for future drug development.
Prof Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer
A doctor and epidemiologist with an enormous reputation among colleagues, he has devoted much of his career to malaria research in Africa. Previously chief scientific adviser at the Department for International Development and the Department of Health.
Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, deputy chief medical officer
An expert in influenza and respiratory viruses, Van-Tam is a professor of health protection at the University of Nottingham’s school of medicine and sat on Sage during the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England
A professor of renal medicine at University College London, he was the leading voice calling for former health workers to return to the NHS to help deal with the pandemic.
Prof Sharon Peacock, director of the National Infection Service at Public Health England (PHE)
The professor of public health and microbiology at the University of Cambridge department of medicine told MPs on the science and technology committee in March that antibody testing kits would be available for mass testing within days, but the tests failed quality checks.
Maria Zambon, director of Reference Microbiology Services at PHE and head of the UK World Health Organization National Influenza Centre
Zambon is known as a thorough and extremely competent scientist. She is medically qualified and a specialist on RNA viruses, antivirals and vaccines.
Meera Chand, consultant microbiologist at PHE
Chand worked on the UK’s response to the Ebola epidemic and has expertise in infectious diseases including influenza, diphtheria, scarlet fever and monkeypox.
Prof Charlotte Watts, chief scientific adviser to the Department for International Development
Watts is on secondment from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where she is a professor of social and mathematical epidemiology.
Prof John Aston, Home Office chief scientific adviser
A specialist in applied statistics, Aston joined the government in 2017 after stepping down as a trustee of the Alan Turing Institute.
Angela McLean, professor of mathematical biology at Oxford University’s department of zoology
McLean is the government’s deputy chief scientific adviser and chief scientist at the Ministry of Defence. She often speaks at the No 10 press conferences and has said that the number of hospital admissions “is not as bad as it could have been” had lockdown not been put in place.
Ian Diamond, head of the Government Statistical Service and chief executive of the UK Statistics Authority
The nation’s statistician, Diamond prompted an investigation over a £282,000 payment when he stepped down as principal at the University of Aberdeen.
Graham Medley, professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Medley is also chair of the Sage subgroup on pandemic modelling, and director of the centre for the mathematical modelling of infectious diseases. He brings wide expertise not just in modelling but in designing interventions and how political and social factors interact with the spread of epidemics. Medley was one of the first scientists to elaborate on the herd immunity strategy. He told Newsnight he’d like to “put all the more vulnerable people into the north of Scotland … everybody else into Kent and have a nice, big epidemic in Kent, so that everyone becomes immune”.
Neil Ferguson, professor at Imperial College London faculty of medicine
Head of the Imperial College modelling team whose work predicted half a million deaths in Britain and is credited with prompting the government to impose the lockdown.
Prof John Edmunds, specialist in design of control programmes against infectious diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
A leader in disease modelling and analysis, Edmunds warned that Italy’s lockdown might prove unsustainable and has argued against banning exercise outdoors on the grounds that it has a negligible impact on the spread of the disease but benefits for mental health and wellbeing.
James Rubin, reader in psychology of emerging health risks, Kings College London
Rubin has studied how people respond to all manner of perceived health risks, from nuclear meltdowns and the Ebola outbreak to mobile phone signals and novichok nerve agents.
Brooke Rogers, professor of behavioural science and security at Kings College London and chair of the Cabinet Office National Risk Assessment Behavioural Science Advisory Group
Rogers specialises in threat and risk communication, and is a strong advocate of basing interventions on evidence.
Peter Horby, former professor of infectious diseases and global health at University of Oxford and chair of the government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag)
Horby ran Ebola trials in West Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and is now heading up the major Recovery trial into drugs for coronavirus.
Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust
One of the few members of Sage who has made their membership public. Farrar is a medical researcher and former head of Oxford’s clinical research unit in Ho Chi Minh City. He has said Britain is on course to be among the worst, if not the worst, affected country in Europe.
Andrew Rambaut, member of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at Edinburgh University’s school of biological sciences
A leading geneticist who specialises in the evolution of emerging human viruses. His recent work showed that the coronavirus may have spread to humans via pangolins but “clearly” wasn’t created in a lab or purposefully manipulated.
Emma Reed, director of emergency response and health protection at the Department of Health and Social Care
Reed worked on the government’s Ebola response and has coordinated programmes to reduce childhood obesity and diabetes.
Dr Edward Mullins, clinical adviser to the chief medical officer
Mullins is a clinical lecturer at Imperial College and an obstetrics and gynaecology registrar at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea hospital, London. He has previously worked with Dame Sally Davies, England’s former chief medical officer.
Dominic Cummings, chief adviser to the prime minister
Former director of the Vote Leave campaign who famously advertised for “weirdos and misfits with odd skills” to advise government.
Ben Warner, Downing Street adviser on data science
The Vote Leave campaign’s data specialist joined No 10 after running the private election model that predicted the 2019 landslide victory for the Tories.
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