I am Professor of Public Health & Sociology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine having previously held professorial appointments at University College London and the University of Oxford. In the Covid-19 pandemic, I advised the UK government and WHO in relation to schools and young people, and in communications strategies. I sit on the Department for Education Science Advisory Council. I am the author of the following books:

Toxic Education: How Schools are Damaging Young People's Health and Wellbeing and How We Can Fix Them. Policy Press. https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/toxic-education 

Realist Trials and Systematic Reviews: Rigorous, Useful Evidence for Health Policy. Cambridge University Press (with G.J. Melendez-Torres and Emily Warren). https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/realist-trials-and-systematic-revi…;