Dr Sharif Ismail
BA MBBS MPhil MPH
Research Fellow
LSHTM
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom
I am a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellow at the School, and a Specialist Registrar in Public Health in London. I divide my time between academic research and service public health work, previously as a Health Adviser at the then UK Department for International Development (DFID), and most recently with the National Infection Service at Public Health England (PHE).
Before qualifying in medicine, I worked in policy analysis for RAND Europe, the Institute for Government, and the Nuffield Trust.
Affiliations
Teaching
I help to deliver the Issues in Public Health and Principles and Practice of Public Health modules as part of the MSc in Public Health at the School. I also contribute to the distance learning MSc module, Control of Infectious Diseases (IDM104).
Research
My research interests are broad, spanning communicable disease epidemiology, health services research, and health policy and systems research (HPSR), and use mixed-methods approaches. I have a particular interest currently in improving understanding of health system shocks and resilience, specifically how we think about these concepts, and ways in which resilience can be assessed and/or measured. The main focuses for this work are:
1. Communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control - particularly vaccination delivery
2. Health workforce regulation, training and development
3. The political economy of health policymaking and implementation.