Prof Dame Sally Davies
Biography
Dame Sally is the Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance for the United Kingdom. Previously, Dame Sally was Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government (2011- 2019). In this role, she founded the National Institute for Health Research, and served on the World Health Organization Executive Board.
Dame Sally has brought AMR to the forefront of the global health dialogue, including as a co-convener of the UN Interagency Coordination Group on AMR. She brought together experts and leaders from different regions, sectors and disciplines to recommend actions to accelerate global action on AMR.
Dame Sally was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014 and a member of the National Academy of Medicine, USA in 2015.
In the 2020 New Year Honours, Dame Sally became the second woman (and the first outside the Royal Family) to be appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) for services to public health and research.