Professor Davies is the Department of Health for England’s National Director of Pandemic Influenza Preparedness.
She is one of the most senior doctors in the Department of Health and has national responsibilities for policy development and implementation .
A qualified doctor, Professor Davies has had a varied and distinguished career in health service and public health management and development in the NHS and the civil service, since first becoming a board level director in the NHS in 1985.
She holds a Special Professorship in Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology at Nottingham University.