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David Heymann is currently Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at LSHTM and Head of the Center for Global Health Security at Chatham House in London. From 2012 to March 2017, Heymann was chairman of Public Health England. He currently chairs the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group on Infectious Hazards, the external advisory group to WHO's Emergencies Programme, which is leading the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For 22 years, David Heymann was associated with the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva on secondment from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he went from head of research for the global program on AIDS to founding director of the program on emerging and communicable diseases. Subsequently, he was appointed Executive Director of the Communicable Diseases Cluster, a position from which he led the global response to SARS. Accordingly, he was appointed Assistant Director for Health Security and Director-General's Representative for Polio Eradication. Before joining the WHO, David Heymann was based for 13 years in Africa. During this period, he was part of the research into the first, second and third outbreaks of Ebola in the DRC. He also investigated human monkeypox outbreaks throughout Central and West Africa and supported the Ministry of Health in field studies aimed at controlling malaria, measles, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. In addition, before joining the CDC, Heymann worked in India for two years as a medical epidemiologist in the WHO smallpox eradication program. Heymann is also a fellow of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (US) and the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK) and has received seven different public health awards, including the Heinz Award for the Human Condition, which has provided funding to establish an ongoing mentoring program at the International Association of Public Health Institutes (IANPHI). David Heymann has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and is the editor of the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, an important global body for public health and health protection. In recognition of his outstanding work, he was made an Honorary Commander and recipient of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2009 for his work in global public health.