Dr. Mark Salter
Consultant in Global Health and Senior Medical Advisor
Public Health England
Dr Salter has over 40 years of experience of working on global health security issues. He currently works for Public Health England (PHE) establishing bilateral and multilateral links with partners as well as strengthening public health capacities and capabilities and moving towards the establishment of Public Health Institutes.
Mark has extensive experience of public health systems development, disease control, emergency planning, resilience and response and CBRNe having worked during outbreaks and incidents in: Central America (dengue haemorrhagic fever, measles, and cholera), Africa (Lassa, SARS, EVD, post-conflict) and Asia (MERS, SARS, H5N1, and flooding response). In In the last 5 years he has worked across the EMR to enhance capabilities and capacities to respond to CBRN events, especially in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and the Gulf States. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 he has been supporting the development and implementation of public health measures in England and across the EMR.
Mark has worked on elements mass gathering medicine for more than 10 years and was one of the initiators of the first WHO collaborating Centre for mass gatherings at PHE. He has recently been appointed by the WHO, Director General to sit on the Review Committee on the Functioning of the IHR during the COVID-19 Response and chairs the Alert subcommittee.