Jonathan Nguyen Van-Tam

Professor Sir Jonathan Stafford Nguyen-Van-Tam (born 2 February 1964) is a British healthcare professional specialising in influenza, including its epidemiology, transmission, vaccinology, antiviral drugs and pandemic preparedness. After hospital work, he was involved variously as a university lecturer and within the pharmaceutical industry. Van-Tam became a Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England on 2 October 2017. He played a very significant part in the UK's response to the covid pandemic which started in 2020 as one of two deputies. In May 2023 he joined Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna as a consultant. Early life Van-Tam was born and grew up in Boston, Lincolnshire. He is partially of Vietnamese descent. He attended Boston Grammar School where his father, Paul Nguyen Van-Tam, was a teacher of Mathematics. He graduated in medicine from the University of Nottingham in 1987. He was awarded bachelor's degrees in Medical Sciences in 1985 and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BM BS) in 1987. He was awarded a Doctorate of Medicine (DM) in 2001 supported by a thesis on epidemiology. Career After five years of hospital-based clinical medicine, Van-Tam pursued academic training in public health and epidemiology and developed an interest in influenza and respiratory viruses, mentored for many years by Professor Karl Nicholson. He became a senior lecturer at the University of Nottingham (and consultant regional epidemiologist, Public Health Laboratory Service) in 1997, before joining the pharmaceutical industry as an associate director at SmithKline Beecham in 2000.