Virginia Murray

Professor Virginia Murray is the Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction for Public Health England where her roles include co-chair of the recently developed WHO Thematic Platform Health and Disaster Risk Management Research Network, member of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) scientific committee, co-sponsored by the International Science Council (ISC) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).and Co-Chair of IRDR 's Disaster Loss Data (DATA). She is also Co-Chair of CODATA 's Linked Open Data for Global Disaster Risk Research and a member the UNSDSN Data for Sustainable Development, and she has been a member and then vice-chair of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) Scientific and Technical Advisory Group from 2008-2017. She is a Visiting/Honorary Professor at several universities including University College London (2013) and at the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (2017) and has published widely.