Professor Dame Sally Davies is Chair of The Trinity Challenge and a longstanding advocate for AMR. She was appointed as the UK Government’s Special Envoy on AMR in 2019 (through Summer 2026), and served as the 40th Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University, until September 2026. Dame Sally was the Chief Medical Officer for England and Senior Medical Advisor to the UK Government from 2010-2019. She has become a leading figure in global health including serving as a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Executive Board 2014-2016. Most recently, Dame Sally was appointed to the UN Global Leaders Group 2020 to 2025 having previously been a co-convener of the United Nations Inter-Agency Co-ordination Group (IACG) on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) reporting in 2019, set up in response to the AMR declaration made at UNGA 2016. In 2006 she founded the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) and was the Inaugural Director, until 2016. In 2013 she established and became a Non-Executive Director of Genomics England Ltd (GEL) which sequenced 100,000 whole genomes of NHS patients. In the 2020 New Year Honours, Dame Sally became the second woman (and the first outside the Royal family) to be appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) for services to public health and research, having received her DBE in 2009. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society.
