Interim Programme Director for the UKHSA Harlow Programme and UKHSA's Central Performance and Programme Portfolio

Policy Fellow, Centre for Science and Policy

Jamie is accountable in his current role for setting the strategic direction for vaccine operations, providing accurate and relevant operational data, maintaining robust governance and compliance, and promoting best practices with a focus on quality. He is also responsible for Immform’s business operations, helping ensure frontline services receive vaccines when and where they’re needed, alongside the data collection and reporting to track vaccine uptake. Jamie previously served as Interim Programme Director for the Science Hub and Central Performance. In this role he aligned the Science Hub’s long-term vision with ministerial priorities and leading the organisational redesign that secured the governance, expertise, and funding for implementation. He was also responsible for the creation and delivery of a performance regime that brings together the strategic priorities and policies of the Agency, so that UKHSA builds on the lessons learnt from the pandemic and has the contingency plans in place to respond effectively to future health security threats.

Before this, Jamie was Director of Testing Operations, accountable for engagement with - and the delivery of - Covid-19 testing operations across the Devolved Administrations. Jamie’s career has progressed within a wide range of sectors, starting as a qualified lawyer, before working on counter-terrorism policy for the United Nations, and then leading policy across a variety of Government departments, including before joining UKHSA, fuel poverty and energy security at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, civil contingencies and estate policy at the Cabinet Office, and leading the delivery of a number of high-profile projects across Parliament while head of Government Services at Lendlease Consultancy. He has a BA Hons in Politics and an MA in Law from the University of Sheffield, and a LLM in Public International Law from the University of Nottingham.