Sally Sheard

Sally Sheard is Executive Dean of the Institute of Population Health at the University of Liverpool, where she also holds the Andrew Geddes and John Rankin Chair of Modern History. Her research focuses on the interface between expert advisers and policymakers in the UK and international organisations.

Between 2015 and 2023 Sally was a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, leading the project: The Governance of Health: medical, economic and managerial expertise in Britain since 1948. She has extensive experience of using history in public and policy engagement, working with local health authorities and government organisations to provide historical context for contemporary health policy issues. She also has written for and appeared in television and radio programmes, including her twenty part BBC Radio 4 series, National Health Stories.