The Post Graduate Diploma in Global Health Research is guided by a dedicated team of academics, lecturers, tutors, and administrative staff. Each member is committed to delivering the course with professionalism, convenience, and excellence.
ACADEMIC TEAM
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Professor Trudie Lang Head of The Global Health Network 
Trudie Lang is Professor of Global Health Research; Head of The Global Health Network and Senior Research Scientist in Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine. She has over 20 years’ experience in running clinical trials, including trials in the developing world, for the pharmaceutical industry, the World Health Organisation and in academia. Trudie focuses on combating diseases of poverty through the generation of high-quality evidence. She has worked in industry, academia and UN organisations. With her team and partners, she works to drive better health outcomes in vulnerable communities by enabling local leadership and ground-up implementation of high-quality health research studies. Within the University of Oxford, she devised and leads The Global Health Network which is a major international collaborative enterprise that sets out to improve health by improving research. |
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Dr Elizabeth Allen Course Director 
Elizabeth is a pharmacist by background with an MPH and PhD Clinical Pharmacology. She worked in the UK and South African pharmaceutical industries, then academic clinical research, leading operations for the University of Cape Town’s MRC Collaborating Centre for Optimising Antimalarial Therapy, overseeing all types of clinical studies and methodology research. Until recently she was Strategic Partnerships Lead for The Global Health Network, contributing to enabling equity in health research by improving methods, building careers and sharing knowledge. In other roles, she has managed the Southern African Regional Centre for the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory, working on individual patient data meta-analyses and capacity for equitable data sharing. She is co-lead for the UK MRC-NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership Global Health Working Group, is on the International Scientific Committee for VolREthics, an initiative proposing good practices to protect healthy volunteers in research, and she teaches and supervises post-graduate students in pharmacovigilance and trial conduct. |
ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM
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Lauren Whelan - Lauren.whelan@ndm.ox.ac.uk Course Coordinator  |
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Graham Cockerill - pgdip-ghr@ndm.ox.ac.uk Academic Programme Officer |