Biography
Dr Samuel Boland is a Leland Foundation Association of Marshall Scholars Transatlantic Academy Fellow. Samuel’s research at Chatham House is affiliated with the Global Health Programme, where he analyses global health systems’ adaptation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a view to identifying strategies for most effectively realizing universal health reforms.
Samuel’s background is as a public health practitioner and researcher specializing in health policy, humanitarian intervention, and public health emergency response. He has previously focused on coordination, incident management, and surveillance systems across numerous disease outbreak contexts including Ebola and COVID-19.
Therein, Samuel has worked for and across the academic, policy, (I)NGO, and UN system. He also has a background in civil-military studies related to public health emergency response. Samuel received his doctorate in Public Health and Policy from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and his BA in Public Policy from The University of Chicago. He is a Truman and Marshall scholar.
Past experience
| 2016-22 | PhD Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| 2019-22 | Principal Investigator, Brown University (Jordan, Syria, Philippines) |
| 2020-21 | Global Public Health and COVID-19 Advisor, Mercy Corps |
| 2019 | Ebola Coordination, Leadership, and Operational Advisor, UK-Med (Rwanda) |
| 2018-19 | Ebola Programme Management Officer, World Health Organization (DRC) |
| 2017 | Consultant, The Royal Institute for International Affairs |
| 2012-16 | BA Public Policy, The University of Chicago |
| 2014-15 | Ebola Surveillance Advisor, GOAL Global (Sierra Leone) |
| 2011-14 | Programme and Country Coordinator, Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Global Health and Human Rights (South Sudan and Kenya) |