{"id":7125,"date":"2025-07-21T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/?p=7125"},"modified":"2025-08-05T09:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T08:59:23","slug":"nspsp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/nspsp\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean of Medicine to lead national pandemic partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Professor Deborah Williamson, Dean of Medicine, University of St Andrews<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Professor Deborah Williamson<\/a>, Dean of Medicine and Head of the\u00a0<\/span>School of Medicine<\/a>\u00a0has been appointed Co-Director of Public Health Scotland\u2019s newly launched\u00a0<\/span>National Scottish Pandemic Sciences Partnership (NSPSP)<\/a>\u00a0today (Monday 21 July).<\/span><\/p>\n

Hosted by Public Health Scotland and funded by the Scottish Government, the NSPSP will officially operate under the co-leadership of\u00a0<\/span>Professor Williamson and Professor Emma Thomson<\/a>, Director of the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR).<\/p>\n

The establishment of the NSPSP follows recommendations from the Standing Committee on Pandemic Preparedness to strengthen Scotland\u2019s capacity to respond to future pandemics. Through coordinated scientific leadership, robust governance, and strategic collaboration, the Partnership aims to enhance national resilience.<\/p>\n

Professor Williamson\u2019s appointment signals the University of St\u00a0Andrews\u2019 critical role in shaping Scotland\u2019s future pandemic preparedness. With her background as a clinician-scientist and her global network of collaborators, Professor Williamson brings to the role internationally recognised expertise in infectious diseases, microbiology, and public health. Her leadership at St\u00a0Andrews has been marked by research excellence, cross-sector partnerships, and a commitment to tackling health inequalities, key pillars that will inform the NSPSP\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

Professor Williamson said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI am delighted to take up the role of Co-Director of the National Scottish Pandemic Sciences Partnership alongside Professor Emma Thomson. Scotland\u2019s world-class academic expertise, combined with its distinct geography and rurality, offers a unique lens on pandemic preparedness. At St\u00a0Andrews, we are proud to contribute to Scotland\u2019s leadership in global pandemic science. By working closely with the Scottish Government, Public Health Scotland, the research community, and industry partners, we aim to deliver innovative solutions that strengthen national resilience, reduce health inequalities, and advance scientific discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full press release<\/a>\u00a0on the University of St\u00a0Andrews news site.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Deborah Williamson, Dean of Medicine and Head of the\u00a0School of Medicine\u00a0has been appointed Co-Director of Public Health Scotland\u2019s newly launched\u00a0National Scottish Pandemic Sciences Partnership (NSPSP)\u00a0today (Monday 21 July). Hosted by Public Health Scotland and funded by the Scottish Government, the NSPSP will officially operate under the co-leadership of\u00a0Professor Williamson and Professor Emma Thomson, Director…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,10,1342],"tags":[232,594,606,1398],"class_list":["post-7125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-igh","category-news","category-university-of-st-andrews","tag-covid-19","tag-igh","tag-infection-and-global-health-division","tag-prof-deborah-williamson"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 22:11:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}