CV_Dame Sally Davies

Dame Sally Davies is the 40th
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University, the UK
Government’s Special Envoy on AMR and the chair of The Trinity Challenge, which she set up
in May 2020.
Before this, from March 2011 to September 2019, she was Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for
England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government. Dame Sally was a member of the
World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board 2014-2016 and led delegations to a range
of WHO summits and forums since 2004.
Dame Sally advocates globally on AMR: for three years, Dame Sally was the chair of the
WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on AMR and later co-convener of the UN Inter-
Agency Co-ordination Group on AMR, set up in response to the AMR declaration made at
UNGA 2016. Dame Sally is a member of the UN Global Leaders Group on AMR, since 2020,
serving alongside Heads of State, Ministers and prominent figures from around the world.
Dame Sally is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Member of the US Academy of Science. In
the 2020 New Year’s Honours, Dame Sally was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of
the Bath (GCB) for services to public health and research, having received her DBE in 2009.