Ms Emma Ross

Ms Emma Ross is Director of the Global Health Programme at Chatham House.
She conducted research and moderated expert dialogues on a broad range of issues, from strengthening global biosecurity and international cooperation on pandemic preparedness and against the spread of weapons of mass destruction, to the politics and geopolitics of outbreaks, global health governance and strengthening decision-making in international financing for global health priorities.
Until 2022, Emma served for more than a decade as the managing editor of the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual. Prior to that role, she led the news operation at the headquarters of WHO, after serving as a long-standing medical correspondent for the Associated Press. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University in the United States.