Elizabeth Allen

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.