Philippa Easterbrook is Senior Scientist in the Global Hepatitis Programme, HIV department at the World Health Organisation Headquarters in Geneva. She is an HIV and infectious diseases physician and epidemiologist who has worked in the UK, United States and Sub-Saharan Africa. At WHO, she has led the development and dissemination of global normative guidance for HIV as well as Hepatitis B and C testing and treatment, and in 2021 new guidance on criteria for country validation of elimination of viral hepatitis. She also provides technical guidance to national programmes worldwide on the implementation of hepatitis B and C testing and treatment scale-up programmes as part of a global elimination strategy. For eleven years, she was Head of Department, Professor of HIV Medicine, and consultant physician in Infectious Diseases at King´s College London, and also Head of Research at the Infectious Diseases Institute in Uganda. Philippa has served as a Member of the UK Medical Research Council Infection and Immunity Committee, as vice-chair of the World Health Organization Guidelines Review Committee, and since 2021 on the WHO headquarters COVID Publications Review Committee. Her HIV research has encompassed epidemiology, clinical trials, operational/implementation science and qualitative research, and laboratory-based studies.
