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PSI researchers Alice Norton and Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths have been conferred the title of Associate Professors through the University’s Recognition of Distinction Scheme.
In congratulating the two new professors, PSI Director Professor Sir Peter Horby said: “This recognition attests to Alice and Jasmina’s research and leadership record.
“While this title comes in acknowledgement to their contribution to the University, our new professors’ impact goes well beyond academia. Both Alice and Jasmina are leading strong teams whose work is contributing tangibly to pandemic preparedness and response.”
Professor Norton, Principal Investigator of the PSI Policy and Practice Research Group, is a leading pandemic policy expert with over 20 years of experience in global health research, funding and practice.
She serves as Scientific Director for the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R), PI for the Pandemic PACT programme, and PSI Academic and Policy Lead for the Africa Pandemic Sciences Collaborative – a partnership between PSI, the Science for Africa Foundation and the Mastercard Foundation. During the pandemic, she led the COVID CIRCLE initiative, which aligned funders policies for funding in LMICs, tracked research funding and identified research needs to inform action and response.
As part of the MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine core faculty, Professor Norton has recently received a high commendation at the latest University of Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor’s Awards.
Professor Panovska-Griffiths leads the Mathematical Modelling for Public Health Policy Support group, encompassing researchers across PSI and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).
She serves as co-director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Data Science, and is a Lecturer in Probability and Statistics at The Queen's College. During the COVID-19 pandemic, her modelling results on school reopening and roadmap modelling projections were used by the SPI-M-O, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), the NHS and UKHSA. For her responsive and timely modelling during the COVID-19 pandemic, Professor Panovska-Griffiths was highly commended for the Florence Nightingale Award for Excellence in Healthcare Analytics in 2021.
Professor Panovska-Griffiths is a Fellow of The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, of The Royal Statistical Society and of The Royal Society for Public Health, and is part of the Advisory Body of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences.