Dr. Éamonn O’Moore is a Consultant in Communicable Disease Control and has worked as Director of Thames Valley Health Protection Unit in Oxfordshire since 2008. He has worked on secondment to the Public Health England Transition Team (PHE-TT) with the Department of Health since June 2011 supporting work on developing the new Local Public Health System. His area of work with PHE-TT has included the design of Public Health England and assurance of the new Emergency Preparedness, Resilience & Response (EPRR) system.

He has also worked as a Consultant in Public Health to the Ministry of Justice and Department of Health’s Offender Health team since 2005. He has worked with a broad range of NHS and Local Authority partners at local, regional and national level and has been involved in policy work since 2005.

He leads a highly skilled, multi-disciplinary health protection team in Oxfordshire, serving a population of 2.2 million people and working in partnership with sixteen local authorities, three PCT clusters and other statutory and non-statutory partner organisations.

He lectures on public health at the University of Oxford and Oxford-Brookes University and has a broad range of research interests and collaborations relating to migrant health, the health needs of people in contact with the criminal justice system, sexual health, TB and HIV/AIDS. He has also just published his first novel- The Maiwand Lion!