Consultant STI Surveillance & Prevention Scientist, UKHSA, Honorary Associate Professor, UCL
Dr. Hamish Mohammed is a Consultant Epidemiologist in the Division of Blood Safety, Hepatitis, STIs and HIV at the UK Health Security Agency where he leads on national surveillance of STIs. He studied at Morehouse College (Atlanta, USA) before completing his MPH and PhD in epidemiology at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (New Orleans, USA).
He was an Epidemic Intelligence Officer at the US CDC’s Dengue Branch where he responded to dengue outbreaks in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, then joined the research faculty at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine (St. Kitts and Nevis) and the University of Trinidad and Tobago. He has extensive experience in STI research, and in responding to emerging and re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks including England’s public health response to the mpox outbreak, the COVID-19 pandemic, and sexual transmission of Zika. He has also been seconded to the World Health Organization to support polio eradication in India, and the public health response to the 2014/15 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.
Dr. Mohammed is a member of the Medical Board of Naz, a sexual health charity in London, and Honorary Associate Professor at University College London. In his current role at UKHSA, he uses surveillance and research data to assess and address inequalities in STIs.
