Jonathan Clarke Senior Policy Fellow

Jonathan Clarke is a Senior Policy Fellow in the health and care policy team.

Jonathan joined the Health Foundation as a Principal Data Analyst in September 2024. A clinician by training, Jonathan has worked in a variety of acute hospital roles, specialising as a general surgeon. His academic career has focused on the application of network analysis and other analytical methods to understand complex human-centred social systems, with a focus on health and social care.

Prior to joining the Health Foundation, Jonathan was a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow in the Centre for Mathematics of Precision Healthcare at Imperial College London and was a co-investigator on the Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing. He has worked in roles spanning academia and policy, including secondment as a 10 Downing Street Data Science Fellow working in the Department of Health and Social Care.

He has a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Cambridge, a Master of Public Health from Harvard University, where he was a Kennedy Scholar, and a PhD in Health Policy from Imperial College London. He is a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and an accredited Advanced Data Science Professional by the Royal Statistical Society.