Vageesh Jain Public Health Registrar/Health Adviser

About me

Vageesh Jain is a 2023–24 UK Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice.

He is a public health physician currently working as a health adviser at the UK Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office. He is interested in the role of health systems in addressing social determinants of health, and the impact of hospital-based community prevention programs, such as those used for violent injury. 

He has previously worked in hospitals, local and central government health departments, and at the UK Health Security Agency where he continues on the health protection rota to respond to outbreaks of infectious disease. He completed an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship at University College London in 2021, where he developed an interest in using econometric research methods to answer public health policy questions. 

He has more than 30 peer-reviewed publications and was awarded the Bennett Prospect Prize 2019/20 from the University of Cambridge for his proposal on a UK Food and Beverage Industry Levy (FBIL). He earned his medical degree (MBBS) from King’s College London and was awarded the prize for the highest marks in his master’s in public health (M.P.H.). He holds a non-resident fellowship at the Center for Global Development and Membership of the UK Faculty of Public Health (MFPH).