Jonathan is based at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), where he is a Group Lead for Partnerships and Capacity Building and a Principal Expert in Emergency Preparedness and Response. Jonathan is a multidisciplinary public health specialist who coordinates preparedness work at ECDC topics such as pandemic preparedness, non-pharmaceutical interventions, after-action reviews, risk prioritisation, and climate change adaptation. He also leads the implementation of projects designed to strengthen health security and foster regional dialogue across European Neighbourhood Policy countries. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Jonathan was strategic analyst to the ECDC response. In 2023, he was a member of the WHO Guideline Development Group on Public Health and Social Measures for Mitigating the Risk and Impact of Epidemic and Pandemic Influenza. With ECDC since 2007, Jonathan has led and/or contributed to numerous emergency responses, country assessments, simulation exercises and after-action reviews in varying national and international settings, and he has also conducted extensive epidemiology research into the environmental and social determinants of infectious disease with a particular emphasis on climate change. Prior to joining ECDC, Jonathan worked in academia and in the biotechnology industry. Jonathan has a BSc. in microbiology and immunology from McGill University and a PhD from the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh.
