Katherine Littler World Health OrganizationSwitzerland

Katherine Littler is the Co- Head of the Health Ethics & Governance Unit at WHO in Geneva, Switzerland. She focuses on the intersection of ethics, governance and policy in global health and global health research. Katharine has responsibility for a broad portfolio or work including epidemic preparedness and response, climate change and health, governance of emerging technologies and the ethics and governance of trial design. Prior to joining WHO in October 2018, she led the Global Policy Team at Wellcome, providing strategic advice on regulatory, governance and ethical issues. She led a programme of work focusing on research ethics, global governance and advocacy, epidemic preparedness, genomics and emerging technologies, and evidence into policy. She was involved in many international partnerships and sat on many oversight bodies, including: the PHE Ebola Governance Group; the IDDO Ebola Platform Steering Committee; the H3Africa Ethics and Regulatory Working Group and I was the chair of the GLOPID-R data sharing working group.