Professor Elizabeth Miller is an infectious disease epidemiologist who has worked on vaccines and immunisation programmes for over 40 years. She was the former Head of Immunisation at Public Health England and is now a professor in the department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and a visiting professor at the School of Public Health a Tel Aviv University. She has considerable experience in evaluating vaccine safety and effectiveness and served as a member of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunisation and was a founder member of the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS). In response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic she lead the PHE (now UKHSA) studies of household transmission of the virus and the effect of vaccination in the household setting and is currently working with UKHSA colleagues on various studies of COVID-19 vaccine safety. She is also working for the WHO in assessing COVID-19 vaccines
that are candidates for inclusion in the WHO efficacy trials (SOLIDARITY) that are being conducted in low and middle income countries, and candidate vaccines for evaluation in viral haemorrhagic outbreaks.