Professor Alison McCallum is an experienced public health doctor who joined the Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh in November 2020 as Visiting (Honorary) Professor of Public Health. Her research interests include: inequity and avoidable causes of morbidity and mortality including vaccine equity and inclusion health, determinants of health, particularly commercial, trade and public health. 

She co-leads the on-line MPH/ Global Health Challenges module on Leadership and Management in Public health. She is currently the Usher Institute link with the Association of Schools of Public Health for the (WHO) European Region, chairs the Vaccination subgroup of the ASPHER Public Health Emergencies Task Force and is a member of the Public Health Core Curriculum Expert Consultative Group. She is an ASPHER member of the World Federation of Public Health Associations’ Non-Governmental Organisations for Equity initiative, International Association of Public Health Institutes Social and Public Health Inequalities Committee, Co-Chair of the UK Faculty of Public Health Europe Special Interest Group and a member of the Faculty Global Health and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committees and Public Health Curriculum Steering Group. For the NHS in Scotland, She is a research member of the NHS Scotland Public Benefits and Privacy Panel and National Records of Scotland Central Register Stakeholder Group. Over the last 28 years, she has been a Director of Public Health in Scotland and England, worked at national level in Finland, taught and trained students and professionals in public health and undertaken collaborative research with colleagues in universities in several countries across and beyond Europe.