Richard Sullivan MD, PhD

Richard is Visiting Professor (Faculty of Medicine) at Universidad Catolica, Santiago de Chile, NATO College and a senior fellow at the International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon.

Richard qualified in medicine at St. Marys Hospital, London. Following training in urology he undertook a PhD and post-doctoral research in cell signalling at University College London. He then worked in a senior role in the pharmaceutical industry before spending nearly a decade with one of the world's biggest NGO funders of cancer R&D Cancer Research UK as their clinical director. In 2008 Richard moved back into the public sector at the London School of Economics where he studied complex healthcare systems within the health, society and population programme working in conflict and post conflict public health settings in the Balkans, Africa and most recently Middle East.

He serves on a wide variety of advisory boards, including Charite Comprehensive Cancer Centre Berlin, Irish Clinical Oncology Group, Marjan Centre for Conflict & Conservation, Pfizer Policy Advisory Board, etc. He is also past UK Director of the Council for Emerging National Security Affairs (CENSA) a Washington-based national security think-tank where he specialised in bioweapon counter-proliferation and the security implications of global health.

Richard’s research programmes extend from the socio-political policy of global cancer (OncoPolicy), to the development of public health systems in high-risk conflict areas focusing on DR Congo, Afghanistan & Libya. He also has a strong research interest in the development of novel therapeutics derived from the natural world, particularly medicinal mushrooms.