Dr Niamh Thompson

Niamh is a Senior Policy Advisor in the Health and Wellbeing Cluster. She graduated with an MBChB from the University of Glasgow in 2017 where she was awarded the ‘History of Medicine’ prize for her policy analysis of the barriers to care for survivors of torture in the UK.

Before joining BIT she worked in the NHS for five years as a doctor, with front-line experience in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care during the pandemic. She has worked in clinical research in The Gambia, West Africa and has an MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine