Stuart Carroll

Stuart Carroll is a senior health economist and epidemiologist with over 18 years of experience, specialising in infectious diseases and vaccines, market access, health technology appraisal, public health, and public affairs and government policy.  He is currently working for Her Majesty’s Government as a Senior Expert Policy and Strategy Adviser for the Prime Minister’s UK Vaccines Taskforce and the recently formed Antiviral and Therapeutics Taskforce where he has been coordinating policy, deployment and implementation imperatives as well as providing expert advice to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) and leading on the Northern Ireland Protocol.  Stuart also specialises in health policy and market access matters relating to rare diseases, neurology and mental health, and has published over 150 peer review academic and scientific papers.

Previously Stuart has worked in consultancy, acted as a Health Policy Adviser to the Conservative Party and undertaken multiple industry roles including recently as Head of Market Access and Public Affairs for Sanofi Pasteur UK and Ireland and previously Head of Market Access for Biogen and Head of Health Economics and Epidemiology for Sanofi Pasteur MSD.  He has also served as a full voting member of the New Drugs Committee to the NHS Scottish Medicines Consortium and a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Appeals Panel. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society for Public Health and Royal Society of Arts, and also acts as a visiting lecturer to Imperial Business School. He is a recent Co-Chair of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry Vaccines Group and in 2019 General Election acted as the former Prime Minister, Theresa May’s Chief of Staff.

Stuart is also an elected councillor where he represents Boyn Hill in the Royal Borough of Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead where he also serves as the Deputy Chair of Cabinet, the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care, Health, Mental Health and Children’s Services and the Chairman of the Health and Wellbeing Board. He holds a BA Hons Politics and Economics (1st Class) from the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, an MSc in Health Economics (Distinction) from the University of York and an MBA (Distinction) from Imperial Business School.