Professor Kenji Shibuya

Professor and Director, University Institute for Population Health
King’s College London, United Kingdom

Professor Kenji Shibuya is currently Director, University Institute for Population Health at King’s College London. His expertise ranges across important topics in global and population health including health metrics and evaluation; global burden of disease; health system performance; product and system innovations; public-private partnerships; and R&D strategies. Dr. Shibuya has been an advisor to both central and local governments, and most recently he was appointed as Special Advisor to the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a new pandemic vaccine fund, investing in COVID-19 vaccines . He spearheaded the future strategic directions of the Japanese global health policy agenda at the Hokkaido Toyako G8 Summit in 2008 on health system strengthening and Ise-Shima G7 Summit in 2016 on global health security. He obtained his MD at the University of Tokyo and earned a doctorate of public health in international health economics at Harvard University.