Mark Radford

Chair of IRD Global.- Established in 2004 IRD Global is a proudly Southern rooted, evidence based public health research and implementation organization working in the domains of Mother and Child Health, Infectious Diseases, Mental Health and Global Surgery. IRD has run programs in around 20 countries in Africa and Asia, with a current major focus on Pakistan, Bangladesh and Southern Africa. Our approach is centered on translating and evaluating research innovation into impactful, scalable public health interventions.

Co-founder/Director of biotech/healthtech/pharmatech companies in tissue engineering (cardiac valves and living grafts), in rapid diagnostics, and in treatment of advanced cancers (allosteric modulation of integrins).

EDCTP Audit Committee member since 2019.

Advisory Board, Cognito Health Communications- international healthcare and pharma sector communications agency.