JONATHAN KENNEDY is Senior Lecturer and Director of Global Public Health programmes at Barts and the London Medical School. He has appeared on the “World Tonight” talking about the government’s response to COVID-19 and has been quoted in a range of British newspapers on issues related to the link between politics and public health, including the Economist, the Guardian, The Times, the Telegraph, Independent, and Daily Mail. Kennedy writes op-eds in the Guardian, blogs for the London Review of Books and has published opinion pieces in El Pais. He has a PhD in sociology from the University of Cambridge.