Helen Ward is a British physician who is professor of public health at Imperial College London and director of the patient experience research centre.

[19] She described Boris Johnson's proposed herd immunity as "worrying, and a distraction from the important vital goal of flattening the peak of the epidemic".

[20] Ward worked with the Imperial College London Patient Experience Research Centre and YouGov to understand public sentiment surrounding SARS-CoV-2.

[21] She worked with the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics (J-IDEA) to create an online course that helped to explain the science of SARS-CoV-2.

[24] Despite mounting evidence from the World Health Organization and researchers in Wuhan, the UK did not monitor community cases, contact trace or immediately enforce a stringent lockdown.

[25] Ward has called for case isolation, increased testing and tracking and the suppression of transmissions in hospitals through the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE).

[25] Ward has linked her professional commentary to her personal political opinions, tweeting "'professional academic me' – doctor, professor – is inseparable from the me that cares about justice, equality and health.