Susan Hopkins CBE is an Irish epidemiologist and civil servant working in the UK.
She is honorary clinical senior lecturer in the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London,[1] and Chief Medical Advisor for the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).
Hopkins studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin and trained in infectious diseases, microbiology and epidemiology in Ireland, France and the UK.
In August 2021 she was appointed Interim Chief Medical Advisor at NHS Test and Trace and the Strategic Response Director for COVID-19 at Public Health England.
[6] In May 2022, she was awarded as Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), for services to Public Health.