Jimmy has been head of international activities at the Wellcome Trust since 2004. He is responsible for strategy, policy and developing the scientific portfolio for research in low and middle income countries which has an annual grant disbursement of about £70 -100 million.
He qualified in medicine in 1979 and has worked in The Gambia for Save the Children Fund, and in Sierra Leone and Uganda for the Medical Research Council. He has worked at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he was Professor of International Public Health from 1999 to 2004.
