UK Health Security Agency (for England mostly but some UK-wide), Public Health Wales, Public Health Scotland, Public Health Agency (Northern Ireland) are the public health agencies, at least for infectious diseases, for England (~CDC).
Department for Health and Social Care for public health and other policy.
Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology for emerging biotech.
Cabinet Office for cross-departmental work, including the National Rush Risk Register which had pandemics as the biggest civil threat even pre-COVID.
Various other government departments are involved in different ways, the recent National Biosecurity Strategy is the best place to look for everything that is going on.
MHRA regulates pharmaceuticals and other healthcare products (~FDA but only medical).
There’s lots of labs across various institutions depending on what (sub)-field your after. Pretty much everyone relevant in the sciences (including behavioural sciences and some engineering) were included in the SAGE Advisory Groups. UKRI is the parent body for governmental funding is academia and the various sub-bodies (“research councils”) do funding of all kinds of pandemic-relevant work (including social sciences, mathematics, engineering, biology).
Other
The Institute for Government is an independent think tank focused on masking government work better. They’ve done some work (including in collaboration with CLTR) looking at how the COVID response went and emergency preparedness more broadly.
Some UK additions.
Government
UK Health Security Agency (for England mostly but some UK-wide), Public Health Wales, Public Health Scotland, Public Health Agency (Northern Ireland) are the public health agencies, at least for infectious diseases, for England (~CDC).
Department for Health and Social Care for public health and other policy.
Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology for emerging biotech.
Cabinet Office for cross-departmental work, including the National Rush Risk Register which had pandemics as the biggest civil threat even pre-COVID.
Various other government departments are involved in different ways, the recent National Biosecurity Strategy is the best place to look for everything that is going on.
MHRA regulates pharmaceuticals and other healthcare products (~FDA but only medical).
UK Biosecurity Leadership Council launched this week. A way of bringing external experts into the policy making process.
Academic
There’s lots of labs across various institutions depending on what (sub)-field your after. Pretty much everyone relevant in the sciences (including behavioural sciences and some engineering) were included in the SAGE Advisory Groups. UKRI is the parent body for governmental funding is academia and the various sub-bodies (“research councils”) do funding of all kinds of pandemic-relevant work (including social sciences, mathematics, engineering, biology).
Other
The Institute for Government is an independent think tank focused on masking government work better. They’ve done some work (including in collaboration with CLTR) looking at how the COVID response went and emergency preparedness more broadly.