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Chloe Sellwood BSc (Hons) PhD FRSPH DipHEP is the Pandemic Influenza Resilience Manager for NHS England, within the Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) Team. She leads NHS England internal pandemic influenza preparedness as a subject matter expert, and is coordinating national pandemic preparedness across the NHS, with a specific focus on London.

Her experience in pandemic influenza ranges from local to international levels and encompasses scientific, strategic and operational aspects, in both preparedness and response.

She spent over seven years at the Health Protection Agency, including three years as the Senior Scientist and Coordinator of the Pandemic Influenza Office. In 2008 she joined NHS London (the then strategic health authority for London) as the Pandemic Influenza Resilience Manager and was heavily involved in the response to the swine flu pandemic. In 2010 she assumed the additional responsibility for 2012 Health Resilience for the NHS across London for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Since autumn 2014 she assumed the strategic leadership for NHS ebola preparedness in London.

She is the co-editor of, and a contributing author to, two textbooks on pandemic influenza, as well as many other articles and papers on influenza resilience. She has worked with WHO and ECDC on international consultations, as well as on secondment to the DH (England) Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Programme. Whilst at NHS London she obtained a diploma in health emergency preparedness and has broadened her experience to encompass wider aspects of health EPRR.