Mary Ethna Black

Mary Ethna Black currently serves as a Member of the Thames Regional Flood and Coastal Committee at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and is a Trustee and Director at The MCS Foundation. Black is also a Fellow at Chapter Zero and holds the position of Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews. Additionally, Black serves as a Non-Executive Director for both the National Centre for Earth Observation and the National Centre for Atmospheric Science. Previous roles include Trustee at Paintings in Hospitals and Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford. Notably, Black was a Senior Advisor for the Covid-19 Vaccination Programme and Covid-19 Incident Director at Public Health Scotland and has held interim roles within the organization. Academically, Black has earned a Master of Arts in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London, a Doctorate in Medicine from Trinity College Dublin, and a Master's in Public Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, among other qualifications in medicine and public health.