Paul Kingpriest is a research physician and Senior Research Facilitator at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. His research interests span population and global health, pandemic preparedness, infectious disease surveillance, health systems, research capacity strengthening, and the application of artificial intelligence and data driven approaches to public health.

Paul currently contributes to PANDAI, a Horizon Europe research programme developing an AI enabled observatory to strengthen pandemic prediction, detection and preparedness. His work sits at the interface of interdisciplinary research, stakeholder engagement, policy translation and science communication, helping connect emerging scientific evidence and technologies with public health decision makers and wider communities.

His previous research has included infectious disease surveillance, environmental surveillance, health access mapping, medical education, research capacity strengthening, and clinical and population health research. He has experience across quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research, evidence synthesis, protocol development, data analysis and international multi country studies. He also led the development of an interactive digital tool designed to strengthen research leadership among frontline healthcare workers.

Paul is particularly interested in research that translates into practical improvements in health systems and advances equity in global health. His work seeks to strengthen pandemic preparedness, expand opportunities for locally led research, and improve access to the knowledge, tools and resources needed by researchers, healthcare professionals and public health decision makers.