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King's Population Health Institute Vanguard Series: Sam Everington

King’s Population Health Institute Vanguard Series

14 July 2026

King's Population Health Institute Vanguard Series welcomed Professor Sir Sam Everington. The series explores how we can reimagine and transform population health by embracing systems thinking, fostering innovation, and placing equity at the core of every solution. It is designed to: Illuminate the polycrisis, inspire leadership, foster collaboration, and champion equity.

KPHI Vanguard Professor Sir Sam Everington — Professor Jim Campbell, Professor Sir Sam Everington, and Professor Graham Lord

For more than four decades Professor Sir Sam Everington has combined clinical practice, research, activism and public service in ways that have shaped primary healthcare in the UK and internationally.

A General Practitioner in Tower Hamlets since 1989, he pioneered neighbourhood health and social prescribing long before they became national policy. Alongside his clinical work, he has advised ministers, served on national bodies, led campaigns on junior doctors' working hours and racial discrimination, and continues to influence NHS reform through his roles with NHS England and the Royal College of General Practitioners.

▶️ Watch the Vanguard Health Fireside Chat here:

▶️ Read Jim Campbell’s reflections from the Fireside Chat here