Biography
Phil Tubb is the Managing Director of Well Travelled Clinics at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and the Deputy Head of the Department of Clinical Sciences. She is a registered nurse with an MA in Education (Health Education) and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA/D3). Phil has a diverse career history including tropical nursing, international humanitarian work, research, governance and risk management, and quality improvement. She has experience of healthcare management in the UK and overseas.
Phil is also LSTM’s global safeguarding lead and is responsible for leading on implementation of safeguarding strategy across LSTM and its global hubs, working with the safeguarding officers at these sites to develop safeguarding practice and learn and share with each other. She is particularly interested in supporting international organisations to design and deliver safeguarding training, and to learn from each other and work in partnership to reduce safeguarding risk and promote excellence in safeguarding practice, to protect vulnerable people in research and education programmes, and staff and students who work in them.
Research interests
Phil’s primary research interests are safeguarding, travel health, and vaccine studies.
Teaching
Phil’s teaching interests are safeguarding, travel health, quality improvement, incident investigation and root cause analysis.
Selected research publications
Safeguarding in practice: anticipating, minimising and mitigating risk in teenage pregnancy research in urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya – Journal: BMJ Global Health – Published: 29th February 2024
Implications of COVID-19 for safeguarding in international development research: learning, action and reflection from a research hub. – Journal: BMJ Global Health – Published: 20th May 2022
How to prevent and address safeguarding concerns in global health research programmes: practice, process and positionality in marginalised spaces – Journal: BMJ Global Health – Published: 13th May 2020
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