Virginia Murray is a public health doctor committed to improving health emergency and disaster risk management. In 2014, she was appointed as Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction for UK Health Security Agency (formerly Public Health England). She is currently the Chair of the UNDRR/ISC Steering Group for Phase 2 update for 2025 of the UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profiles published in 2021. She is a co-chair of the WHO Thematic Platform Health and Disaster Risk Management Research Network, and by working in collaboration with this network, she is one of the editors of the WHO Guidance on Research Methods for Health and Disaster Risk Management, published in 2021 and updated in 2022. She is a visiting/honorary Professor and fellow at several universities.