David McCoy currently leads a programme of work on global health governance, power and accountability at United Nations University Global Health. In this position, a big focus of his work is on the commercial determinants of health and the intersection between financialisation and universal health coverage. Prior to UNU Global Health he was Professor of Global Public Health and Director of the Centre for Global Health at Queen Mary University London. He trained as a medical doctor and worked as a clinician in both the UK and South Africa before moving into public health. Much of his work as an academic and practitioner has focused on health systems reform and development, covering issues related to healthcare financing, human resource development and decentralisation policy as well as on the politics and political economy of global health. He has also worked in civil society as the Director of the UK-based global health charity Medact, a Steering Council member of the Peoples Health Movement and the co-founder and editor of the Global Health Watch.