Davide Bilardi

Davide Bilardi is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is a member of the senior academic team of the Master’s in Global Healthcare Leadership programme that the Department runs in conjunction with the Saïd Business School. In this role, he contributes to shaping the academic experience of executive professionals from diverse global backgrounds, supporting their learning, research, and leadership development. As part of the senior academic team, he plays a key role in fostering interdisciplinary collaboration between healthcare and business education, strengthening the programme’s influence in international health policy circles. He also co-leads and teaches in two of the MSc's modules. His work has deepened his engagement in multi-stakeholder research initiatives and reinforced his commitment to promoting inclusivity and equity in global health.

He completed his DPhil in Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford with a focus on measuring the impact of capacity-strengthening initiatives in global health research. His research, conducted with The Global Health Network evaluated tools for assessing research competencies among healthcare workers in low- and middle-income countries, involving research centres in Brazil, Thailand, and Zambia.

As part of the Decolonisation and Global Health Exchange Network, he worked for over a year in Kenya as a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Health Systems and Research Ethics Department of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme. His project examined best practices in research capacity strengthening, aiming to foster a more equitable and inclusive approach to knowledge exchange.

Before joining the Department, Davide supported global consortia for over a decade, delivering impactful international research in infectious diseases. He managed international clinical trials and observational studies funded by public and private institutions.

He has a long-lasting collaboration with the PENTA network—a global consortium of research centres working on paediatric infectious diseases—advising on navigating multidisciplinary research environments across high-income and low- and middle-income country institutions.

His expertise spans the socioeconomic aspects of access to healthcare, behavioural components of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), paediatric HIV, and health emergency preparedness.

He is also a member of the Technical Advisory Forum of the International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions (ICARS – Global).

In addition to his research and teaching, Davide trains as a Life and Career Coach and is part of the Oxford University Coaching Network.