Ms Clara Burton

Clara Burton is a senior programme manager with extensive experience managing large and complex programmes in low- and middle-income settings. She holds an MSc in International Development and has worked in senior programme manager positions at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) since 2017 and before that at non-governmental organisations (The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, CARE International, Principles for Responsible Investment) in project management and business development roles. Clara is currently the Senior Programme Manager of the health systems and workforce strengthening unit in the Department for International Public Health. She has strategic oversight and accountability of operational and financial aspects of over £10 million research funding including the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office-funded ReBUILD for Resilience (where she is CEO). Clara is also working closely with senior academics to establish the Institute of Resilient Health Systems, a new initiative aiming to build on and extend LSTM’s health systems research, education and knowledge exchange programmes. She is a safeguarding focal point for the Department for International Public Health and sits on the task and finish group for travel and work overseas. Clara set up and now convenes the programme management forum.

Clara's primary research interests are fragile and shock prone settings, capacity strengthening, and equitable partnerships. 

Clara leads the programme and financial management sessions on LSTM’s Diploma for Tropical Nursing and the MSc modules Practice of Humanitarian Relief, and Organisation and Management.