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.