UK Mega 2021: Lincolnshire
16 Lincolnshire Legends: Professor Jonathan Van-Tam
This a straightforward series which was published for the 2021 UK Mega, held at the nearby Lincolnshire Showground. The series celebrates the many famous people who were either born in, lived in or associated with the glorious county of Lincolnshire!
JVT, Boston's finest
Jonathan Stafford Nguyen Van-Tam MBE (born 2nd February 1964) is a British healthcare professional specialising in influenza, including its epidemiology, transmission, vaccinology, antiviral drugs and pandemic preparedness.
After hospital work he was involved variously as a university lecturer and within the pharmaceutical industry. Van-Tam has been a Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England since 2nd October 2017. As of 2021, he is one of two deputies. JVT came to the attention of the general public during the Covid-19 pandemic and is famous for his colourful metaphors.
Van-Tam was born and grew up in Boston. He is partially of Vietnamese descent. He attended Boston Grammar School where his father, Paul Nguyen Van-Tam, was a teacher of mathematics.
