Sarah Garner, Ph.D., a 2010-11 Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, is associate director for research and development at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).  She is also a member of the Regulation of Medicines Review Panel and special lecturer at Nottingham University School of Medical and Surgical Sciences.

Past positions include technical advisor, NICE Appraisals Team; pharmacist lead, Health Protection Agency/Department of Health Specialist Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance (SACAR); joint appointment as health technology analyst, NICE Appraisals Team and honorary research fellow at St. Georges University of London; and research associate in the unit of health-care epidemiology, Institute of Sciences, Oxford University.

Garner is author of 18 peer-reviewed publications that have appeared in journals including JAMA and the BMJ. She holds a Ph.D. from Nottingham University.