Lauren Sullivan
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Lauren Sullivan | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament for Gravesham | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Adam Holloway |
| Majority | 2,712 (6.3%) |
| Personal details | |
| Party | Labour |
| Profession | Politician |
Lauren Sullivan is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament for Gravesham since the 2024 general election. Before being elected as a Member of Parliament, she was a scientist and a chemistry teacher.[1][2][failed verification]
Sullivan researched neglected tropical diseases under Regius Professor Michael Ferguson at the University of Dundee, specialising in African sleeping sickness.[3] She graduated from the University of Dundee with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 2012 with a doctoral thesis titled "Discovery and development of diagnostic biomarkers for human African trypanosomiasis".[4] She then worked on malaria under Jean Langhorne at the Francis Crick Institute in London, having held a Daphne Jackson fellowship. She is also qualified as a secondary school science teacher.[3]
She has served as Borough Councillor at Gravesham Borough Council and Leader of the Opposition at Kent County Council.
In her youth, Sullivan was elected as a Member of the UK Youth Parliament.[5]
