Virginia Murray is the Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction at Public Health England. In this role she delivers on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction via partnerships such as being a member of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) scientific committee, which is co-sponsored by the International Science Council and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDDR), and as her role as co-chair of IRDR's Disaster Loss Data (DATA). She is an executive committee member of the Committee on Data of the International Science Council (CODATA) and a member of the UNSDSN Data for Sustainable Development TReNDS committee. Prior to her current role, she was Head of Extreme Events and Health Protection where she helped to develop evidence-based information and advice on flooding, heat, cold, volcanic ash, and other extreme weather and natural hazards events and previously was Head of CHaPD London. Virginia is the first author of the chapter on Heat and Extreme Events in the UN Environmental Adaptation Gap Report 2018 and has published widely.