Christopher John MacRae Whitty is Chief Medical Officer for England. He is also Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department of Health and Social Care. He has played a key role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.
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Christopher John MacRae Whitty is Chief Medical Officer for England. He is also Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department of Health and Social Care. He has played a key role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. Whitty’s father was Deputy Director of the British Council in Athens and was killed by terrorists in 1984 when Whitty was 17. He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Wolfson College, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Northumbria University, Heriot-Watt University, and the Open University. He worked as a physician and researcher into infectious diseases in UK, Africa and Asia.
In 2008, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded the LSHTM £31 million for malaria research in Africa. In July, he told the Lords Science and Technology Committee that elimination of the disease would be very difficult, a view that was contested by other scientists. The Guardian’s sketch writer, John Crace, described him as “the Geek-in-Chief” who will probably have the greatest impact on our everyday lives of any individual policymaker in modern times. The BBC health editor Hugh Pym called him “the health editor of the day”
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