Professor Chris Whitty is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England, the UK government’s Chief Medical Adviser, and head of the public health profession.
He is a practising NHS Consultant Physician at University College London Hospitals and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, and undertook clinical training, clinical and research work in the UK as well as in Africa, Asia.

Previously he was Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) at the Department of Health and Social Care, Head (CEO) of NIHR, CSA at the Department for International Development, and interim Government Chief Scientific Adviser. He was Professor of Public and International Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Gresham Professor of Physic.