John Craig is Chief Innovation Officer at UCLPartners, leading its work to develop and scale life-changing innovations in healthcare. John’s work includes major implementation projects on equality in cancer care, deploying AI for prevention and achieving a step-change in reducing heart attacks and strokes.
John has spent two decades working on public service innovation. Before UCLPartners, he was Chief Executive of Care City, an innovation centre in Barking, North-East London, focused on care and regeneration. John has worked with FutureGov, the Cabinet Office’s Policy Lab, Shelter and Stonewall. Until 2015, John spent five years leading Innovation Unit, an independent non-profit that develops radically better, lower-cost public services. Before 2010, John worked at the Cabinet Office as a policy advisor in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, and at the think-tank, Demos, as a senior researcher.