- Liam Donaldson
Sir Liam Donaldson As Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Sir Liam Donaldson, is the UK Government's principal medical adviser and leads key areas of the Department’s work.
- Ivan Lewis
Ivan Lewis (born 4 March 1967, Prestwich, Bury) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is the member of Parliament for Bury South, and is a member of the Labour Party. He was first elected in the 1997 general election. Lewis was moved to a junior ministerial position in the Department of Health in the Cabinet reshuffle in May 2006. He previously held junior ministerial posts in the Treasury and the Department for Education and Skills, …
- John Hutton
John Matthew Patrick Hutton (born 6 May 1955, London) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour Member of Parliament for Barrow and Furness in Cumbria and the current Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. John Hutton was educated at Westcliff High School for Boys and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was an active member of the University Conservative Association.
- Dawn Primarolo
Dawn Primarolo (born 2 May 1954 in London) is a British Labour Member of Parliament representing Bristol South. Since 29 June 2007 she has been a Minister of State at the Department of Health. Between 1999 and 2007 she was Paymaster General, after being Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1997 to 1999. Schooled at the Thomas Bennett Comprehensive School in Sussex, she joined the Labour Party in 1973 and was first elected to Parliament at the 1987 general election, …
- Caroline Flint
Caroline Louise Flint (born 20 September 1961 in Twickenham, England) is a British Labour politician. She is the Member of Parliament for Don Valley in Northern England, the Minister of State in the Department of Work and Pensions and the Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber.
- Margaret Chan
Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, OBE, JP, MSc., MD, MPH, FRCP (born 1947 in Hong Kong) is the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Chan was elected by the Executive Board of the WHO on 8 November 2006, and was endorsed in a special meeting of the World Health Assembly on the following day. Chan has previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government (1994-2003), …
- Ben Bradshaw
Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (born 30 August 1960 in London) is a British politician and the Labour Member of Parliament for Exeter The Minister of State in the Department of Health and Minister for the South West was one of the first openly gay MPs.
- Ann Keen
Ann Lloyd Keen (born 26 November 1948, Wales as Ann Lloyd Fox) is a Labour Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. She represents Brentford and Isleworth, and was first elected at the 1997 general election, defeating Nirj Deva. She is married to Alan Keen MP and her sister, Sylvia Heal MP, also sits in the House of Commons. Prior to 2007, Ann was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown MP.
- Francisco Duque III
Francisco Duque, III, Philippine Secretary of Health, was born on February 13, 1957 in Manila. He started as director at the University of Pangasinan from 1989-1999; then as Medical Director at the Doctor's Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Veterans Village, Parañaque City from 1996-1999, among others. He became undersecretary at the Department of Health from March 2to June 17, …
- Esperanza Cabral
Dr. Esperanza A. Icasas Cabral is the current Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in the Philippines. Dr. Cabral took office in February 2006 replacing Corazon Soliman after her resignation from Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's cabinet in 2005. A native of Pasay City, Dr. Cabral is married to Dr. Bienvenido Cabral, an opthalmologist. Dr. Cabral, who is a cardiologist and clinical pharmacologist, …
- Donald Acheson
Professor Sir (Ernest) Donald Acheson KBE (b. 17 September 1926) is a British physician and epidemiologist who served as Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom 1983-91. Acheson's parents were Captain Malcolm King Acheson, MC, MD, and Dorothy Josephine "née" Rennoldson. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School, Brasenose College, Oxford (MA, DM, Fellow 1968, Honorary Fellow 1991).
- Kenneth Calman
Professor Sir Kenneth Calman is the former Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University, a position he held since 1998. His time as vice-chancellor saw the expansion and integration of the campus at Stockton-on-Tees, with two colleges being established there in 2001 and the campus being renamed Queen's Campus during the 2003 Golden Jubilee celebrations. There has also been a return to the teaching of medicine at Durham, …
- Ian Carruthers
Sir Ian Carruthers <small>OBE</small> is a senior British civil servant. He has held a variety of appointments in the National Health Service including being its Acting Director of Commissioning and joint Chief Executive of Dorset and Somerset Strategic Health Authority and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Strategic Health Authority. For 6 months during 2006 he was acting Chief Executive of the NHS. Carruthers held senior hospital posts in Blackpool, Southend, …
- Christine Beasley
Christine Beasley (Chief Nursing Officer)
- Gisela Stuart
Gisela Gschaider Stuart (born November 26, 1955 as Gisela Gschaider) is the Labour Member of Parliament for Birmingham Edgbaston in the United Kingdom. Stuart was born in Velden, Bavaria, Germany, raised in her parents' Roman Catholic faith. She moved to Britain in 1974, when she married her husband and relocated to the Midlands. In the 1997 general election, she won the Birmingham Edgbaston seat, …
- John Fox
(Anthony) John Fox is a British statistician, who has worked in both the public service and academia. He was born on April 25 1946, the son of Fred Frank Fox OBE. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, University College London (BSc) and Imperial College London (PhD). He was a statistician at the Employment Medical Advisory Service, 1970-5 and then the Medical Statistics Division of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) until 1979.
- Jim Devine
James "Jim" Devine (b. May 24 1953, Blackburn, West Lothian) is a Scottish Labour Party politician, the Member of Parliament for Livingston, since holding the seat in the Livingston by-election of September 29, 2005. Devine served as election agent to Livingston Constituency Labour Party and to the former MP Robin Cook from the 1983 general election until Cook's death in 2005. He was the Chairman of the Scottish Labour Party 1994-1995.
- Neale Fong
Dr. Neale Fong is a public servant, doctor, Australian rules football administrator and former amateur football player, and Churches of Christ chaplain in Perth, Western Australia. Dr. Fong was the chief executive officer for five years of WA’s largest private hospital, St John of God, when he was recruited by the State Government in 2004 to implement reform in WA’s public health system: Dr.
- John Horam
John Rhodes Horam (born 7 March 1939, Preston) is a politician in the United Kingdom, and currently sits as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Orpington. He was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge where he studied economics. He was a features writer for the "Financial Times" and "The Economist", and a founder of CRU, a commodities analysis and consulting company.
- Christopher Kelly
Sir Christopher William Kelly KCB (born 18 August 1946 in Bromley, Kent, England), is the current Chairman of the NSPCC and a former senior Civil Servant. He is the son of Dr. Reginald Kelly (1917-90), a former President of the Association of British Neurologists. He studied economics at Cambridge University and the University of Manchester.
- Philip Hollobone
Philip Thomas Hollobone (born November 7, 1964) is a British politician and is both a Conservative Member of Parliament for the Kettering constituency (since the 2005 general election) and a member of Kettering Borough Council for the Buccleuch ward (since 2003). Hollobone was educated at Dulwich College, London and the Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1984 he worked as a voluntary teacher in Honduras.
- Tom Quinn
Tom Quinn is the UK's only Professor of Cardiac nursing, and a fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) for his outstanding contribution to research and practice of cardiac nursing. He currently works at Coventry University covering research, development and consultancy in cardiovascular care issues, particularly emergency and critical cardiac care and policy. His previous clinical experience included periods at St Bartholomew's Hospital, …
- Brian Mawhinney
Brian Stanley Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney PC (born 26 July 1940) is a British politician. He was a member of the Cabinet until 1997 and a Member of Parliament until 2005. Mawhinney, from Northern Ireland, went to school at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and studied physics at the Queen's University of Belfast, gaining an upper second class degree in 1963. He obtained a Ph.D. in radiation physics at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
- Noel Treacy
Noel Treacy, is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He is currently a Teachta Dála (TD) for Galway East. Noel Treacy was born in Ballinasloe, County Galway in 1951. He was educated at Gurteen National School and St. Joseph's College, Garbally Park in Ballinasloe. He worked as an auctioneer and financial services manager before entering public life. Treacy was first elected to Dáil Éireann in a by-election in May 1982 and has been re-elected ever since.
- Paul Ennals
Paul Ennals is chief executive of the National Children's Bureau, a post he took up in 1998, having previously been director of education and employment for the RNIB. He was vice-chair of the government's National Advisory Group on Special Educational Needs (SEN) from 1997 to 2001, chair of the Council for Disabled Children from 1993-1998, and founder chair of the Special Educational Consortium.
- Sylvia Denton
Sylvia Ernestine Denton, CBE, FRCN began her nursing career with a qualification in general nursing from the Royal London Hospital. She practised in the area of thoracic medicine, becoming a research sister and clinical nurse specialist. She also qualified and practised as a specialist health visitor for homeless families, she also helped found the Royal College of Nursing Breast Care Nursing Society. Her Master’s degree is in advanced clinical practice in cancer nursing.
- Andrew Burnham
Andrew Murray Burnham (born January 7, 1970) is a British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for the Greater Manchester constituency of Leigh and is Minister of State at the Department of Health.
- John Garrow
Professor John Garrow, MD, PhD (St Andrews), FRCP(Ed), FRCP(Lond) has been the chairman of HealthWatch 1991-1993, 1997-1999, 2003-2005. He was editor of European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1988-1999. Formerly Professor of Human Nutrition, University of London, Honorary consultant physician St Bartholomew's Hospital, St Mark's Hospital, Royal London Hospital and Northwick Park Hospital. Was the head of Nutrition Research Unit MRC Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, …
- Andy Love
Andrew McCulloch Love (born 21 March 1949, Greenock) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He has been Labour and Co-operative member of Parliament for Edmonton since 1997. Born in Greenock, Andy Love was educated at the town's high school before attending Strathclyde University in Glasgow, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree. He moved to London in 1974 and joined the Labour Party the year later.
- Réal Ménard
Réal Ménard is a Canadian politician, and is member of the Canadian House of Commons for the Quebec riding of Hochelaga. He is a member of the Bloc Québécois and is the second Canadian Member of Parliament to come out as gay. Ménard is a political scientist with B.A. and M.A. degrees. He first stood for federal office in the 1984 federal election as candidate for the small Parti nationaliste du Québec in Hochelaga–Maisonneuve.
- David Osborne Hagger
David Osborne Hagger, born in 1939 in London, England, is a retired British government executive who was employed as Head of Abridged Licensing and Co-ordinator of the Executive support business of the Medicines Division of the Department of Health at Market Towers in London. On July 5, 1999 David Osborne Hagger appeared by Statement 476 before the BSE Inquiry.
- Kenneth Stowe
Sir Kenneth Stowe GCB CVO (b. July 17, 1927) is a senior British civil servant. He was Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister 1975 to 1979, and the Permanent Under Secretary of State of the Northern Ireland Office 1979 to 1981. From 1981 to 1987 he was Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Security. He was made a CB in 1977, CVO in 1979, and KCB in 1980 and a GCB in 1986.
- Huguette Labelle
Huguette Labelle holds a Doctor of Philosophy, Education. She is a Companion of the Order of Canada. She has been awarded honorary degrees from twelve Canadian Universities and has received the Vanier medal of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, the Outstanding Achievement Award of the public service of Canada, the McGill Management Achievement Award and l'ordre de la Pleiade.
- Gerry Malone
Peter Gerald Malone, known as Gerry Malone, (born 21 July 1950) is a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party politician who was an MP 1983-1987 and 1992-1997. He began his parliamentary career as the unsuccessful Conservative candidate in the Glasgow Hillhead by-election, 1982, losing the traditionally Conservative seat to Roy Jenkins of the SDP. He was then elected as MP for Aberdeen South in 1983, under the Thatcher government, …
- Carole Goble
Carole Goble is a full professor in the the School of Computer Science in the University of Manchester , UK , where she has co-led the Information Management Group since 1997. She has worked closely with life scientists for many years and is the Director of the my Grid project, the largest UK e-Science pilot project, which has produced the widely-used Taverna open source software and is now part of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK .
- John Donnellan
John F. Donnellan is a former Irish politician and sportsperson. He served as a Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) for Dáil Éireann for twenty-five years. He played Gaelic football with his local club Dunmore McHales and with the Galway senior inter-county team in the 1960s.
- Elizabeth Fradd
Elizabeth Fradd, SRN, RSCN, SCM, HC, HV Cert, MSc is a nursing academic and fellow of the Royal College of Nursing. Between 1973 and 1983 when she held a variety of registered nurse, midwife and health visitor posts, she also trained as a children’s nurse who has also managed children’s units in Nottingham and worked as a nursing officer at the Department of Health. In 1994 she gained an MSc in Health Care Policy and Organisation from Nottingham University.
- Andrew Pettigrew
Andrew Pettigrew is a British professor, currently dean of the University of Bath School of Management. He received his training in sociology and anthropology at Liverpool University and received his Ph.D. from Manchester Business School in 1970. He has held academic appointments at Yale University, Harvard University, London Business School and Warwick Business School. Pettigrew has published many academic papers and books that consider the human, political, …
- Nigel Crisp Baron Crisp
Edmund Nigel Ramsay Crisp, Baron Crisp, KCB, is a British former senior civil servant in the NHS, who was awarded a life peerage upon retirement. Crisp was appointed as Chief Executive of the NHS and Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health on 1 November 2000. He is unlike his predecessors or successor in combining these posts. He retired (some people suggest that he was forced to resign) on 7 March 2006, at a period of financial crisis for the NHS.
- Philip Hunt Baron Hunt of Kings Heath
Philip Hunt, Baron Hunt of Kings Heath, OBE (born 1949) has been Minister of State at the Department of Health since January 2007. Before that he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Lords) at the DWP, and was previously a junior Minister at the Department of Heath from 1999 until his resignation in 2003 over the Invasion of Iraq. He was educated at the City of Oxford High School and Oxford School and left Leeds University in 1970 with a BA in political studies.