Chris Whitty

Professor Sir Chris Whitty CB FRCP FFPH FMedSci
Chief Medical Officer for England
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 October 2019
Deputy	Jonathan Van-Tam Jenny Harries (until 2021) Aidan Fowler
Preceded by	Dame Sally Davies
Government Chief Scientific Adviser
Acting 18 September 2017 – 4 April 2018
Preceded by	Sir Mark Walport
Succeeded by	Sir Patrick Vallance
Personal details
Born	Christopher John MacRae Whitty (1966-04-21) 21 April 1966 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
Alma mater	University of Oxford London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Northumbria University Heriot-Watt University Open University
Profession	Physician and epidemiologist
Website	gov.uk/government/people/christopher-whitty

Professor Sir Christopher John MacRae Whitty CB FRCP FFPH FMedSci (born 21 April 1966) is an English physician and epidemiologist who serves as the Chief Medical Officer for England (CMO), Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government, Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) to the Department of Health and Social Care, Head of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), and Gresham Professor of Physic. He was also the Acting Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2017 to 2018.

Whitty has played a key role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, with Government Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.