Chris Whitty

Sir Chris Whitty KCB FRS FRCP FFPH FMedSci
Whitty in 2020
Chief Medical Officer for England
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 October 2019
Deputy	Sir Jonathan Van-Tam (until 2022) Dame 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 (age 58) Gloucester, England
Alma mater	University of Oxford London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Northumbria University Heriot-Watt University The Open University
Profession	Physician and epidemiologist
Website	gov.uk/government/people/christopher-whitty

Sir Christopher John MacRae Whitty KCB FRS (born 21 April 1966) is a British epidemiologist, serving as Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government since 2019.

Whitty was Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department of Health and Social Care and Head of the National Institute for Health and Care Research from 2016 to 2021. He was also the Acting Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2017 to 2018. He is emeritus Gresham Professor of Physic.

Since March 2020, Whitty has played a key role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, alongside Government Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance. Whitty was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to public health.