Jenny Harries

Jennifer Harries
Chief Executive of the UK Health Security Agency
Head of NHS Test and Trace
Assumed office
7 May 2021
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Preceded byDido Harding (Acting)
Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England
In office
7 June 2019 – 31 March 2021
Serving with Jonathan Van-Tam (from 2017)[1]
Aidan Fowler (from 2020)[2]
Preceded byGina Radford
Succeeded byDr Thomas Waite (Interim)[3]
Personal details
Born
Jennifer Margaret Harries

~1960
Watford, Hertfordshire, England
EducationHaberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham
ProfessionPublic health physician[4]
Websitegov.uk/government/people/jenny-harries

Dame Jennifer Margaret "Jenny" Harries DBE is a British public health physician who has been the chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and head of NHS Test and Trace since May 2021. She was previously a regional director at Public Health England, and then Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England from June 2019 until her UKHSA appointment in 2021.

  1. ^ "Professor Chris Whitty". Gov.uk. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Dr Aidan Fowler". Gov.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  3. ^ "New interim deputy chief medical officer for England announced". Gov.uk. UK Government. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  4. ^ "General Medical Register". General Medical Council. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

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