Dr Felicity Harvey
Visiting Professor, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, former Director General for Public and International Health, HMG UK
Biography
Dr Felicity
Harvey CBE is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Global Health
Innovation, Imperial College London, and holds Non-Executive Director health
roles, including on the Board of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust,
London, and was a former Chair of IOAC.
She was
Director-General of Public and International Health at the UK Department of
Health between April 2012 and June 2016, when she retired. There she was an
Executive member of the Department of Health Board, and Sponsor of Public
Health England, lead DG for international public health.
Prior to
this she was Director of the UK Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit; Head of the
Medicines, Pharmacy and Industry Group at the Department of Health; Director of
Prison Health for Her Majesty’s Prison Service; Head of Quality Management at
NHS Executive; and Private Secretary to the Chief Medical Officer.
Dr Harvey
qualified in medicine in 1980, specializing in medical microbiology. She was
later seconded to Henley Management College to study for an international MBA.
She is a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and Honorary Fellow of the
Royal College of Physicians in the UK.