Chris Whitty

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Christopher John MacRae Whitty CB FRCP FFPH FMedSci (born 21 April 1966) is a British consultant physician and epidemiologist, who is Chief Medical Officer for England (CMO), Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government, Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) at the Department of Health and Social Care and Head of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

In March 2020, Whitty took a leading role in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the United Kingdom. During the outbreak, BBC health editor Hugh Pym called him "the official who will probably have the greatest impact on our everyday lives of any individual policymaker in modern times".