Jason Leitch, Mph

Biography

Jason Leitch, MPH, National Clinical Director, Healthcare Quality and Strategy, Scottish Government, has worked for the Scottish Government since 2007. In January 2015 he was appointed as the National Clinical Director in the Health and Social Care Directorate. He is a Scottish Government Director, a member of the Health and Social Care Management Board, and one of the senior team responsible for the National Health Service in Scotland. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee. Professor Leitch was named the 2011 UK Clinician of the Year. In 2005-2006, he was a Quality Improvement Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, sponsored by the Health Foundation. He is a trustee of the UK wing of the Indian Rural Evangelical Fellowship, which runs orphanages in southeast India. He has a doctorate from the University of Glasgow, an MPH from Harvard, and is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.  

Research Interest

research interest in clinical health care and ophans