Lord Nigel
physics
IHI
Denmark
Biography
Lord Nigel Crisp is an independent crossbench member of the House of Lords in the UK and works mainly on international development and global health. He is Strategic Advisor to the CEO on Global Health and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. The former Chief Executive of the National Health Service (NHS) and Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health, he led major reforms in the English health system. Prior to joining the NHS, he served as Chief Executive of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust. He also co-chaired an international Task Force on increasing the education and training of health workers in developing countries, and subsequently co-founded the Zambia UK Health Workforce Alliance in 2009 to implement some of the Task Force's proposals. He is an Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and an Honorary Fellow of St. John's College in Cambridge and of the Royal College of Physicians.
Research Interest
He chairs or is an advisory board or trustee member of numerous organizations, including Sightsavers International, African Centre for Health and Social Development, the Global Health Programme at the Aspen Institute, and RAND Europe, among others. He is author of the book Turning the World Upside Down: The Search for Global Health in the 21st Century.
