Jenny Harries

Jennifer Harries
Chief Executive of the UK Health Security Agency
Assumed office
7 May 2021
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Keir Starmer
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)
Aidan Fowler (from 2020)
Preceded byGina Radford
Succeeded byDr Thomas Waite (Interim)
Personal details
Born
Jennifer Margaret Harries

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

Dame Jennifer Margaret 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.