Kevin Fenton
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Kevin Fenton | |
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| Born | 19 December 1966 |
| Alma mater | University of the West Indies London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine University College London |
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| Institutions | Health Protection Agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| Thesis | Race, ethnicity and the epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections (2005) |
Kevin Andrew Fenton (born 19 December 1966[1]) is a public health physician and infectious disease epidemiologist. He is the London regional director at Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, regional public health director at NHS London and the statutory health advisor to the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. He is the current president of the United Kingdom Faculty of Public Health and holds honorary professorships with the University College London and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is the 2024/25 president of the British Science Association.[2]
He was formerly national director for health and wellbeing at Public Health England (2012-2017) and director of the United States National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2005-2012).
Fenton was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Sydney and Carmen Fenton. He grew up in Jamaica, where his father was head of the science department at Excelsior High School and his mother was a nurse at the hospital of the University of the West Indies (UWI). Fenton attended Wolmer's Boys' School in Kingston where he completed O-Levels and A-Levels before graduating. He then went on to attend The UWI, initially as a computer science major, but later graduated with an MD from the UWI Medical School, where he was elected class president for the 1985–86 school year. He completed residencies at Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay and University College Hospital in Kingston.[1]
