The government’s most senior medical adviser is stepping down to become the first female master of Cambridge University’s largest college. Professor Dame Sally Davies, who was also the first woman to hold her current post, will leave for Trinity College in September after nine years as England’s chief medical officer. She used the job to lead a global campaign to fight the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs and became an increasingly vocal on obesity and drinking. She recently embraced the title of the nation’s “chief nanny”, though she said that seeing her in this way was a sign of sexism. Dame Sally, 69, worked in the NHS for 30 years as a consultant haematologist specialising in sickle cell disease before moving into government and said it…

Source: The Times February 08, 2019 12:05 UTC