title: Graham Winyard
text: # Graham Winyard
  
  Graham Winyard CBE FRCP FFPH (born January 1947) is a public health physician who was medical director of the National Health Service in England from 1993 to 1999 and deputy chief medical officer of the NHS in England. He is a member of Health Professionals for Assisted Dying. He is an associate of Hertford College, University of Oxford.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Graham Winyard was born in January 1947. He was educated at a grammar school and was the first of his family to attend university. He studied medicine at Hertford College, University of Oxford, and at the Middlesex Hospital.
  
  ## Career
  
  Winyard practiced as a public health physician and was medical director of the National Health Service in England from 1993 to 1999 and deputy chief medical officer of the NHS in England.
  
  He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health.
  
  ## Other activities
  
  Winyard took a master's degree in religion at SOAS. He has converted to Buddhism and is a lay treasurer of a Theravada forest monastery in West Sussex.
  
  He is a member of Health Professionals for Assisted Dying.
  
  He is an associate of Hertford College, University of Oxford.
  
  Winyard was appointed Commander of the Order of British Empire.
  
  