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Board of Directors

Professor Jon Glasby, Non-Executive Director

Professor Jon GlasbyNon-Executive Director

Jon is the Senior Independent Director on the Board. He is a qualified social worker by background and works as Professor of Health and Social Care at the University of Birmingham, where he specialises in research, teaching and policy advice around joint working between health and social care.

From 2008 to 2015, he was Director of the University’s Health Services Management Centre (HSMC), and from 2015 – 20 was Head of the School of Social Policy. He has previously served as a Non-Executive Director (NED) at Birmingham Children’s Hospital (2010 – 2015) and HEFT (2015 – 2018), has been a trustee of the UK Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE, 2003 – 2009) and is a NED of Birmingham Children’s Trust.

Jon is also a Fellow of the RSA, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Senior Fellow of the NIHR School for Social Care Research and Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Health, Curtin University, Western Australia.

Email: Jon.Glasby@uhb.nhs.uk