Harpreet Kohli

Harpreet retired in 2017 as Director of Public Health (DPH) and an Executive Board Member of NHS Lanarkshire. He has extensive experience of working in public health including health improvement, health protection, and health service improvement.

After completing his medical degree at Edinburgh University, Harpreet undertook GP and then public health training. He worked as a consultant in public health in Lanarkshire and NHS Quality Improvement Scotland. He returned to Lanarkshire in 2008 as DPH to head the public health department, and had responsibility for information governance, resilience (emergency planning and business continuity), and tackling health inequalities.

Harpreet is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Glasgow University, a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (FFPH), and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow (FRCP (Glas)). He is on the Steering Group of Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP), and a Board Trustee of UK-Med, a UK charity.