Chair
Professor Clair Chilvers
Professor Clair Chilvers became Chair of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust in January 2007. She was Director of Research for the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) at the Department of Health. CSIP incorporates the National Institute for Mental Health in England. She was also Director of the Department of Health's Forensic Mental Health Research and Development Programme.
Clair spent most of her career researching causes of cancer at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. She moved to Nottingham in 1990 to be Professor of Epidemiology at Nottingham University Medical School and latterly Dean of the University's Graduate School. She joined the Department of Health in 1999 as Director of Research and Development for Trent Region. She was also Director of the NHS R&D Portfolio in Mental Health at the Department, working to ensure that mental health policy was based on the best evidence. She instigated and was the inaugural chair of the Mental Health Research Funders Group. During that time she was a member of the BME Programme Board and is committed to equality and diversity in the workplace and in the delivery of mental health services.
She is committed to ensuring that the service user voice is at the centre of mental health service development and delivery. Developing the mental health research infrastructure and increasing the volume of funding for mental health and related social care research is an important part of this commitment.
She has been a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, has been a non-executive director of a number of public sector organisations, was inaugural Chair of Southwell Cathedral Council and is a trustee of the Lloyds TSB Foundation.