Dr Charles Alessi is a GP in south-west London. He is Senior Adviser to Public Health England and in addition acts in a variety of external facing positions with government and other agencies. He is also lead for dementia and risk reduction and recently was appointed as director of antibiotic prescribing for Public Health England as part of the Antimicrobial resistance initiative.
He has extensive experience of health care in a variety of senior positions in both primary and secondary care as well as PCTs and Health Authorities, assuming the role of Chairman of National Association of Primary Care, part of the NHS confederation, from 1st January 2012 until September 2014 where he was at the heart of the recent health and social care reforms. Previously as Medical director and PEC chair, he was intimately involved in the running and setting up of the Kingston Clinical Commissioning Group providing services to over 195,000 patients, 29 practices and over a 130 GPs.
He has extensive experience of working at senior levels both internationally, in both Europe and the Americas. He is internationally active advising both Governments and international organisations. He also has experience of military medicine until recently acting as Director of Medicine and Clinical Governance for the British Armed Forces in Germany.
On the 1st July 2012 Dr Alessi was appointed Adjunct Research Professor in the faculty of Health Innovation at the Ivey School of Business, and on the 1st July 2013, he was also appointed Adjunct Research Professor in clinical neurosciences at the Schulich school of Medicine and Dentistry, both appointments at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. In September 2014, he was appointed visiting Professor in Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London, England
In January 2016, he assumed the role of Visiting Scholar at the world health innovation network at the Odette school of business, University of Windsor, Ontario Canada.
