Current Appointments:
Chairman, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science
Director and Trustee, UK Stem Cell Foundation
Advisory Board, Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
Trustee, Sense About Science
Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
Honorary Fellow, Academy of Experimental Criminology
Honorary Fellow, University College London
Honorary Doctorate, Queen's University Belfast
Visiting Professor, University College London
Board of Trustees, Crimestoppers
Trustee, Dfuse
President, HealthWatch
Royal College of Physicians Committee on Ethical Issues in Medicine
Ethics Standards Advisory Panel, onCore (UK cancer tissue bank)
Chairman, Wales Cancer Bank Advisory Board
President, London Road Safety Council
Hon Vice President, Institute of Advanced Motorists
Affiliate, The James Lind Alliance
President, Tacade
Ambassador, World Wildlife Fund
Adviser RBS Group MoneySense
Patron, Dignity in Dying
Former Appointments:
Guest Director, 2008 Cheltenham Science Festival
Director, HQS (Health Quality Service)
Chairman Science Book Prize 1991 and 2006
Advisory Board, Crime Concern
Advisory Board, Victim Support
COPUS (Committee on the Public Understanding of Science)
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Expert Advisor on Drugs, Health Education Authority
Academy of Medical Sciences / Royal Society / Wellcome Trust Working Party on the use of non-human primates in research
Vice Chairman, National Road Safety Committee RoSPA
Member of Council, Institute of Advanced Motorists
National Consumer Council Commission into Public Services
Defeat Depression Campaign
Rationing Action Group (on health priorities)
The Royal Society Project Science Steering Committee
Patron:
Animal Care Trust
Apex Trust
British Wireless for the Blind Fund
Jewish Association for the Mentally Ill
Kidney Research Aid Fund
Myasthenia Gravis Association
Missing People
NICHS
Prisoners Abroad
Raynaud's & Scleroderma Association
Resources for Autism
SaneLine
Simon Community Northern Ireland
Young at Heart