Anthony John Fox (born 25 April 1946) is aBritishstatistician, who has worked in both the public service and academia.
He was born on 25 April 1946, the son ofFred Frank FoxOBE. He was educated atDauntsey's School,University College London (BSc) andImperial College London (PhD). He was a statistician at theEmployment Medical Advisory Service, 1970-5 and then the Medical Statistics Division of theOffice of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) until 1979. In the latter job, he helped to set up theEngland and Wales Longitudinal Survey, which monitors the health, address changes and fertility of a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales over time for statistical purposes.
During 1980–8, he was Professor of Social Statistics atCity University, building up his department into one of the world's leading centres for social statistics. He returned to OPCS in 1988 as theUnited Kingdom Chief Medical Statistician. In 1990, he took on the additional post of honorary professor at theLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
In 1996, following the creation of theOffice for National Statistics (ONS) (into which OPCS was incorporated), cuts in the senior Civil Service meant that his responsibilities were widened to include demographic statistics and he became Director of the Census, Population and Health Group there. In 1999, he moved to theDepartment of Health as Director of Statistics. Due to further cuts in senior statistical posts in the Civil Service, he soon became the most senior government statistician outside the ONS.
In 2004, he became the "Change Manager" responsible for setting up the new EnglishInformation Centre for Health and Social Care (since renamed the Health and Social Care Information Centre), which officially came into existence on 1 April 2005. This centre was anNHS special health authority, so he and his staff were part of the NHS. He was the Director of Customer and Stakeholder Engagement. The permanent Chief Executive from July 2005 is ProfessorDenise Lievesley, formerly director of Statistics atUNESCO.
John has published several books on mortality and health statistics.
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