Patrick Vernon
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Patrick Vernon

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Patrick is a Clore and Winston Churchill Fellow, Fellow of Goodenough College, Fellow at Imperial War Museum, Fellow of Royal Historical Society, and former associate fellow for the department of history of medicine at Warwick University. and Patrick was awarded an OBE in 2012 for his work on tackling health inequalities and ethnic minority communities. Patrick is also Independent Non- Executive Director of Birmingham and Solihull ICS where he leads on inequalities, chair of Citizenship Partnership for HSIB and Non-Executive Director for Hertfordshire NHS Trust He is also. Associate Director for Connected Communities for the Centre for Ageing Better. Trustee for 38 Degrees. Since 2010 he has been leading the campaign for national Windrush Day and in 2018 kick-started the campaign for an amnesty for the Windrush Generation as part of the Windrush Scandal. In 2018 he received an honorary PhD from Wolverhampton University and was selected as one of the 1000 Progressive Londoner by the Evening Standard. In 2019 he was awarded a lifetime achievement award for campaigning and advocacy work by the SMK Foundation. In 2020 Patrick was selected by British Vogue as of Britain’s top 20 campaigners and was included in the 2020 Power list of 100 influential Black People in Britain.
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