Donald Acheson
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Sir Donald Acheson is a British physician and epidemiologist. He was Chief Medical Officer (1984-1991) to the British government (at the Department of Health) and had previously been the first Dean of the new Medical School at the University of Southampton. He is especially known for the eponymous Acheson Report on inequalities in health, commissioned by the new Blair government in 1997 and produced by a committee which he chaired.