Professor Gurch Randhawa has worked as an NHS Board member in both Chair and Non-Executive Director roles since 1997.
He is currently a Professor of Diversity in Public Health and Director of the Institute for Health and Wellbeing Research at the University of Bedfordshire. In this role he is leading a programme of research related to equity and social justice across for the population from pre-conception to end of life, using inter-faith and inter-cultural approaches to develop of patient-centred care pathways.
Gurch’s work has taken him around the world, to Canada, India, the Middle East and countries across the European Union. He is an Expert Advisor to World Health Organisation on Organ Donation & Transplantation, and has previously served in national roles, and is currently serving as a Non-Executive Director at Forestry England, and as a Member of the Mental Health Advisory Group at the Race & Health Observatory, He is also working with the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life on the Religious dialogue and Organ Donation project.
Gurch holds several roles across the community, including serving as His Majesty’s Vice Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, Ambassador at Keech Hospice Care, Patron of Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity and as a volunteer at Luton Sikh Soup Kitchen.