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Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientists with me, Chris Smith.

And now it's time for the finale of our Titans of Science summer series in which

we've been profiling some of the greats behind some of the most exciting developments

in science over the years. This week's guest is England's former chief medical officer, now the master of Trinity

College, Cambridge, Dame Sally Davies was born in Birmingham on the 24th of November 1949. She was

chief medical officer between 2010 and 2019, and also the Chief Scientific

Advisor at the Department of Health from 2004 to 2016. Her father was an Anglican priest and a theologian, her mother a scientist.

They both became academics at the University of Birmingham. She attended EdgeBeston High School

for Girls in Birmingham where she also excelled in science and the viola.

Dame Sally's remarkable career has included working on treatment of diseases of the blood and bone marrow. She helped to found the National Institute for Health and

Care Research, worked at the WHO, and she's now master of Trinity College, Cambridge, where

we're meeting today. Let's begin at the beginning then. Tell us about the early years. You ended up as a scientist

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