Head of MHRA has ‘devoted whole life to public health’, says former colleague
In the summer of 2019, Dr June Raine seemed close to finally putting her feet up. At 67, she was director of the vigilance and risk management of medicines at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, a role that is roughly as important and impenetrable to the layperson as it sounds.
After an exemplary but obscure 35-year career in public health, she might have been forgiven for relishing the prospect of retirement and more time to devote to her passions of travelling and going to the opera. As it turns out, that wasn’t an option in 2020.
