Pamela Gillies

Pamela Gillies, CBE, FRSA, FAcSS, FRSE (born 1953) is a Scottish academic and educator, appointed as Principal/Vice-Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University in March 2006.

The first in her family to go to University, Pamela Gillies attended Aberdeen University from which she graduated in 1976 with a BSc in Physiology, a PGCE and a Masters in Education and Philosophy. In 1976 she was awarded a competitive Scottish Home and Health Department Fellowship to train in community health in England and graduated first with an MMedSci and then subsequently with a Ph.D in Epidemiology from the University of Nottingham.

She began her research career in 1978 as a research officer with the Department of Education in Sheffield evaluating health promotion initiatives and moved back to Nottingham in 1984 to take up a Lectureship in Public Health Medicine. She moved through the ranks to Senior Lecturer, Professor of Public Health and Head of the School of Community Health Sciences before becoming a Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham in 2001.

During her career, Pamela has worked in San Francisco on an Abbott Fellowship for AIDS Research (1988), in Geneva at the World Health Organisation's Global Programme on AIDS (1989), at Harvard as a Harkness Fellow and Visiting Professor in Health and Human Rights (1992–93) and in London on a seconded post as the first Executive Director of Research at the Health Education Authority for England (1996–99).

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