Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh is Chair of Primary Care Research and Development, Director of the Usher Institute and Dean of Data at the University of Edinburgh. He is also Director of the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research (AUKCAR) and Director of the Health Data Research UK BREATHE Hub.

Aziz holds a number of visiting chairs, namely: University of Birmingham (UK), Queen Mary’s University of London (UK) and Maastricht University (Netherlands).  He was previously Visiting Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

He is an editorial board member of BMC Medicine, Health Informatics Journal, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Medical Care and PLOS Medicine, and is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Quality in Health Care.

Aziz also holds the following positions; Chair, Building Health System Resilience: Lessons from COVID-19, World Innovation Summit for Health; Chair, Data-enabled Responses to Pandemics: Policy Lessons from COVID-19 World Innovation Summit for Health. In addition; Expert Witness, House of Commons Science and Technology Committee - Right to Privacy: digital data; MRC Major Investments Board and Member of The Royal Society Expert Working Group programme on non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs).

Aziz was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for ‘Services to Medicine and Health Care’ in 2014 and a Knight Bachelor in 2022 for ‘Services to COVID-19 Research and Policy’ by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.