Professor Tony Gatrell

Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medicine

Personal Introduction

Tony Gatrell is Professor of the Geography of Health at Lancaster University and Dean of the Faculty of Health & Medicine.

Prior to taking up this position he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and (from 1996-2004) was Director of the Institute for Health Research. Until 1996 he taught in the Department of Geography, where he arrived as a Lecturer in 1984.

Previously, he was a Lecturer in Geography at Salford University. This followed postgraduate study at Pennsylvania State University, where, under the supervision of the late Peter Gould, he received a Master's degree, then a PhD, in Geography. He held a Fulbright Scholarship at Penn State and for two years was a Graduate School Fellow.