Interview: Dr Alexander W. Macara

The Chairman of the Representative Body of the British Medical Association, Dr Alexander Macara, is Consultant Senior Lecturer in Community Medicine (Public Health Medicine), University of Bristol; Co‐Director of the World Health Organi‐zation Collaborating Centre on Environ‐mental Health Promotion and Ecology; an elected member of the General Medical Council and a member of Gloucester Health Authority; and Secretary‐General of the World Federation for Education and Research in Public Health. He is a former Treasurer of the Faculty of Com‐munity Medicine and former Chairman of the BMA Medical Ethics Committee.