Sir Douglas Andrew Kilgour Black (29 May 1913 – 13 September 2002)[1] was a Scottish physician and medical scientist who played a key role in the development of the National Health Service.
He was born in Delting Shetland in 1913,[1] educated at Forfar Academy, and studied medicine at the Bute Medical School, University of St Andrews, graduating with MB ChB in 1933.
He also served as the president of the British Medical Association and took an uncompromising stand against the apartheid regime in South Africa.
In the 1970s Black was asked by the Labour government of the UK to chair an expert committee to investigate health inequalities.
Later, Black chaired the UK government investigation into childhood leukaemia around the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield, Cumbria, England.