Chris Naylor joined The King's Fund in 2007 and conducts research on various areas of health policy. His key areas of interest include mental health, commissioning, health inequalities, and the environmental sustainability of health care systems.

Chris previously worked as a researcher at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and the Institute of Psychiatry, and holds an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Prior to this he read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University.