Public Health Laboratory Service: Research and Scientific Strategy Committee papers LILLY/F/340-341 are Malcolm Lilly's committee papers regarding the 11 April 1997 meeting of the Research and Scientific Strategy Committee (SSRC). Includes a copy of the agenda. In July 1988 Lilly was invited on behalf of the Secretary of State for the Department of Health and Social Security to serve as a member of the Public Health Laboratory Service Board. In 1993 the PHLS Board established a Research and Scientific Strategy Committee (RSSC) to be responsible for developing its R&D policy and broad strategy and for setting up a mechanism for the assessment of R&D at the project level. Lilly was invited to join this new Committee and serve as a member of a small Strategic Review Group under an independent Chairman. Lilly's initial appointment to the Board was for three years from 1 August 1998. This was renewed for a further three years to 31 July 1994. After that date he continued as a member of the RSSC until 1998 when he resigned for health reasons. 1996