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International Committee

International Committee

The International Committee aims:

  • To assist educational and professional exchange and dialogue between individual public health professionals, agencies and organisations in the United Kingdom and overseas.
  • To promote the standing, practice, research and the study of public health globally.
  • To support, engage and represent overseas members of the FPH.
Committee Members
  • Lindsey Davies - Chair
  • Sushma Acquilla - International Faculty Adviser
  • Mahmod Adil - Deputy International Faculty Adviser
  • Salman Rawaf - Special Adviser, Global Public Health Strategy
  • Irwin Friedman - International CPD Co-ordinator
  • Andrew Lee - Chair of International Trainees Group
  • Beccy Cooper - Vice Chair, International Trainees Group
  • Mala Rao - Appointed member
  • Toks Sangowawa - Appointed member
  • Suzanne Wood - Appointed member
  • Anne Findlay - Appointed member
  • Babatunde Olowokure - Appointed member
  • Sheena Parker - Appointed member
  • Premila Webster - Academic Registrar - Representative, FPH Education Committee
  • Nicholas Banatvala - UK Departments of Health representative
  • Delna Ghandhi - Department of International Development representative
  • Kenny Yap - Health Protection Agency representative
  • Angus Nicoll - Overseas Regional Adviser – Europe
  • Adetokunbo Lucas - Overseas Regional Adviser – Africa
  • Celia Poon-King - Overseas Regional Adviser – Americas
  • Hamda Abdulla Qotba - Overseas Regional Adviser – Eastern Mediterranean Region
  • Sian Griffiths - Overseas Regional Adviser – South & South East Asia
  • Becky Jenkins - Overseas Regional Adviser – Western Pacific (Australasia)

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International Trainees

The International Trainees Working Group is an informal network of people who are training in public health. It has no formal meetings and functions via a yahoo egroup, sharing knowledge and information. However, it does have terms of reference and a formally elected Chair and Vice-Chair who are members of the FPH International Committee. Within this committee, it has had a largely supportive role, through offering help in carrying out the committee’s work plan, and by providing feedback on training issues in particular.

Aims

  • To support the work of the FPH International Committee
  • To advocate for trainee issues relating to global public health

Objectives

  • To supply two full members of the FPH International Executive Committee and to attend their meetings (normally held in London four times a year)
  • To support, and to co-ordinate pieces of work, on behalf of the FPH International committee.
  • To advocate and support action on addressing global public health needs
  • To advocate for trainee issues relating to global public health
  • To raise issues of concern from the trainee group
  • To promote the Trainee Working Group
  • To moderate Trainee egroup as a forum for information exchange
  • To disseminate information of interest to the trainee e-group as and when available