UK Faculty of Public Health

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

• Pat Troop - Chair
• Sushma Acquilla - International Faculty Adviser
• Salman Rawaf - Special Adviser, Global Public Health Strategy
• Irwin Friedman - International CPD Co-ordinator
• Annette Luker - Chair, Global Health Specialty Registrars Group
  
• Mala Rao - Appointed member
• Toks Sangowawa - Appointed member
• Anne Findlay - Appointed member
• Sheena Parker - Appointed member
• Jammi Rao - General Board Member
• Premila Webster - Academic Registrar, representating Education Committee
• Peter Sheridan – Assistant Registrar, representing Professional Affairs Committee
• Neil Squires - Department for International Development
• Kenny Yap - Health Protection Agency
• Angus Nicoll - Overseas Regional Adviser – Europe
• Lola Dare - Overseas Regional Adviser – Africa
• Celia Poon-King - Overseas Regional Adviser – Americas
• Hamda Abdulla Qotba - Overseas Regional Adviser – Eastern Mediterranean Region
• Peter Horby - Overseas Regional Adviser – South & South East Asia
• Becky Jenkins - Overseas Regional Adviser – Western Pacific (Australasia)

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Global Health Specialty Registrars Group

The Global Health Specialty Registrars 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 who is a member 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

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