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Public Health Standards and Knowledge Committees

Public Health Standards and Knowledge Committee

The Public Health Standards and Knowledge Committee is responsible for:

  • ensuring, through work on developing systems within the Faculty and its membership, that the highest standards of public health practice are attained and maintained;
  • recommending to the Faculty Board the structures and processes by which high quality public health practice can be achieved through public health governance, including:
    • standards and competencies for public health practice;
    • guidance on how best to achieve continuing professional development and audit;
    • principles and mechanisms for appraisal and revalidation in public health practice.
  • monitoring equivalence of standards between the different types of specialists being developed by the Faculty and by the UK Public Health Register, and recommending any necessary action;
  • overseeing the Faculty’s work on the development of practitioners;
  • overseeing the Faculty’s work on public health knowledge, including research, and information and intelligence.

The committee meets four times a year.

Committee administrator – .

Committee Members
  • Steve George - Chair (FPH Vice President) and Chair, Journal Board
  • Jeremy Hawker - Registrar
  • David Williams - Academic Registrar
  • Ben Anderson - Chair, Trainee Members Committee
  • Jennifer Kurinczuk - Chair of Part A Examination
  • Chris Packham - Chair of Part B Examination
  • Anne Mackie - Director of CPD
  • Di Roffe - Director of Practitioner Development
  • Ian Harvey - Chair, Research Committee
  • Mike Catchpole - Chair, Information & Intelligence Committee
  • Premila Webster - Assistant Academic Registrar
  • Peter Littlejohns - Rep, NICE

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CPD Co-ordinators

The Co-ordinators normally meet quarterly for a business and information exchange meeting, chaired by the CPD Director. The Vice Chair is the Deputy CPD Director and supports the CPD Director and the Faculty more generally. The CPD Co-ordinators Committee reports to the Faculty Board via the Standards Committee.

Meeting Dates for 2010
  • 10.30.-14.00 Wednesday 17 March 2010
  • 10.30.-14.00 Wednesday 23 June 2010
  • 10.30.-14.00 Wednesday 29 September 2010
  • 10.30.-14.00 Wednesday 1 December 2010
Committee Members
  • Dr Anne Mackie - CPD Director, Chair
  • Dr Toyin Ejidokun - Deputy CPD Director, CPD Co-ordinator, South West
  • Dr Linda Sheridan - CPD Co-ordinator, East of England
  • Dr Sarah Meredith - CPD Co-ordinator, London
  • Dr Ruth Milton - CPD Co-ordinator, South East Coast
  • Dr Ljuba Stirzaker - CPD Co-ordinator, South Central (Thames Valley)
  • Dr Paul Bingham - CPD Co-ordinator, South Central (Hants & IoW)
  • Dr Isabel Perez-Teruel - CPD Co-ordinator, East Midlands
  • Dr Toks Sangowawa - CPD Co-ordinator, North East
  • Dr Martin Schweiger - CPD Co-ordinator, Y&H
  • Dr Lorraine Lighton - CPD Co-ordinator, North West
  • Dr Huda Mohammed - CPD Co-ordinator, West Midlands
  • Dr Anne Scoular - CPD Co-ordinator, Scotland
  • Dr Judith Greenacre - CPD Co-ordinator, Wales
  • Dr Tracy Owen - CPD Co-ordinator, NI
  • Dr Fortune Ncube - CPD Co-ordinator, HPA
  • Dr Andrew Terrell - CPD Co-ordinator, DMS
  • Dr Marilena Korkodilos - CPD Co-ordinator, DoH
  • Dr Irwin Friedman - CPD Co-ordinator, International
  • Laura Webb - Head of Professional Affairs
  • Krisztina Wormald - CPD Administrator, Committee Secretary

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Research Committee

The Committee shall be made up of individuals working in both the university and non-university sectors (which may include the NHS, central and local government, agencies such as the Health Protection Agency, Health Development Agency and others). There shall be a member representing the Trainee Members Committee.

Committee Members
  • Ian Harvey - Chair
  • Alan Maryon-Davis - Committee Member
  • Stephen George - Committee Member, Vice-President
  • Peter Burnley - Committee Member
  • Aileen Clarke - Committee Member
  • Angus Nicoll - Committee Member
  • Anne Johnson - Committee Member
  • Antony Morgan - Committee Member
  • Catherine Pritchard - Committee Member
  • Clifford McKee - Committee Member
  • David Pencheon - Committee Member
  • Frank Kee - Committee Member
  • Fu-Meng Khaw - Committee Member
  • Jill Pell - Committee Member
  • Laurence Moore - Committee Member
  • Margaret Whitehead - Committee Member
  • Michael Catchpole - Committee Member
  • Michael Kelly - Committee Member
  • Sarah O’Brien - Committee Member

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Information and Intelligence Committee

The Information and Intelligence Committee forms a focus for the assessment of information requirements of public health physicians. It currently meets three times a year to:

  • provide professional advice to the UK Department of Health on the development and use of public health information (where requested it would advise the relevant government departments in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland)
  • co-ordinate the FPH input into nationally organised information groups
  • interpret public health information
  • assist directors of public health in the production of their annual reports.
Committee Members
  • Mike Catchpole - Chair
  • Colin Fischbacher  - Scotland representative
  • John Newton - DH representative
  • John Steward - Wales representative
  • Patsy Bailey
  • Claire Bradford
  • Parul Desai
  • Julian Flowers
  • Fay Haffenden
  • Alison MacFarlane
  • Hugh Markowe
  • Andy Mobbs
  • Michael Soljak
  • Richard Turner
Minutes

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Journal Board

The Journal Board is responsible for:

  • the financial management and audit of the Journal of Public Health;
  • providing an interface between the Faculty and the publishers (OUP);
  • monitoring the activities of the editors and Editorial Board;
  • reviewing the performance of the journal;
  • exploring ways in which the journal can support the activities of the Faculty.

The board generally meets once a year.

Committee administrator – .

Committee Members
  • Steve George - Chair (FPH Vice President)
  • Liz Scott - Treasurer
  • Selena Gray - Joint Editor
  • Gabriel Leung - Joint Editor
  • Ron Gray - FPH Board member
  • VACANT - Representatives, OUP

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Working Groups

Practitioner Development Working Group meetings

Read more about the Practioner Development Working Group and the Public Health Workforce Programme Management Group here.

Revalidation Working Group

Read more about the Revalidation Working Group here.