Ethics Committee

Steven Bow is a Fellow of the FPH, Chair of the FPH Ethics Committee and Public Health Ethics Special Interest Group, and currently working as a Consultant in Public Health leading the West Berkshire Council Public Health team. He has published papers on moral distress and injury in the public health workforce, and on public health ethics.

Sridhar Venkatapuram is an inter-disciplinary academic-practitioner in public/global health ethics and justice. He is an Associate Professor at King’s College London. He has over 30 years of public health experience and has worked with organizations including WHO (HQ), NHS, Wellcome Trust, BMA, Human Rights Watch, and others. He lectures widely and publishes research on public health and global health ethics; global and health justice philosophy; capabilities approach; social determinants of health; and health equity. His X name is @sridhartweet.

Ardiana is a Consultant in Public Health in Wales and represents Wales on the Ethics Committee.

Bruce is a retired Fellow of the Faculty and former Director of Public Health at Bath and North East Somerset Council.

Fiona Sim OBE is a public health physician, appraiser, former GP, and a visiting professor at the University of Bedfordshire. She has longstanding interests in addressing health inequalities, obesity, and capacity building for public health. She has past senior roles in public health, medical leadership and medical education. She was a former Chair of the Royal Society of Public Health and past Editor-in-Chief of Public Health.

Helen is an experienced public health consultant with broad experience in varied public health settings, a research doctorate, and a background in clinical medicine. She has a strong interest in ethics, health inequalities, digital healthcare, AI and screening, and is also a current member of the British Medical Journal Ethics Committee. 

Jasmine is a specialty registrar in public health based in Wales.

John Coggon is Professor of Law in the Centre for Health, Law, and Society, at the University of Bristol Law School. He is author of the book ‘What Makes Health Public?’ (CUP, 2012). His work on law and the philosophy of public health contributes to research, teaching, policy, and practice.

Sir Jonathan is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and Professor of Health Care Law at University College London.

Kevin is a public and global health ethics and law scholar who is passionate about developing innovative ideas and transmitting them to students and professionals. He is a Lecturer in Health Law and Ethics at Keele University.

Paul is a specialty registrar in public health based in Scotland.

Peter is Emeritus Professor of Public Health in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London. In 1998 he was appointed the chief scientist on a BIOMED II project to create a European critical appraisal instrument for clinical guidelines. This resulted in the creation of the AGREE ( Appraising Guidelines, Research and Evaluation )  instrument which has been endorsed by the European Union, the World Health Organisation and the  Council of Europe as the standard approach to assessing the quality of clinical guidelines. It has since been translated into 25  languages http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12571340. From 1999-2012 he was the Founding Clinical and Public Health Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).From 2013-2019 he was the Public Health Lead and Deputy Director of the National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC), South London.

From 2019-2023 he was the Public Health Lead and Deputy Director of the National Institute for Health funded Applied Research Collaboration South London. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Faculty of Public Health. His research and teaching interests are focused on achieving effective, efficient and fair health care systems. He has recently published “Making Health Public: a manifesto for a new social contract” and “NICE at 25 a quarter century of evidence values and innovation”

Rachel is a Consultant in Public Health in the South West of England.  She had a medical background and longstanding interests in global health, human ‘flourishing’, justice and peace, and the creative arts.

Rachel is a joint member of the FPH Global Health and Ethics Committees, and is also chair of the FPH Yemen Special Interest Group and convenor of a small global network of ‘Public Health Practitioners for Peace’.  She is keen to support our UK and global public health workforces to use ethics to explore and address complex public health issues.

Rob Davies is an independent Consultant in Public Health. He combines critical thinking with plain language writing to mobilise health science for public benefit, including for The Economist Ltd, the NHS and local government. His recent focus is advancing moral reasoning to strengthen decision-making in leadership and civic life.

Sarah is a Professor of Bioethics at University College London.

Sharifah is Professor of Global Health Law at the University of Warwick and Director of the Centre for Global Health Law.

Simon is a Consultant in Public Health at Derbyshire County Council.

Thomas Schramme is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He specialises in moral and political philosophy, as well as philosophy of medicine. He has published the book Theories of Health Justice: Just Enough Health (2018) and co-edited the Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine. Second Edition (2025). 

Vikki is Professor of Health Services Research and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen.