The Faculty of Public Health has today published our Fair Training Strategy 2025 – 30, setting out how we will work alongside relevant stakeholders to tackle differential attainment and embed equity and inclusion across the public health specialty training pathway.
Public health is a discipline rooted in principles of equity and justice, and this new strategy – delivered as part of our Fair Training Culture workstream – underscores the Faculty’s commitment to ensuring that public health reflects these values within its own systems.
Developed following several years of detailed analysis into differential attainment in recruitment to public health specialty training and performance in Faculty examinations, this new strategy seeks to address persistent gaps in outcomes for trainees from ethnic minority backgrounds, international medical graduates, multi-professional entrants, and other groups currently facing disadvantage.
The strategy outlines seven key strategic priorities: leadership and advocacy, stakeholder engagement, data intelligence, fair recruitment practices, inclusive curriculum and assessments, fair training pathways, and inclusive working and learning environments. The strategy sets out what success looks like in each area, and clarifies FPH’s role alongside Statutory Education Bodies and other key partners.
With many other specialties addressing differential attainment the Faculty is pleased to be leading work in this area, and this latest strategy represents an important milestone in building a more equitable public health workforce that better reflects the populations it serves.
