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.

Name Position on Committee
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
Rob Cooper 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
Sam Ramaiah Assistant Registrar
Premila Webster Assistant Academic Registrar

 

Committee administrator – Caroline Wren (carolinewren@fph.org.uk).