We are excited to welcome you all to a special series of episodes in partnership with the Faculty of Public Health to showcase the candidates running in the 2024 Faculty of Public Health elections.

We will be joined by the candidates for President and Vice president and will be exploring their vision for the Faculty of Public Health and why members should consider voting for them.

Voting opens on Thursday 14 November and closes on Thursday 12 December.

In the first episode of the series - we have the pleasure of hosting Presidential candidate, Professor Tracy Daszkiewicz:

Tracy is a well-known and proven public health leader with nearly three decades experience working across the public health system - including NHS, local government, civil service and voluntary sector. 

Tracy has developed her senior leadership skills across a wide range of roles in her career including as Director of Public Health at Wiltshire council where she played a pivotal leadership role in the response to the 2018 Novichok poisoning incident in Salisbury. 

She also held roles as the Deputy Director of Population Health and Wellbeing at Public Health England and the Director of Public Health for Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham Borough councils

She is currently the executive director for public health and Strategic Partnerships at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board in Wales, current Vice President of the Faculty of Public Health and a visiting professor at the University of the West England in Bristol. She is also a visiting lecturer at Exeter University and a Trustee of the Swindon Domestic Abuse Support service.

00:00 Introduction

02:19 Why Professor Daszkiewicz is running for FPH President

04:07 Professor Daszkiewicz's 3 year vision and priorities

07:03 Plan to address the needs of FPH members

11:33 Professor Daszkiewicz's leadership brand

We are excited to welcome you all to a special series of episodes in partnership with the Faculty of Public Health to showcase the candidates running in the 2024 Faculty of Public Health elections.

We will be joined by the candidates for President and Vice president and will be exploring their vision for the Faculty of Public Health and why members should consider voting for them.

Voting opens on Thursday 14 November and closes on Thursday 12 December.

In the second episode in the series, we are joined by Dr. David Walker:

David has over 3 decades experience working across the public health system - both nationally and internationally. David originally trained in medicine and infectious diseases before training in public health.

David has developed his senior leadership skills across a wide range of roles in his career - including as a CCDC in Durham, Director of Public Health in Newcastle and North Tyneside, Regional director of Public Health for the North-east and as the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England between 2013 and 2015. 

He also held a number of senior roles including Chair of the UK National Screening Committee and national lead for Rare Diseases as well as a number of academic Professorial appointments across a number of universities.

More recently, David retired from his role as the chief medical officer at the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation trust, one of the largest acute trusts in the Country.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction

02:16 Why Dr. Walker wants to be FPH President

07:40 Vision for FPH

13:34 Addressing the needs of members

16:05 Dr. Walker's leadership brand

In this episode we sat down with Chikwe and Vivianne Ihekweazu to talk about their public health careers and the experiences shared in their new book called 'An Imperfect Storm: A memoir of a pandemic and the coming of age of a Nigerian institution."

Vivianne Ihekweazu is currently the Managing Director of Nigeria Health Watch. A health communication and advocacy organisation based in Nigeria that advocates for improved health and access to health care. Vivianne has over 20 years experience in health communication and has built her skillset over a range of leading communications and research agencies across Europe and Africa in the development, media and real estate sectors. 

She has an MBA from the Gordon Institute of Business Science, an MSc in Development economic and is currently an African Public Health Leaders Fellow at Chatham House. Vivianne’s work has ranged across a number of key areas in global health including maternal, newborn and child health as well as immunisation and health security. She played a leading role in the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria - supporting the Nigeria centre for Disease Control in public health communication and developing guidelines.

Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu is the Assistant Director-General for the Division of Health Emergency Intelligence and Surveillance Systems in the WHO Emergencies Programme. He leads the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence - a global collaboration that aims to address future pandemics with better access to data, better analytical capacities and better tools for decision making.

Chikwe has over 25 years experience in epidemiology and public health and served as the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control between 2016 and 2021. He has developed skills across a number of senior public health and leadership positions including at the South African Institute for Communicable Diseases, the UK’s former Health Protection Agency and Germany’s Robert Koch Institute. He has also completed the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training as well as the UK public health speciality training programme in 2008.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Teaser and introductions

03:08 The story of the book

07:29 Early years at the Nigeria CDC

11:28 Motivating staff during challenging times

21:00 Inspirational stories of staff

23:18 Public health communication during uncertainty

28:40 Public trust and infodemic management

31:56 Politics and public health

35:43 Personal toll

42:23 A love letter to Nigeria

46:45 Brain drain and global equity

49:30 Parachute research from high-income countries

52:10 Career tips

Episode 4 of our special series in partnership with the Faculty of Public Health where we explore one key question - What is Public Health?

It may seem like a simple question, but Public Health is no single thing. The aim of the series is to shine a light on the breadth of Public Health and the challenges ahead by talking to key figures in the field.

This episode we sat down with Professor Yvonne Doyle. Yvonne is a medical doctor by background with over 30 years experience in public health and has worked across a range of senior leadership roles across the NHS, Department of Health, UKHSA and academia. 

Between 2013 and 2019 she was appointed Director of Public Health for London and was the Statutory Health Advisor to two London Mayors. In 2016 she was awarded a CB for her contribution to improving public health. 

In 2019 she was appointed as the medical director and Director of Health Protection for Public Health England and played a pivotal role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022 she was appointed as the first NHS medical director for public health. And in April last year she partially retired but has maintained an active role in public health across the system. 

CHAPTERS

00:00 Teaser and introduction

03:41 Yvonne's career

06:25 What is Public Health?

08:03 Local-regional-national public health leadership

10:27 The importance of DPHs in the public health system

12:53 Developing public health leadership skills

14:34 Values driving leadership

17:11 Integrity in public health leadership

19:05 Leading during chaos

22:54 Communication skills in public health

28:13 Social-media and public health

30:42 Public health challenges ahead

34:30 System integration in public health

37:18 Public health system design

41:42 Advocating for better systems integration in public health

42:52 One career tip and end

Episode 3 of our special series in partnership with the Faculty of Public Health where we explore one key question - What is Public Health? It may seem like a simple question, but Public Health is no single thing. The aim of the series is to shine a light on the breadth of Public Health and the challenges ahead by talking to key figures in the field. This episode we sat down with Professor Dame Jenny Harries. Professor Harries is the Chief Executive of the U.K. Health Security Agency. Professor Harries has over 30 years' experience in public health and has played significant roles in the U.K. Government's response to a range of public health crises including the COVID-19 pandemic, H1N1 and Novichock. She has served as the Regional Director of Public Health for the South of England at Public Health England and later became the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England. In May 2021, she became the first chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency. Professor Harries has been recognized for her services to health, receiving a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2022. CHAPTERS (00:00) Teaser and introduction (01:54) What is Public Health? (03:10) What attracted Jenny to a career in Public Health? (07:30) Public Health challenges we are not talking enough about (10:58) Communication in Public Health (13:37) Being in the public eye (16:34) Novichok and thinking on your feet (21:09) Career tips for those working in Public Health

Episode 2 of our special series in partnership with the Faculty of Public Health where we explore one key question - What is Public Health? It may seem like a simple question, but Public Health is no single thing. The aim of the series is to shine a light on the breadth of Public Health and the challenges ahead by talking to key figures in the field. This episode we sat down with Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam. Sir Jonathan Van-Tam is a Professor of Health Protection at the University of Nottingham and the former Deputy Chief Medical Officer. Jonathan completed his medical training at the University of Nottingham, where he became a senior lecturer. He joined SmithKline Beecham in 2000 as an associate director. He has over two decades experience in health protection and infectious diseases through his previous roles as the head of pandemic influenza at the health protection agency, chairing the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control expert advisory group on h5n1 vaccines and chair of the UK government’s new and emerging respiratory virus threats advisory group. Professor Van Tam received an MBE in 1998 and was knighted in the 2022 New Years honours list. He was awarded the David Attenborough award by the Royal Society for outstanding public engagement with science. And was also awarded the Freedom of Boston award in 2022 by his local community. CHAPTERS (00:00) Teaser and Introduction (02:40) Inspiration to go into a public health (06:52) Jonathan's mentor in public health (08:53) What is Public Health? (10:50) Collecting public health lenses across sectors (18:28) Translating public health across sectors (20:25) Dealing with public attention (25:00) Communication and analogies in public health (33:42) Politics and public health (35:50) Public health challenges ahead (37:55) Jonathan's career regret (39:50) One career tips for those training in public health

We launch a special series in partnership with the Faculty of Public Health where we explore one key question - What is Public Health? It may seem like a simple question, but Public Health is no single thing. The aim of the series is to shine a light on the breadth of Public Health and the challenges ahead by talking to key figures in the field. This episode we sat down with Dame Jennifer Dixon, Chief Executive of The Health Foundation, an independent charity in the UK that works to improve health in the UK. Jennifer is a former paediatrician and a leading expert in health policy and research. She has been awarded a CBE and a DBE for her services to the NHS and public health. Before joining the Health Foundation in 2013, Dame Jennifer was director of policy at the Nuffield Trust, an independent health think tank. She also held senior policy positions at the Department of Health, the King’s Fund and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has published widely on health system performance, quality improvement, regulation and governance. She has held visiting professorships at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the London School of Economics, and Imperial College Business School. CHAPTERS (00:00) Teaser and Introduction (02:20) Day in the life of Jennifer Dixon (04:16) The Art of Public Health Policy (06:33) What is Public Health? (07:57) What attracted Jennifer to Public Health? (11:32) Reflecting on Public Health Training (15:54) Health Foundation Harkness Fellowships (20:19) What Public Health challenges are we not talking about enough (24:00) Major conditions work at the Health Foundation (29:28) Experience that changed Jennifer's career (32:00) Career tip for those training in Public Health

A very special live episode we recorded at the Faculty of Public Health conference in London in September 2023.

We welcomed a guest host - Fatai Ogunlayi, a consultant in public health and former chair of the FPH Specialty Registrar Committee.

In this episode we explored:

• How to navigate public health careers
• The transition from registrar to consultant
• Developing into a public health leader
• Dealing with imposter syndrome
• Networking skills

Dr. Amina Aitsi-Selmi

Amina’s first career was in Academic Public Health and she was a Consultant in International Public Health at the then Public Health Engand. Since 2016, Amina has worked independently as an Executive and Career Coach to doctors and global leaders. She holds a MRCP, MSc in Public Health from LSHTM, and a PhD that was supervised by Professor Sir Michael Marmot. Amina is also  an Honorary Lecturer at UCL teaching on the Social Determinants of Global Health and wrote an award winning book called The Success Trap: Why Good People Stay in Jobs They Don't Like and How to Break Free.

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Dr. Ahmed Razavi

Ahmed is a consultant in global health and the regional lead for South East Asia for the UK Health Security Agency on the International Health Regulations Strengthening project. Ahmed is a medical doctor by background and has previously worked across Africa, Europe, South East Asia and the Caribbean - working on global health issues ranging from mental health to infectious disease, with organisations such as the WHO, Chatham House, University of Cambridge, Public Health England, UK Faculty of Public Health, and Imperial College London

Dr. Naveed Syed

Naveed is a consultant in communicable disease control at the UKHSA with over 25 years experience in public health, medical education and health protection.  He has worked as a training programme director in the West Midlands and is CPD director for the Faculty of Public Health.

Naveed has worked as the first secretary for health at the British High commission in Islamabad, supporting the development of integrated disease surveillance and response systems. He is also an accredited healthcare mentor and honorary senior lecturer at Birmingham University.

This episode we sat down with Patrick Keating, an epidemiologist at MSF with over ten years experience in global health. He honed his skills across a number of experiences and roles including with the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, research roles at LSHTM and a range of NGOs.

We talked about the life of a field epidemiologist at MSF, his thoughts on the skills needed in emergency outbreak settings and his thoughts on global health careers.

If you enjoyed the episode please leave us a review and follow us on Twitter @TiPH_Podcast for news and updates on future episodes.

This episode we take a deep dive into a lesser known area of public health. Field Epidemiology. We are joined by Dr. Obaghe Edeghere, deputy director at the UK Health Security Agency and head of the UK Field service. He explains what field epidemiology is and why it's so important in the bigger picture of improving public health.

We are also joined by Dr. Louise Coole, the head of the UK Field Epidemiology Training Programme. She explains what the key skills of a field epidemiologist are and the core components of the FETP and it's role in the public health workforce.

If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review and follow us on Twitter @TiPH_Podcast for news and update on future episodes.

CHAPTERS

(00:00) Introduction

(01:50) Obaghe Edeghere - What is Field Epidemiology

(04:10) Leadership attributes for Field Epidemiology

(06:52) What is the UKHSA Field Service

(11:31) The global field epidemiology workforce in pandemic preparedness

(14:40) Reflection on Field Epidemiology

(15:13) Louise Coole - Director of UK FETP

(15:40) What is the UK Field Epidemiology Training Programme

(17:57) FETP networks and outbreak response

(20:35) FETP deployments overseas

(22:13) The role of FETP programmes in pandemic preparedness

(25:57) The attributes of an FETP fellow

(27:28) Where FETP fellows go after graduating

(29:01) One career tip for aspiring Field Epidemiologists

This episode we are joined by Professor Martin McKee CBE, current President of the British Medical Association and Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Martin is an active advocate for the health of the public and we cover wide ranging topics including Europe, upcoming industrial action of junior doctors in England, and personal and professional resilience. Biography of Martin McKee with the BMJ https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h421n Martin’s recent publications on the BMJ https://www.bmj.com/search/advanced/author1%3Amartin%2Bmckee%20limit_from%3A1840-01-01%20limit_to%3A2023-03-04%20numresults%3A10%20sort%3Arelevance-rank%20format_result%3Astandard The textbook ‘Mastering Public Health’ for which Martin wrote the foreword https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Mastering_Public_Health_A_postgraduate_g.html?id=e7AYPJTJhC8C&redir_esc=y