Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health and Innovation
Organisations:
Department of Health and Social Care
Responsibilities
Responsibilities for the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health and Innovation include:
- health protection, including: emergency preparedness, immunisation and infectious diseases
- health Improvement, including: tobacco, alcohol, obesity, physical activity, drugs, addiction to medicines
- diabetes
- children’s health and school nursing
- sexual health
- abortion
- mental health services
- homelessness
- prison health services
- data and technology
- cyber security
- research and development
- fertility and embryology
- life sciences innovation
- genomics
- antimicrobial resistance
- global health security
Ministerial lead for:
- Public Health England
- NHS Digital
- Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
Previous holders of this role
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Baroness Blackwood
2016 to 2017