[Withdrawn] Directors of public health in England
Updated 7 September 2021
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There are 135 director of public health posts across 153 local authorities (this includes instances where local authorities have entered into shared arrangements to optimise the public health service they can offer):
- 120 director of public health posts have substantive appointments
- all posts are covered by either substantive, or interim or acting appointments
East Midlands
Derby UA – Robin Dewis
Derbyshire – Dean Wallace
Leicester UA – Ivan Browne
Leicestershire – Mike Sandys
Lincolnshire – Derek Ward
Northamptonshire North – Lucy Wightman
Northamptonshire West – Lucy Wightman
Nottingham UA – Lucy Hubber
Nottinghamshire – Jonathan Gribbin
Rutland UA – Mike Sandys
East of England
Bedford Borough – Vicky Head (acting/interim)
Cambridgeshire – Jyotri Atri
Central Bedfordshire UA – Vicky Head (acting/interim)
Essex – Mike Gogarty
Hertfordshire – Jim McManus
Luton UA – Sally Cartwright (acting/interim)
Milton Keynes UA – Vicky Head (acting/interim)
Norfolk (covers Great Yarmouth) – Louise Smith
Peterborough UA – Jyotri Atri
Southend on Sea UA – Krishna Ramkhelawon
Suffolk (covers Waveney) – Stuart Keeble
Thurrock UA – Jo Broadbent (acting/interim)
London
Barking and Dagenham – Matthew Cole
Barnet – Tamara Djuretic
Bexley – Anjan Ghosh
Brent – Melanie Smith
Bromley – Nada Lemic
Camden – Julie Billett
City – Sandra Husbands
Croydon – Rachel Flowers
Ealing – Anna Bryden
Enfield – Dudu Sher-Arami (acting/interim)
Greenwich – Steve Whiteman
Hackney – Sandra Husbands
Hammersmith and Fulham – Nicola Lang (acting/interim)
Haringey – Will Maimaris (acting/interim)
Harrow – Carole Furlong
Havering – Mark Ansell
Hillingdon – Sharon Daye (acting/interim)
Hounslow – Kelly O’Neill
Islington – Julie Billett
Kensington and Chelsea – Anna Rayleigh
Kingston upon Thames – Iona Lidington
Lambeth – Ruth Hutt
Lewisham – Catherine Mbema
Merton – Dagmar Zeuner
Newham – Jason Stelitz
Redbridge – Gladys Xavier (acting/interim)
Richmond upon Thames – Shannon Katiyo
Southwark – Sangeeta Leahy
Sutton – Imran Choudhury
Tower Hamlets – Somen Banerjee
Waltham Forest – Joe McDonnell
Wandsworth – Shannon Katiyo
Westminster – Anna Rayleigh
North East
County Durham UA – Amanda Healy
Darlington UA – Penny Spring
Gateshead Council – Alice Wiseman
Hartlepool – Craig Blundred
Middlesbrough UA – Mark Adams
Newcastle upon Tyne – Eugene Milne
North Tyneside – Wendy Burke
Northumberland – Liz Morgan
Redcar and Cleveland – Mark Adams
South Tyneside – Tom Hall
Stockton on Tees UA – Sarah Bowman-Abouna
Sunderland – Gerry Taylor
North West
Blackburn with Darwen – Dominic Harrison
Blackpool – Arif Rajpura
Bolton – Helen Lowey
Bury – Lesley Jones
Cheshire East UA – Matt Tyrer
Cheshire West and Chester UA – I an Ashworth
Cumbria – Colin Cox
Halton UA – Ifeoma Onyia (acting/interim)
Knowsley – Sarah McNulty
Lancashire – Sakthi Karunanithi
Liverpool – Matthew Ashton
Manchester – David Regan
Oldham – Katrina Stephens
Rochdale – Kuima Thompson (acting/interim)
Salford – Muna Abdul Aziz
Sefton – Margaret Jones
St Helens – Ruth du Plessis
Stockport – Jennifer Connolly
Tameside – Jeanelle De Gruchy
Trafford – Eleanor Roaf
Warrington UA – Thara Raj
Wigan – Kate Ardern
Wirral – Julie Webster
South East
East Berkshire – Stuart Lines
West Berkshire UA – Meradin Peachey (acting/interim)
Bracknell Forest – Stuart Lines
Brighton UA – Alistair Hill
Buckinghamshire County Council – Jane O’Grady
East Sussex – Darrell Gale
Hampshire – Simon Bryant
Isle of Wight UA – Simon Bryant
Kent – Alison Duggal (acting/interim)
Medway UA – James Williams
Oxfordshire – Ansaf Azhar
Portsmouth UA – Helen Atkinson
Reading UA – Meradin Peachey (acting/interim)
Slough UA – Stuart Lines
Southampton UA – Debbie Chase
Surrey – Ruth Hutchinson
West Sussex – Alison Challenger
Windsor and Maidenhead UA – Stuart Lines
Wokingham UA – Meradin Peachey (acting/interim)
South West
Bath and North East Somerset (Bathnes) – Rebecca Reynolds
Bournemouth – Sam Crowe
City of Bristol – Christina Gray
Bournemouth – Sam Crowe
Cornwall UA – Rachel Wrigglesworth
Devon County Council – Steve Brown
Dorset – Sam Crowe
Gloucestershire – Sarah Scott
Isle of Scilly UA – Rachel Wrigglesworth
North Somerset UA – Matt Lenny
Plymouth UA – Ruth Harrell
Poole UA – Sam Crowe
Somerset – Trudi Grant
South Gloucestershire UA – Sara Blackmore
Swindon UA – Steve Maddern
Torbay UA – Lincoln Sargent
Wiltshire UA – Kate Blackburn
West Midlands
Birmingham – Justin Varney
Coventry – Liz Gaulton
Dudley – Karen Wright
Herefordshire – Rebecca Howell-Jones (acting/interim)
Sandwell – Lisa McNally
Shropshire UA – Rachel Robinson
Solihull – Ruth Tennant
Staffordshire – Richard Harling
Stoke on Trent UA – Paul Edmonson-Jones
Telford and Wrekin UA – Liz Noakes
Walsall – Stephen Gunther
Warwickshire – Shade Agboola
Wolverhampton – John Denley
Worcestershire – Kath Cobain
Yorkshire and Humber
Barnsley – Julia Burrows
Bradford – Sarah Muckle
Calderdale – Deb Harkins
Doncaster – Rupert Suckling
East Riding of Yorkshire UA – Andrew Kingdom
Hull City Council – Julia Weldon
Kirklees – Rachel Spencer-Henshall
Leeds – Victoria Eaton
North East Lincolnshire UA – Geoff Barnes (acting/interim)
North Lincolnshire UA – Tessa Lindfield
North Yorkshire – Louise Wallace (acting/interim)
Rotherham – Ben Anderson
Sheffield – Greg Fell
Wakefield – Anna Hartley
York UA – Sharon Stoltz