Andrew is currently employed by Public Health Wales (PHW) as ‘Consultant Adviser for Pandemic and International Health’. He also continues to provide professional appraisal and revalidation support to PHW in relation to UKPHR specialist registrants.
Following a successful and varied career across all domains of public health practice and leadership, Andrew has recently retired from his role as Deputy National Director of Health Protection and Screening Services in PHW, where he was also professional lead within the Office of the Medical Director for UKPHR specialist and practitioner registrants across Wales.
Andrew’s career began as an Environmental Health Officer where he specialised in food safety, communicable disease and environmental hazard control, becoming an adviser on public health to the Welsh Local Government Association. In 2002, Andrew was awarded Honorary membership of the Faculty of Public Health (FPH) for his contribution to public health. In 2003, Andrew became the first ‘generalist specialist’ on the UKPHR register (via the portfolio route) and was appointed by the National Public Health Service for Wales (NPHS) as the first consultant in public health in the UK, to come from a background other than medicine. In 2007, Andrew was appointed as the Regional Director of Public Health for North Wales and National Strategic Director for Health Improvement, NPHS. Following NHS Wales reorganisation in 2009, Andrew was appointed as Executive Director of Public Health for the largest integrated University Health Board in Wales, before moving back to the national organisation, Public Health Wales in 2016 as Director of Health Protection and Microbiology.
Andrew remains a Fellow of the FPH and until his recent retirement was also a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.
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