Andrew Jones, Chair

Andrew is currently employed by Public Health Wales as Deputy Director of Public Health Services / Director of Integrated Health Protection where his remit includes revalidation and honorary senior lecturer at Bangor University. Andrew’s career began as an Environmental Health Officer where he specialised in food safety, communicable disease and environmental hazard control. Later in 2003 he was appointed as the first non-medical consultant in public health in the UK leading environmental public health. He entered senior management level in 2007 following appointment by the National Public Health Service for Wales as the Regional Director of Public Health for North Wales and National Strategic Director for Health Improvement. Soon after in 2010, Andrew reached board level with his role as Executive Director of Public Health for the largest integrated Health Board in Wales during a time where he was also the lead Executive for Health Services in relation to the establishment of the largest prison in the UK. Maintaining his role as an ambassador for environmental health, Andrew is also a former Trustee of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.