Rachel Flowers 
Rachel is an experienced, registered senior public health specialist with a record as a system leader over three decades. Starting her professional career as environmental health officer in local government in the 1980s, after working in enforcement and then community development and wider public health roles she obtained registration as a public health specialist through a retrospective portfolio in 2007. Throughout her career, she has demonstrated strong and visible leadership around wider system work around “wicked problems” health protection, health improvement and reducing health inequalities and health services and workforce development. Working in a range of paid roles in local government, NHS, GLA, central government, arm’s length bodies (PHE) and most recently academia she also has experience in voluntary or elected roles including being a Board member of three UK wide organisations. She has board experience at local, regional, and national level as an Executive and Non-Executive Director. She has also actively been involved in policy making including informing and writing regulations around smoke freedom and health protection and advocacy work for a range of national bodies including the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, the Association of Directors of Public Health, and the Faculty of Public Health.
In May 2024, after over 8 years as a Director of Public Health for Croydon, she stepped down to focus on her DProf- around leadership roles for Directors of Public Health (she is in her third year) and to develop a new phase in her career. In December, have previously been a Visiting Fellow, she started a part time senior lecturer role at London South Bank University developing public health professional competencies.
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