Rachel Wells has led the School of Public Health – London since Autumn 2018, following several years as a TPD and ES. With a strong passion for education, she has focused on advancing the School, fostering collaboration, and introducing innovative approaches in London. Her commitment to delivering high-quality registrar training while maximizing opportunities for London registrars has been a top priority. She actively promotes registrar involvement in decision-making, engagement, and constructive challenges.

Additionally, Rachel has been a longstanding advocate for developing the wider public health workforce, assembling a dedicated team to support this mission. Alongside her leadership at the School, Rachel serves as a Consultant in Public Health in Barnet, North London, overseeing the Neighbourhoods, Communities, and Mental Health team. Her work spans suicide prevention, community development, PCN neighbourhood public health, and asylum seeker health. Over her 30-year career, she has held diverse roles across local, regional, and national government and the NHS. Despite her extensive experience, she remains deeply enthusiastic about the evolving opportunities within public health. Rachel is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (FFPH), registered with UKPHR as a Generalist Specialist, and contributes to the FPH Poverty Special Interest Group (SIG).

Jane is a UKPHR-registered Public Health Specialist with over 25 years’ Department of Health, NHS, and local government experience whose career has evolved from nursing through specialist health promotion roles to being the Director of Public Health for both Swindon PCT and Newham Borough Council and a Consultant in Public Health in the fields of Health & Justice, violence reduction, and as part of the London Mayor’s COVID response and recovery team. She was until recently a Consultant in Public Health in London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

As a public health specialist, Jane has led public health programmes and co-author of papers in specialist fields such as health inequality, violence reduction, and mental health and health and social care in prisons. Jane is currently also an independent Monitoring Board (IMB) member of two prisons – a therapeutic prison and an open prison.

Jane is one of the Training Programme Director in the School of Public Health (London) where she very much enjoys working with a wide range of SpRs at different stages of training and with different experiences past and present; as well as working with Educational Supervisors to support high quality placements and the school to provide a high quality training experience. Jane leads on Supported Return to Training (SRTT) and Trainees in Difficulty for the School of Public Health. She is also the link TPD for local authorities in North East London, the GLA, NICE, OHOD-UKSHA Global, FCDO, and NHS England. Jane also leads on the ARCP process for the School.

Julie George took up the role of TPD in July 2020, at the same time she became Deputy Director of Public Health at Barnet. She worked as an educational supervisor for many years as part of her Consultant role at Surrey County Council. Since 2010, Julie has been associated with the Institute of Health Informatics at UCL, completing her NIHR Doctoral Fellowship in 2013 and subsequently securing an NIHR Postdoctoral Clinical Fellowship in 2017. Since October 2022, Julie has stepped back from full-time service Public Health to concentrate on her TPD role and academic research.

Julie is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (FFPH) and registered with the UKPHR as Generalist Specialist. Julie is the academic TPD for the School of Public Health. She also has responsibility for a cohort of about 40 registrars, and Educational Supervisor development. She is also the link TPD for all UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) placements, the academic institutions, thinktanks and voluntary agencies, and training locations in North West and North Central London.

Livia joined the public health community 25 years ago. Since qualifying as a public health specialist in 2005, she undertook a number of public health consultant and director positions across London and the South East of England. Public health training and educational has always been Livia’s passion and she has supervised public health and GP registrars for many many years. Livia trained with GP educators and completed her PG Certificate for Teaching in Primary Care in 2013. Livia is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (FFPH) and registered with the UKPHR as Generalist Specialist.

Livia joined the London Public Health Training Programme as TPD in 2022. She enjoys working as part of a team alongside the Postgraduate Dean, the Head of School and her TPD colleagues. Livia views having the opportunity to support, enable and empower 50 registrars each year in order to discover their full potential and successfully navigate their journey of learning is the best role she could wish for. Livia leads on KA10 panels for the School. She is also the link TPD for local authorities in South London, the Department of Health and Social Care including OHID and the CMO’s office.