Multidisciplinary Public Health

Jenny Wright contributed to UK multidisciplinary public health from 2000 as a registered specialist, developing national competency and assessment frameworks and promoting public health careers. She was Chair of the FPHM Honorary Members Committee then Specialist Development Committee 1999-2004 Fiona Sim is the current chair Royal Society for Public Health and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; contributed nationally to building public health capacity as a senior public health physician within service, research and DH. She was a founding member of the Tripartite Group, representing RIPH. Fiona stood down from the group on taking up a role at DH in 2002. Katie Wright is a Senior Public Health Officer in local government, She has a history doctorate and researched the multidisciplinary public health training scheme for her masters.

• Introduction and methods; Developing the specialty of public health; The multidisciplinary public health movement of the 1990s; Changes for specialists I: Setting up a multidisciplinary public health senior appointments process; Changes for specialists II: The new regulatory system for specialists; Changes for specialists III: The establishment of multidisciplinary higher specialist training in public health; The focus on practitioners and the wider workforce; Where we are now? The new public health system in England from April 2013; Experience across the other UK countries; Conclusion.

"Recent developments in public health are poorly understood by the public. Multidisciplinary public health provides a readable history, based on the authors' own involvement, of one key change in modern public health - the incorporation of non-medical people into the mainstream public health workforce." Virginia Berridge, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine "Public health in England has moved into uncharted territory. This timely and important history of the changing workforce is an indispensable guide to the challenges and unfinished business ahead" David J Hunter, Durham University "A key text, entertainingly and expertly written, for anyone who wants to be better informed about public health and the contemporary development of the workforce that delivers it. This book provides a welcome addition to the literature on public health in England" Lord Hunt of King's Heath