ADPH President

Jeanelle de Gruchy, DPH Tameside

Principal responsibility: To Chair the ADPH Board of Directors; to lead the Association through the Board, Council and staff; to maintain a high profile and lead on advocacy.

Accountability: to the members through the Board and Council.

Duties:

• chair the Board and ensure its effectiveness and adherence to the Objects;
• work with the Board, Council and staff to create a vision for the Association and its work;
• maintain high profile advocacy for priority public health issues on behalf of the Association;
• line manage the Chief Executive including appraisal and performance management and oversee their development;
• chair the Board HR sub-committee ensuring adherence to best HR practice;
• liaise with the Chief Executive to ensure the Association adheres to its Objects and to Public Health principles at all times.

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ADPH Vice-President

Jim McManus,           DPH Hertfordshire

Principal responsibility: To deputise for the President; be Vice Chair of the ADPH Board and Chair of Council; to provide governance for the Association’s policy programme.

Accountability: to the members through the President, Board and Council.

Duties:

• deputise for the President as required;
• chair the Council, take account of its views and ensure its engagement;
• actively participate as Vice Chair and member of the ADPH Board;
• liaise with the Head of Policy to provide assurance for the Board on the programme of policy work, leading on specific high-profile areas of policy;
• liaise with the Head of Policy to ensure all policy work adheres to the Association’s quality and standards.

ADPH Treasurer

Eugene Milne,     DPH Newcastle

Principal responsibility: To have oversight of the budget and provide governance for the Chief Executive on financial matters.

Accountability: to the members through the President, Board and Council.

Duties:

• lead the Board in understanding financial issues and taking strategic financial decisions on funding and reserves;
• ensure regular and appropriate exceptional reporting on financial matters to the Board;
• maintain an overview of the Association’s financial affairs and ensure financial viability;
• liaise with the Chief Executive to ensure financial probity and governance;
• be a member of the Board HR sub-committee;
• support the Chief Executive in making major financial commitments and securing both long and short term funding.

Membership Secretary

Rupert Suckling, DPH Doncaster

Principal responsibility: To ensure that members receive the services that they have been promised and that they obtain value for money.

Accountability: to the members through the President, Board and Council.

Duties: 

• liaise with the Chief Executive to ensure appropriate membership records are held and that data protection and confidentiality is assured;
• maintain an overview of members and assure that there is fairness and equity in the Association’s dealings with members;
• have oversight to ensure regular, relevant and useful communications are received by all members both for disseminating information and collecting feedback and opinions;
• support the Chief Executive in meeting the members’ expectations and needs where practicable and desirable.

ADPH Honorary Secretary (Constitutional Governance)

Tim Allison,     DPH East Riding of Yorkshire

Principal responsibility: To assure that an appropriate constitutional framework is in place for the Association and that it is adhered to.

Accountability: to the members through the President and Council.

Duties:

• liaise with Chief Executive to ensure adherence to statutory regulation and Company and Charity law
• liaise with the Chief Executive to ensure appropriate governance systems are in place;
• maintain an overview of governance arrangements to ensure consistency and practicability;
• have oversight to ensure adherence to the governance systems by Board, staff and Council;
• be a member of the Board HR sub-committee;
• support the Chief Executive and President in dealing with governance issues that cannot easily be addressed by the governance framework.

ADPH Honorary Secretary (Infrastructure)

Helen Atkinson, DPH Surrey

Principal responsibility: To assure that appropriate arrangements are in place to support management of the organisation including HR policies, hosting and risk management, and that they are adhered to.

Accountability: to the members through the President and Council

Duties:

• liaise with the Chief Executive to ensure an appropriate risk assurance framework is in place and current;
• liaise with the President, Chief Executive and hosting organisation to ensure hosting is appropriate, sensitive and fit for purpose;
• be a member of the HR sub-committee;
• work with the hosting organisation over HR and employment issues particularly with reference to grievance and disciplinary matters;
• support the Chief Executive and President in dealing with management issues that cannot appropriately be addressed by staff.

ADPH Council members

Principal responsibilities: As a member of the ADPH Council, to support ADPH activity in relation to policy, networks and DPH development; to ensure constituency views are represented; and to foster good two-way communication between ADPH UK and local constituencies / ADPH Networks.

Accountability: to the members through the President and other members of the Council.

Duties:

• actively participate in ADPH Council meetings and undertake specific policy work;
• seek engagement, input and feedback for ADPH policy and activities from their constituency and/or ADPH Network;
• provide system leadership for the improvement of public health practice within their constituency in accordance with national guidance and support;
• provide updates and reports to the ADPH Sector-led Improvement Programme Board on behalf of their Network / constituency as required;
• attend ADPH Council workshops and the AGM to support the development of ADPH work;
• represent ADPH nationally where appropriate;
• ensure good two-way communication between the ADPH and their constituency / ADPH Network, in accordance with the principle that meetings of the ADPH (UK) Council will receive regular updates on network activity / local issues from Constituency Representatives; and similarly Constituency Representatives should provide regular updates on ADPH (UK) activity to their networks.

Current Representatives

• East of England –  Mike Gogarty, Louise Smith
• East Midlands – Mike Sandys, Lucy Wightman
• London – Julie Billett, Tamara Djuretic
• North East – Amanda Healy, Alice Wiseman
• North West (Cheshire and Merseyside) – Eileen O’Meara
• North West (Cumbria and Lancashire) – Sakthi Karunanithi
• North West (Greater Manchester) – Lesley Jones
• South East – Andrew Scott-Clark, Tessa Lindfield
• South West – Virginia Pearson, Bruce Laurence
• West Midlands – Deborah Harkins, Ruth Tennant
• Yorkshire & the Humber – Julia Weldon, Stephen Pintus
• Northern Ireland – Carolyn Harper, Lorraine Doherty
• Scotland – Louise Wilson
• Associate Membership – Allison Duggal, Piers Simey