Issues surrounding public health, and the way we work with children's and public health directors have shot up the agenda in recent years. Some important public health battles have been engaged and won - not least the triumph of ending smoking in public places, and the steady reduction in the number of smokers, and smoking related illnesses, that have been recorded. The National Lead for public health is at the forefront of developing new ways of working partnership with colleagues from other local government departments and elsewhere to take key public health areas of concern forward.

Glyn Jones (Bracknell) is ADASS's National Lead at present and is available at 01344 351458 or via e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Key Documents

The ADASS response to the Public Health White Paper, Public Health Outcome Framework, and the Public Health Funding and Commissioning Routes consultations 2011 can be found on the ADASS Website under Publications, Consultations, Responses 2011.

Title Co-production for health: a new model for health and wellbeing in a radically new world
Date: December 2011
Author/Network: Solutions for Public Health (SPH), Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH), Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH), NHA Alliance, Associatio of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)

Title:Parliamentary Health Committee Inquiry into Health inequalities
Date: March 2008
Author/Network: Sandie Keene, ADASS Public Health National Lead