Consultant in Global Public Health

Overview

In this role you will provide expert public health guidance on violence prevention and lead the delivery of project workstreams within the PAVISE initiative. You will help build evidence-based population health approaches and contribute to policy and surveillance tools for UK Overseas Territories. You will work with cross-sector partners to strengthen health systems, build public health capacity, and evaluate impact. This is a mission-driven opportunity to shape violence prevention at scale across territories, with a focus on collaboration, surveillance, and evidence use.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working
• flexible working
• opportunity to impact public health at a multinational scale

Responsibilities

• Provide expert public health advice on violence prevention to UKOT governments
• Lead delivery of technical outputs across project workstreams
• Co-design and implement evidence-based public health approaches to preventing violence
• Develop policy frameworks, guidance, standards and implementation tools
• Support development and implementation of violence surveillance systems and epidemiological profiles
• Engage strategically with UKOTs to promote public health approaches
• Coordinate multi-agency workshops and partnership events
• Support sustainable public health capabilities within health systems and Ministries of Health
• Mentor and supervise project staff and trainees
• Contribute to design and implementation of project evaluation frameworks and monitoring systems

Key requirements

• GMC full and specialist register with license to practice or UKPHR eligible within 6 months
• Equivalent training/experience if not in public health medicine
• Significant strategic experience in public health approaches to violence prevention
• Staff management and training experience
• Experience with inter-agency collaboration and violence prevention initiatives
• Proven ability to apply epidemiology and statistics to public health practice
• Ability to lead strategic development across organisational and territorial boundaries
• Excellent oral and written communication including presentations and media handling
• Budget management and project management skills
• Understanding of NHS and local government cultures and policies

• strong leadership and strategic thinking
• excellent communication and influencing skills
• ability to build relationships across sectors
• epidemiology and statistics
• surveillance systems development
• public health policy design and implementation

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