NHS Highland Director of Public Health board post filled
NHS Highland has named its new Director of Public Health.
Jennifer Davies will take over the role from Dr Tim Allison when he retires from the post in June.
She joins the health board with 25 years’ experience of working in public health in Wales and the south-east of England.
“I am honoured and delighted to be offered the role of Director of Public Health for NHS Highland,” Ms Davies said. “I was inspired to move up to the north of Scotland because of the board’s commitment and vision for wanting to make a real difference and address health inequalities.
“This has been evident since I arrived in post as NHS Highland’s Deputy Director of Public Health in February, and I am looking forward to embracing the challenges ahead and collaborating with partners and our communities to play my part in making that vision a reality.”
Prior to joining NHS Highland, she was the Acting Executive Director of Public Health at Swansea Bay Health Board in south Wales, where she also held the role of Deputy Director of Public Health since 2022.
She has also worked for Public Health Wales, and was Head of Public Health and Behavioural Science at Bupa.
She spent a significant amount of her career working in Southampton and the south-east of England, which included a variety of different senior public health specialist roles in the NHS, local authorities and academic sector.
