Health Service Journal
Alan Maryon-Davis

Alan Maryon-Davis is immediate past president of the UK Faculty of Public Health.

'If the reforms go wrong, the potential risk to public health huge'

9-Sep-2011
Andrew Lansley’s new vision for public health must overcome tough tests if it is to grow into a healthy being, says Alan Maryon-Davis.
Public health tremors could unleash a monster

3 February 2011
The double whammy of setting up a new national public health service (Public Health England) and returning responsibility for health improvement to local government is the most earth-shaking shift in public health since the abolition of medical officers of health in 1974.

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