WORKFORCE: Diana Grice, director of public health for East Sussex, has been appointed vice president of the Association of the Directors of Public Health.
Dr Grice will work alongside the association’s new president Janet Atherton, who is DPH for Sefton.
ADPH press release (attached right)
16 April 2012
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