Public Health England Director Biographies. Dr John Harrison – Interim Director
for the Centre for Radiation, Chemical and. Environmental Hazards.
Public Health England Director Biographies Dr John Harrison – Interim Director for the Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards John Harrison is currently Deputy Director for Research at the Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards (CRCE) of the Health Protection Agency. He has responsibility for departments that undertake research and provide advice on chemical toxicology, air pollution and climate change, and radiation dosimetry and effects. He worked for the National Radiological Protection Board from 1974 until it became part of CRCE in 2005. His research background is in the biokinetics, dosimetry and effects of radioelements, and he has published extensively in this area. John’s international work includes support of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). He is currently coordinating an EC funded project of collaborative epidemiological research on health effects in populations exposed to radiation as a result of the operation of plutonium production plants in Russia and the UK. He is HPA representative on the board of a multidisciplinary European association set up to integrate European research on radiation risks.
Dr Ann Hoskins – Director for Children and Young People’s Health and Well-being Ann Hoskins is currently Interim Regional Director of Public Health for NHS North West. Before then she was Director of Children, Young People and Maternity, and Deputy Director of Public Health for NHS North West. Ann was previously Director of Public Health for Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health Authority, Manchester and Wirral Health Authorities. She has extensive experience of working in developing countries in maternal and child primary health care. She has a keen interest in both developing and ensuring implementation of evidence-based practice and tackling health inequalities. Ann is a trustee of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and a member of the Public Health Intervention Advisory Committee and the QOF Indicator Advisory Committee of NICE.
