John Middleton
President of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER)
Prof. John Middleton FFPH, FRCP is Honorary Professor of Public Heath at Wolverhampton University. He was President of the United Kingdom Faculty of Public Health, the standard setting body for public health professionals in the UK until June 2019. He is President of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) from June 2019- 2021. He was Director of Public Health for Sandwell in the West Midlands of England for 26 years; until he retired in 2014 he was the longest serving DPH in England. He lives in Coventry in the West Midlands. He has interests in environmental health, sustainable development and violence prevention. In another life he is a blues harmonica player with albums on spotify and apple music. www.drharp.co.uk
Recent relevant publications :
- Middleton J, Williams G (2018) England in Rechel B, Maresso A, Sagan A, Hernandez-Quevedo C, Williams G, Richardson E, Jakubowski E, Nolte E (eds.) Organization and financing of public health services in Europe: Country reports World Health Organization, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies: Copenhagen, Denmark, 5-22. http://www.euro.who.int/en/about-us/partners/observatory/news/news/2018/05/how-to-strengthen-public-health-services-lessons-from-9-european-countries
- Rechl B, Maresso A, Sagan A, et al eds. Middleton J Chapter 1 England case reports. The role of public health organisations in addressing public health problems in Europe. The case of obesity, alcohol and antimicrobial resistance. Country reports. Online appendix. London: European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2018. http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/387534/online-appendix-hps-51-eng.pdf?ua=1
- Rae M, Middleton J. Health, wellbeing, and care should be top of everyone’s political agenda. BMJ 2019; 367: l6503. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l6503.
