National Director Health and Wellbeing

Jim joined Public Health Wales in 2023 and has oversight of programmes across Wider Determinants, partnership working, Primary Care, Health Improvement, Dental Public Health, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Diabetes and Healthcare Public Health.

Jim is a Chartered Psychologist, Chartered Scientist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society in addition to being a registered Public Health specialist and Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health.  He held a Health Foundation Generation Q Fellowship and undertook a postgraduate leadership qualification at Ashridge Hult Business School.

Before joining Public Health Wales Jim was Executive Director of Public Health for Hertfordshire and President of the UK Association of Directors of Public Health and before that was Joint Director of Public Health for Birmingham. He has worked on primary care, cardiac and stroke care, public mental health, drugs and alcohol, HIV and sexual health. He was national lead for ADPH on drugs and alcohol, mental health and suicide for over five years and has served as Deputy Chair of the National Institute of Health Research Public Health Programme Advisory Board.

Jim holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Hertfordshire and a Visiting Senior Lectureship in the Division of Population Health Sciences at the University of Bristol.