Graham Jukes
CIEH Chief Executive
Graham has over 35 years’ experience in the environmental health sector. In 1990 he was made a Fellow of the CIEH for his services to environmental health, and in 2004 he was made a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health in recognition of his distinguished service in the practice of public health.
In 2002, he was appointed Chief Executive. In this role he has restructured the organisation’s management and its policymaking procedures, expanded its trading activities and spearheaded necessary changes to the curriculum for environmental health degree programmes. He established CIEH offices in Wales and Northern Ireland following devolution.
Under his leadership the CIEH has increased its influence in the development of public health policy both in the UK and abroad. The CIEH played a pivotal role in the successful passage of legislation to prohibit smoking in all enclosed workplaces and public places, to tighten controls on the use of sunbeds and improve standards for the private-rented sector.
Most recently he has worked with CIEH Trustees, the Policy Development Board and a range of stakeholders to highlight the public health consequences of climate change. As a result the CIEH has produced guidance documents, organised a major conference and joined forces with high profile campaigning organisations such as Friends of the Earth.
Graham has been appointed to several major government advisory bodies such as the Sustainable Development Task Force. He is a World Health Organization Specialist Adviser on environmental health and a member of the UK National Public Health Leadership Advisory Board. He is Company Secretary to the International Federation of Environmental Health (IFEH), Executive Director of Chadwick House Group Limited, a Trustee for the Association of London Environmental Health Managers. Graham is a Trustee of his local primary school.
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Julie Barratt
Director of CIEH Wales
Julie’s role is to build contacts with the National Assembly for Wales, local authorities and non-governmental organisations, to represent and promote CIEH policies in a Welsh context, and to raise the profile of the profession. A high profile public health campaigner, she played an important role in persuading the Assembly government to introduce smokefreedom legislation. In addition to smokefreedom, she has been instrumental in lobbying for greater controls on sunbed use, raising the profile of illegal meat and highlighting the public health threats associated with obesity and poor diet.
Julie qualified as an Environmental Health Officer in 1981 and practised in Belfast, Basildon and Torfaen as a food hygiene, health and safety and health education specialist. In 1989 she embarked on a London University External Degree, going on to qualify as a barrister in 1993. She worked as a lawyer specialising in environmental health, town and country planning and health & safety law before joining the CIEH in 2002. Julie writes a monthly column for Environmental Health Practitioner (EHP).
Julie was a member of the Welsh Consumer Council from June 2006 to September 2008. In 2009 she was awarded an honorary fellowship of the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.
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Gary McFarlane
Director of CIEH Northern Ireland
Gary is responsible for representation and development of CIEH in Northern Ireland. This involves all aspects of the work that is carried out within the main offices of the organisation in London. In terms of policy development this means developing specific policy positions for NI and promoting and representing these within the region. It also includes ensuring relevant and appropriate education and professional development opportunities and processes within NI. Perhaps most importantly it involves advocating for and promoting the value of an environmental health approach to and contribution towards addressing the key public and environmental health challenges faced by the region and indeed beyond.
Gary works closely with the NI Assembly and its representatives; key government departments and agencies; other non-governmental organisations; the CIEH NI Regional Management Board; senior environmental health colleagues; universities and others within NI.
Gary holds both a BSc and an MBA from the University of Ulster. He has worked within several local authorities in NI before being appointed to his current post. He is currently a Co Chair of the Public Health Alliance for the Island of Ireland and a member of the board of Sustainable Northern Ireland. He has written and/or contributed to a number of key papers and reports and delivered key presentations regionally, nationally and internationally. Gary was nominated and subsequently elected as a Fellow of CIEH in 2008.
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Frank Post
Executive Director of Commercial Services
Frank is responsible for driving and supporting growth in the CIEH’s business, which helps to support the charitable objectives of the CIEH.
Before joining the CIEH, Frank worked at senior director level in marketing and sales at the BSI* and the Chubb Security Group. He has strong expertise in improving organisation performance and change through strategic marketing and key account development.
His skills set include product diversification, repositioning brands, developing overseas markets and driving increased customer satisfaction.
Frank is a graduate of Warwick University Business School.
*British Standards Institution
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Catherine Horsfield
Executive Director of Stakeholder Engagement
Catherine is responsible for providing strategic direction and support to the teams that provide services across the organisation, namely Information Technology and Systems, Communications, Human Resources and Facilities at the CIEH.
Catherine joined the organisation in 2004 as Head of the Events Division. In this role she significantly developed the organisation’s events portfolio including securing contracts to deliver national training programmes on the implementation of smokefree legislation, the Housing Health and Safety Rating System and the enforcement of HACCP requirements.
In 2007 she was given responsibility for redeveloping the ground floor area of the CIEH into a sustainable events and conferences facility. The project took over eight months to develop and was launched to the public in May 2008 as 15Hatfields conferences and events. The venue has proved a remarkable success, experiencing a sustained growth in customers attracted by its green credentials, excellent customer service and central London location.
Before she joined the CIEH, Catherine worked for public sector events businesses for ten years. She specialised in project management, team leadership and client relationship management as well as the design and delivery of training and conference programmes.
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Marianne Phillips
Head of the Awarding Body
Marianne joined the CIEH in 2003 and has been responsible for spearheading the organisation’s drive to diversify its portfolio of products beyond its traditional food safety and health and safety areas.
She and her team have undertaken an enormous amount of work in updating and redeveloping most of the CIEH’s public health qualifications in order to address needs of industry and the government’s agenda for vocational qualifications. Her role also includes managing the company’s Events and Publishing Divisions.
Marianne is the publisher of the CIEH’s flagship publications Environmental Health News and Trainers’ Exchange.
She started her career as a registered nurse before moving into health service management. Her work in developing a multidisciplinary lifelong learning programme in the NHS led on to an appointment with a major publisher to set up an innovative and widely influential nurse education programme. Since then she has managed a variety of highly successful educational projects.
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Des Hancox
Head of Customer Services and Sales
Des is responsible for the delivery of sales, customer service and marketing across all the business streams for the CIEH’s business, Chadwick House Group Limited.
Des joined the organisation in 2005 as the Training Division’s Customer Support Manager. During this time he oversaw a radical overhaul of the CIEH’s qualification products and successfully implemented a new sales function. He was appointed to his present role at the start of 2010.
Before the CIEH, Des held a variety of sales and customer service positions in organisations including Racal Plc, Abbey National plc, General Electric Inc and Total Gas & Power Ltd. He is also a graduate of Kingston University Business School.
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David Kidney
Head of Policy
David’s first career was in law, nearly 20 years in private practice as a solicitor and partner in a High Street firm. His legal work included housing law, negligence litigation and personal injury claims.
David was elected to Parliament in 1997 and was an MP for 13 years, becoming a Minister in the Department of Energy and Climate Change in 2009. His achievements as an MP include his Private Member’s Bills in respect of air travel-related DVT, empty homes, food in schools and private sewers. His responsibilities as a Minister included consumer protection, fuel poverty, green skills and energy industry resilience.
David was not re-elected at the 2010 General Election and he started work for the CIEH in July of that year. As Head of Policy he leads for the CIEH in respect of policy across a wide range of environmental health subjects including air quality, business regulation, climate change; environmental protection; food safety; housing conditions; pest control, public health, sustainable development and workplace safety, health and wellbeing. He also line manages the Policy team including the Research Projects Officer and the Information and Communications Manager.
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Tony Lewis
Head of Education and Professional Standards
Trisha Hynes
Head of Marketing and Communications
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