Edward is a very experienced public health and population health management leader. He has experience of working across the system including years as a joint director of public health and public protection in local government, public health consultant in an acute trust and a mental health trust as well as working across local and regional health systems in the north east of England. He is passionate about population health management, tackling inequalities and prevention. He holds higher specialist qualifications in leadership, epidemiology, public health and lifestyle medicine. He also has academic interests and works with a number of universities in the UK and internationally on population health reasearch.