Pam works as the Assistant Director for Transport at Portsmouth City Council. Pam was the first Public Health Practitioner to be registered with the UKPHR from a transport background. Pam actively develops her work through a public health lens in the development and implementation of transport and travel policy for the City. Pam and her team have successfully worked on a number of initiatives ranging from cycle schemes to more recently in successfully gaining £450,000 to contribute to the City’s improving air quality priority through delivering a series of sustainable travel initiatives and awareness-raising campaigns.
Pam has, as a result of her registration, recognised the role and contribution transport can make to public health and has supported a number of her team to engage in practitioner development and registration.
Pam has developed strong collaborations with the City’s Public Health team which was demonstrated through the work of the Public Health Team’s response and recovery plans where Pam was involved from a transport and safer travel perspective.
Pam should be recognised as a Public Health Hero because the work she does directly works to address the wider determinants of health which influences and impacts on the health of people in Portsmouth.
