Public Health
Welcome to the Yorkshire and Humber School of Public Health We are a dynamic, friendly, and supportive specialty school delivering high quality, comprehensive training for individuals wishing to become Consultants in Public Health.
The whole school is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and we have reviewed our approach to this recently. We want to help more people with varied experiences, backgrounds and ideas thrive as future leaders and do our part to tackle the systemic injustices that make it harder for brilliant people to contribute as leaders.
Our school is based in Leeds, but we provide training opportunities across the whole of the North, East, South and West Yorkshire, incorporating large cities, smaller towns, and rural settings, and including populations of significant affluence and marked deprivation. Our registrars gain public health experience within many settings, including local authorities, national and local NHS organisations, academic institutions, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID). We also support more diverse training opportunities, reflecting the expanding role of public health across different organisations. We currently have 38 registrars on our training programme.
To find out more about some of our current Postgraduate Doctors in Training (PGDiTs), click here. To hear from some of our Educational Supervisors, please click here. Each educational supervisor brings their considerable and diverse experience which helps to ensure that all our registrars benefit from only the best training experiences.
Our website provides useful information for anyone interested or involved in public health training in Yorkshire and Humber. The pages in the Public Health Menu above provide more details about the school, recruitment, and training, as well as links to other information sources. If you can’t find what you are looking for, please let us know let us know
Recruitment 2025/26
Recruitment Information Session - Wednesday 15th October 2025 - 2pm – 4.30pm
Please note there is no need to register in advance, to join the session please click on the following:
Don’t forget to add the date, time and joining link to your calendar!
Open Day for Public Health Registrar Recruitment October 2025
Slides are available - here
You can scroll through the video to hear about the experiences of our Registrars and Consultants:
1. Introduction from Helen Christmas – Training Programme Director
2. School of Public Health and Specialty Training Programme - Helen Christmas
3. Opportunities Working with Local Authorities - Carrie Abbott – Service Director Barnsley MBC
4. Working with OHID (Office of Health Improvement and Disparities) - Chris Sharp – Workforce Development Manager, OHID
5. Working in the Acute sector - Andy Snell – Consultant in Public & Global Health
6. Working in Academia - Kelly Mackenzie – Sheffield University
7. Experiences as a Public Health Registrar - Bebhinn Browne – ST4 Registrar
8. Working with UKHSA (United Kingdom Health Security Agency) - Simon Padfield/Pete Hudson – ST5 Registrar
9. The Application Process - Elizabeth Westwood – ST3 Registrar
10. Q & A Session - Helen Christmas / All Speakers
Ms Val Barker FFPH
Head of School of Public Health Yorkshire and Humber
Visiting Chair in Public Health - University of Leeds
Recruitment is managed nationally via East Midlands and all enquiries are via email or see their website
An FAQ document is available here
The Faculty of Public Health provides a wealth of information and is the best place to find out about the application process. The Yorkshire and Humber region usually holds its recruitment event every October, ahead of the application process opening in November through Oriel. Please contact us if you wish to be on the circulation list for the next event.
Please review all three sections in the Recruitment and Retention part of this website
Please watch this Introduction to Public Health video by the Wessex Deanery.
Useful links:
There are 4 more arranged public health online drop-in sessions for potential applicants to be able to talk to a current registrar.
Please see dates and times below (Scan QR code to access or click the link below):
- Wednesday 22nd October 12-1pm
- Thursday 6th November 4-5pm
- Monday 17th November 12-2pm
- Monday 1st December 8.30am-9.30am
The link to access the drop in sessions is https://us04web.zoom.us/s/96314114061?pwd=aWS3DSPt63BONnQVsvGpjviOeOmvvD.1#success
Meeting ID: 963 1411 4061 and Passcode: 4AVaMx
Information about the Specialty Training recruitment process is available on the Faculty of Public Health website: National Public Health Specialty Training Recruitment - FPH - Faculty of Public Health
Details about the application process can be found here: Public Health | Medical Hub (hee.nhs.uk)
Person Specification including eligibility: Public Health ST1 2025 | Medical Hub (hee.nhs.uk)
Successful candidates could be working in any one of the 15 councils across Yorkshire. After the successful candidates have been made an offer, The Head of school, and potential Educational Supervisors will be in contact to make sure there is capacity in the candidates desired location.
TPDs try to allocate posts that are reasonably commutable to the candidate’s current geographical position. For example, if a registrar lives in West Yorkshire, it would be one of the 5 councils in West Yorkshire, and so on across the county.
Please visit the Faculty of Public Health website for full recruitment information.