Dr. Alan Smith MICGP MPH MFPHMI FFPH (UK) Biography
Dr Smith is a 1992 medical graduate from University College Dublin and is dual EU certified in both General Practice and Public Health Medicine.
He began his public health career in Ireland (1999-2003) with the Health Protection Surveillance Centre. He subsequently went on to work for Departments of Public Health in the former North-Eastern Health Board, the Eastern Regional Health Authority and the Department of Health and Children in the Division of the Chief Medical Officer.
In the UK (2003-2007) he was employed by the Health Protection Agency (HPA), Centre for Infections a world leader in the field of health protection. During this time he worked at local, regional and national levels within the HPA organisation. He worked across a number of divisions including the respiratory, gastrointestinal, STI, blood borne virus, healthcare associated infections and vaccine preventable disease divisions. He also spent time on secondment to the UK Department of Health, Immunisation Division. His primary role was to provide clinical and epidemiological advice to the Department of Health and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) about existing and emerging immunisation programmes. His role also included the provision of briefings to Ministers, the Chief Medical Officer and senior colleagues in relation to vaccine preventable disease programmes including HPV vaccines. He has published widely in a number of peer reviewed journals including the Lancet (Infectious Diseases), Vaccine and the BMJ.
He is currently Medical Director for Screening Policy in the National Cancer Screening Service (2007-present) where he is a senior policy and public health advisor on the planning, delivery and implementation of population cancer screening programmes for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer.
