Course Leaders

jan yates

Jan has held senior management positions for over 15 years within the NHS and worked across a range of public health and corporate areas, at local, regional and national level.

Alongside core service development and delivery work, she is a qualified teacher with front line teaching experience at all educational levels. Her public health specialist interests focus around education, leadership development and organisational change. Jan still teaches widely, and is accredited to provide Executive Coaching and occupational assessment.

Jan aims to help public health leaders find their own style and learn to trust themselves so they can confidently inspire changes, big and small. Jan also provides Public Health Consultancy Services

Kirsteen Watson (course facilitator)

Kirsteen began a career in leadership and communication early excelling in debating at national level.

After medical training and international work in paediatrics, Kirsteen went on to a Masters in Public Health at Harvard, focussed on leadership and child health. Completing her Public Health training in the East of England, she also gained a Masters in Medical Education specialising in Faculty Development and has been teaching Public Health and leadership at the University of Cambridge for 14 years.  

Now she combines this with the Training Programme Director role for PH in the East of England, being a lecturer and tutor on the Masters in Medical Education programme at Cambridge and delivering leadership training.

eustace de sousa (course facilitator)

Eustace in an Independent Consultant in Public Health. He has worked in social care, health and wellbeing for more than 20 years in the North West. He has managed adult and children’s social services, and led a range of regeneration, community, and housing programmes. He worked for the NHS in regional health authorities, overseeing health service performance and commissioning.

Peter Bradley

Peter has worked in senior public health positions for over 20 years, holding a number of high profile leadership positions. He has managed small teams and large departments with hundreds of staff at different sites.

After medical training, Peter worked in community child health, general practice, and public health. He has worked in England, Wales and Norway in local government, the NHS and civil service settings. He has a PhD in medical education and Masters degrees in Public Health and in Healthcare Ethics. Peter has a Level 5 coaching and mentoring qualification from the Institute of Leadership and Management. He has a particular interest in leadership, in supporting developing leaders and in how to increase the impact of public health actions.

rob marr (course facilitator)

Rob has over 20 years’ experience in healthcare, having worked his way up from a temporary clerical position to consultant and deputy director of public health. He has delivered challenging projects in local, regional and national roles across the healthcare system, for community providers, commissioners, specialist trusts, STPs, NGOs and local and national government.

Rob trained in public health in London, with an MSc from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He has a particular interest in how poverty and diet affect population health, working with the Centre for Diet and Physical Activity (CEDAR) at Cambridge University.  He has worked to improve nutrition in a range of settings, from clinics for severe acute malnutrition in Chad to developing a national strategy in a Crown Dependency.

Between 2013-2020 Eusatce worked at a national level for Public Health England, leading on health inequalities, child health and healthy ageing. As an Independent Consultant he has worked with Liverpool City Council successfully supporting their work on securing a £5m research grant on health determinants, and working with the Directors of Public Health across Cheshire and Merseyside on child poverty. He is an Honorary Fellow at the Royal College for Paediatric and Child Health.