Dr Gillian Holdsworth
Director
Dr Gillian Holdsworth is a public health expert medical doctor with advanced training in epidemiological methods, monitoring and evaluation.
Gillian was the public health lead for women and children's services, health protection and the educational supervisor in the joint Lambeth and Southwark public health department, London, UK, April 2013 - July 2016. She worked for NHS Southwark (London, UK) as the public health lead for cancer screening, women and children’s services and sexual health.
She has represented the Faculty of Public Health on the International Health Links Funding Programme selection panel, a joint Department of Health and DFID initiative, to improve links between the NHS and health services in developing countries.
Her international experience includes Nepal with the Britain Nepal Medical Trust, Lesotho with DfID, London with Health Unlimited and New York with the International Trachoma Initiative.
A fluent Nepali speaker, she now chairs the Britain Nepal Medical Trust and in 2007 walked across Nepal from the western border at Hilsa in Humla to the eastern border with Sikkim in Taplejung.
Gillian's publications
Syphilis is on the rise – here’s everything you need to knowCosmopolitan, London, June 2018
Web-Based Activity Within a Sexual Health Economy: Observational StudyJournal of Medical Internet Research, March 2018
Part of a system: changing place of online activity within the sexual health economyJournal of Medical Internet Research, March 2018
Transforming sexual health with technologyLocal Government association, July 2017
Exploitation in Online Sexual Health Services: An Exploratory Study of Expert ViewsJournal of Medical Internet Research, Feb 2017
Setting up a youth violence prevention project in a London hospital emergency departmentJournal of Public Mental Health, 2013
Controlled management of public relations following a public health incidentJournal of Public Health, 1999
