Dominic Harrison is the Joint Director of Public Health for Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council and PCT. He was previously employed as the Deputy Regional Director of Public Health within the Department of Health, Government Office North West in England. He has also worked as an Associate Director for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the Health Development Agency.
Dominic holds an honorary academic post with the University of Central Lancashire and is Chair of Common Ground North West – a regional community cohesion NGO, a member of the management committees of Global Link-Development Education Centre and Marsh Age Link in Lancaster - where he lives with his partner and two children.
Dominic has worked in health promotion, public health and health policy at community, local, regional and national levels since 1980. He has also managed the World Health Organization (WHO) English Health Promoting Hospitals Network in Europe from 1992-1998. He has undertaken a wide range of international health development work in Central and Eastern Europe mostly on the development of public health systems at national and regional levels and contributed to the development of the WHO European Investment for Health and Development Programme, working closely with the WHO Venice office.
Dominic has published in both professional and peer reviewed journals on public health and health promotion policy - particularly in relation to the evidence base for public health, social systems intervention, sustainability, integrated impact appraisal, and politics and public health. He holds a post-graduate qualification in health education, a Masters Degree in Public Health and he is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health.
