No 6325
Wednesday 13 November 2013
Vol cxliv No 8
pp. 92–100
The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine and the Committee of Management of the Institute of Public Health, have approved amendments to the constitution and management of the Institute of Public Health.
By amending the regulations for the management and the Director of the Institute so as to read:
1. The Institute of Public Health shall be an institution within the Faculty of Clinical Medicine, and shall be under the general control of a Committee of Management, which shall consist of:
(a)the Director;
(b)the Regius Professor of Physic;
(c)one person appointed by the General Board;
(d)one person appointed by the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine;
(e)one person appointed by the Medical Research Council;
(f)one person appointed by the Secretary of State for Health;
(g)not more than five persons co-opted at the discretion of the Committee.
2. Members in classes (c), (d), (e), and (f) shall be appointed in the Michaelmas Term to serve for four years from 1 January following their appointment. Co-opted members in class (g) shall serve until 31 December of the year in which they are co-opted or of the year next following, as the Committee shall determine at the time of their co-optation.
3. The Committee shall elect one of their members other than the Director to be their Chairman and to serve for three years from 1 January following her or his election. The Director of the Institute shall serve as Secretary of the Committee.
4. Subject to the powers of the Council, the General Board, and the Faculty Boards concerned, the duties of the Committee shall be as follows:
(a)in collaboration with the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine, and with any other Faculty Boards concerned, to promote teaching in the field of public health, and to promote research in that field and the publication of the results of such research;
(b)to collaborate with outside bodies in the encouragement of teaching and research in public health;
(c)to administer funds allocated to them for the purposes specified in (a) and (b) above;
(d)to establish such advisory bodies, representing interests and activities associated with public health as it sees fit;
(e)to approve annual estimates prepared by the Executive Committee for submission to the General Board;
(f)to make an Annual Report to the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine on the affairs of the Institute;
(g)the Committee of Management may designate, for a period not exceeding five years at a time, one of the Executive Committee of the Institute to act as Deputy Director.
5. The Institute shall have an Executive Committee, the membership of which shall be:
(a)the Director of the Institute;
(b)the Head of the Department of Public Health and Primary Care;
(c)the Director of the MRC Epidemiology Unit;
(d)the Director of the MRC Biostatistics Unit;
(e)the Heads of any Public Health England Units based at the Institute;
(f)other persons co-opted at the discretion of the Committee.
6. The Executive Committee shall:
(a)promote and enable research and teaching in the field of public health and the publication of the results of such research;
(b)administer funds allocated to the Institute to support its mission;
(c)prepare annual estimates for submission to the Committee of Management.
1. There shall be a University office of Director of the Institute, which may be held in conjunction with another University office.
2. The Director shall be appointed by the General Board on the recommendation of the Committee of Management. He or she shall hold office for five years, and shall be eligible for reappointment.
3. Under the general control of the Committee of Management, the Director shall be the administrative Head of the Institute, and shall be responsible for the direction of study and research in public health in the Institute and the promotion of the subject generally.