Julie Hall (public health)

Julie Lyn Hall

MBE

is a public health specialist from the United Kingdom.

Education and career

Hall obtained her B.Sc degree in Medical Sociology from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London University, in 1991. She obtained a diploma from the Royal Australian College of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1996, specializing in antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care of women and their families, and reproductive health. She obtained her Masters in Public Health at James Cook University, Queensland in 1998, with studies focused on improving health in remote and rural communities. In 2003, Hall completed her four-year training programme as a public health physician, becoming a Member of the Faculty of Public Health, Royal College of Physicians.^[1]

Hall first worked with the WHO as a Medical Officer of the Global Alert and Response Team at the WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland during the

H1N1 pandemic.^[3] She worked at the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office as the Executive Officer to the Regional Director from 2010 to 2012. Hall’s last position before her assignment as WHO Representative to the Philippines in 2013 was as a Global Team Leader for the eradication of polio in UNICEF

New York.

Hall has been noted for her work in coordinating the local response to the health emergencies caused by

Red Cross volunteer in Baguio City at age 18.^[1]

Advocacy effort

Hall initiated the "Health at the Heart of Healing" advocacy campaign of WHO Philippines as a means of sustaining awareness and support for ongoing health efforts in the Typhoon Yolanda corridor, and subsequent health-related programs and initiatives to follow.[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "WHO Representative to the Philippines". WHO. 23 December 2013. Archived from the original on 10 September 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
^ "Global Alert and Response". 17 December 2013. Archived from the original on 23 February 2003. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
^ "Global Alert and Response". 10 August 2010. Archived from the original on 28 April 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
^ "Philippines typhoon: UK doctors speak from storm-hit country". 17 November 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
^ "WHO pleads for calamity victims: Have a heart". 18 January 2013. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.

[Philstar-1] "WHO Representative to the Philippines". WHO. 23 December 2013. Archived from the original on 10 September 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2013.

[2] "Global Alert and Response". 17 December 2013. Archived from the original on 23 February 2003. Retrieved 23 December 2013.

[3] "Global Alert and Response". 10 August 2010. Archived from the original on 28 April 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2013.

[4] "Philippines typhoon: UK doctors speak from storm-hit country". 17 November 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2013.

[5] "WHO pleads for calamity victims: Have a heart". 18 January 2013. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.

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