Senior Communications Officer at Public Health Scotland. I have provided communications support and advice to the COVID-19 Incident Management Team throughout the pandemic. I am also the PHS Communications Lead for Place. Chartered PR Practitioner and MCIPR accredited practitioner. PRCA PR Leadership Diploma and holder of the Government Communications Service professional certificate in Communications. Scottish Women in Journalism Committee member, Vice Chair of Govanhill Baths Community Trust board and Chair of Child Protection Scotland Committee's comms sub group.. I have been supporting Public Health Scotland's COVID-19 Incident Management Team through the pandemic. PR professional since 1990 who has held key positions during times of major change in the NHS, during local government re-organisation and as Communications Manager for Railtrack Scotland during privatisation.

Connecting public health to wider communications issues. Supporting others with crisis communications.

I am a punk performance poet. I run a local record club and love going to gigs. Reading - I'm in two book clubs. Theatre - my degree is in Drama and English. Photography (I studied Photography with Sam Taylor-Johnson).

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Producing the comms plan for Women in Journalism Scotland. Comms work on Minimum Unit Pricing, the Place Standard, Active Travel, health and justice, health and homelessness and the links between health inequalities and poverty. Strategic comms work on making the national NHS boards in Scotland more collaborative. Govanhill Baths' community consultation (it got over 5,000 responses in 52 languages). Govanhill Book Festival. Helping to make Louder Than Words financially viable.