DEPARTMENT FOR
ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS News Release (210/08) issued by
The Government News Network on 3 July 2008
Information Bulletin
Catherine Brown has been appointed as Chief Executive of Animal
Health with effect from 16 July 2008. Formerly Chief Operating
Officer, Catherine succeeds Professor Steve Edwards, who has acted
as interim Chief Executive since March.
As Chief Executive, Catherine will be personally responsible to
Defra Ministers and to Ministers in Scotland and Wales for the
delivery of Animal Health's annual performance targets, and
to Parliament for ensuring propriety in management of public funds.
She will lead Animal Health through significant organisational
changes, including implementing the Agency's Business Reform
Programme, which will begin to modernise Animal Health's
operating model.
During this time, Animal Health will participate in the debate on
cost and responsibility sharing and on developing animal health
and welfare policies in England, Scotland and Wales.
Animal Health will also continue to deliver an effective response
to outbreaks of exotic and endemic animal disease in order to
protect public health and deliver a successful and sustainable
livestock industry.
Notes to Editors
Biographical Note
Catherine Brown joined Animal Health as
Chief Operating Officer in 2007. She had previously worked for
BUPA, whom she joined in 1997 after working in the NHS as deputy
chief executive of a Community and Mental Health Trust in the East
End of London.
Her BUPA career began as a general manager in Reading and Clare
Park Hospitals, then as a regional director of Hospitals in the
Eastern Region. She was appointed the managing director of BUPA
Wellness in 2001 and has also worked as a member of the Prime
Minister's Strategy Unit Employers' Working Party on Disability.
In 2005 she was appointed a Commissioner for the Equal
Opportunities Commission.
Animal Health
Animal Health is an Executive Agency of the
Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). It
works across Great Britain on behalf of Defra, the Scottish
Government and Welsh Assembly Government, and for the Food
Standards Agency.
Working collaboratively with the industry, delivery partners and
policy makers, Animal Health is responsible for leading the
control of notifiable animal diseases on the ground, because of
their economic or public health consequences, and for delivering
Government's wider objectives in animal health and welfare,
and in wildlife conservation.
For further information:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalhealth
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