Angela Mawle - Chief Executive, UK Public Health Association

UK Public Health Association (UKPHA)

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For 13 years Angela was a nurse and health visitor. But during this time she began to build her interest in environmental matters. Becoming an elected member on Southampton City Council, where she lives, she set up and chaired the Council's first Environmental Committee. Taking her environmental interests further, she took a degree in Environmental Sciences at Southampton University and then an MSc in Environmental Technology at Imperial College.

She then made what some might describe as a 'career leap' - to environmental consulting, working as an Environmental Scientist, at Mott MacDonald, Consulting Engineers.

In 1990, she went back to Imperial College, this time contributing to research and teaching on environmental pollution and the organisation of finances and human resources.

Four years later, Angela took up the post of Director of the Women's Environmental Network (London) and the International Coalition for Development Action (Brussels), where she campaigned on environmental issues including waste minimisation, air pollution and sustainable development. Angela then moved back to her earlier interest - health in communities - but now added the environmental element, taking up the post of Sustainable City Manager for Bristol City Council.

In June 2003 Angela became the Chief Executive of UKPHA, a role which has enabled her to champion the vision that public health is about the environment and society in which we live. Whilst at UKPHA, Angela has developed links and projects on fuel poverty, green exercise and more recently planning and housing.