Dr Daniel Jones
Dr Daniel Jones is a Public Health Specialty Registrar based in Cardiff, working in Public Health Wales. His work there has included projects on the wider determinants of health, screening programme transformation, quality management systems, health protection, and inclusion health. His key interests are wider determinants and health inequalities.
He read medicine at the University of Oxford and graduated in 2018, having also completed an intercalated BA in Medical Sciences and a research studentship with the British Heart Foundation. He then completed an Academic Foundation Programme in Bristol themed in Public Health and including epidemiology research, using Mendelian Randomisation techniques. As part of his Public Health training he has also obtained a Masters in Public Health (Distinction) from Cardiff University and Membership of the Faculty of Public Health.
Dan has held a number of leadership roles, including running medical societies and a local charity branch at medical school and, since medical school, holding a number of roles in the British Medical Association. These roles have included local and national negotiation and representation as well as the organisation of national conferences. He is currently a representative in his workplace and on the Welsh Council and Doctors Committee and is an Officer for the UK Public Health Medicine Committee and Conference.
Outside of medicine and trade unionism, Dan enjoys running with his local LGBTQ+ running club as well as reading and hiking. He is also a second language Welsh speaker and enjoys Welsh language heritage, culture and language events and festivals.
Reason for applying for the scheme
Dan has long held an interest in medical leadership and management. He applied for the fellowship to further develop these skills, to gain experience and to work with inspiring medical leaders. He believes that establishing effective and compassionate leadership throughout the health and care system, alongside social partnership with trade unions, will be a key element in addressing challenges ahead, especially on workforce.
Personally, he has always enjoyed learning about leadership and management and has relished the leadership opportunities he has had so far. In particular, he has loved resolving local workplace issues and helping to challenge and transform structures and ways of working. He has also throughly enjoyed public health policy work and seeing its impact as well as meeting other prospective leaders. He saw the fellowship as a means to gaining more experience and insight into all of these.
He hopes to return to training from his fellowship with new connections, knowledge and skills, better equipped to become a senior leader in Public Health and in his trade union. He aspires, in his future career, to develop and implement policies that equitably protect and improve population health, for current and future generations.
