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Dr Jeanelle Louise de Gruchy is a UK public health official. Dr de Gruchy has been serving as a Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England since 3 September 2021. She previously served as Director of Public Health (DPH) for Tameside in Greater Manchester and President (2018-2021) of the UK Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH). As president, she published principles for local management of the SARS 2 epidemic (local outbreak plans) covering public health leadership, whole system, resourcing and effectiveness. She attended
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for the 58th meeting on 21st September 2020 which recommended a new response including a short 'circuit breaker' lockdown and subsequent meetings from December. Originally from
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, Dr de Gruchy was previously DPH in Haringey in
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, serving as vice president of ADPH in that time, and deputy DPH in
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. Early in her career she wrote about the ethical challenges of health systems under apartheid.


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