Professor Dame Sarah Cowley is a British

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and academic, specialising in the field of health visiting.

Biography

Cowley started a career in

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as a health visitor and practice teacher. After completing doctoral studies, she joined the faculty of

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leading the University's programme in health visiting and district nursing programme. She was appointed Professor of Community Practice Development in 1997, and retired in 2012. During her career she served on a number of editorial boards, and was the author of paper and books including ''Community Public Health in Policy and Practice'' (Elsevier, 2008) and, with Marion Frost, ''The Principles of Health Visiting: Opening the door to public health'' (2006).

Career

Professor Cowley has served as: *Adjunct Professor,

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*Visiting Professor

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*Member of the

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*Past Chair of the Community Practitioners’ and Health Visitors’ Association (CPHVA) *Fellow and former vice-chair of the Queen’s Nursing Institute *Professorial Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health *Fellow of the Irish Institute of Community Health Nursing.

Honours

In 2012, she was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the CPHVA. She was raised to

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(DBE) for services to health visiting in the

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