Kevin Fenton

Kevin Andrew Fenton FFPH (born 19 December 1966)[1] is a regional director at Public Health England. He was formerly director of the United States National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Kevin Fenton
Born (1966-12-19) 19 December 1966
Glasgow, Scotland
Alma materUniversity of the West Indies
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
University College London
Scientific career
InstitutionsHealth Protection Agency
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
ThesisRace, ethnicity and the epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections (2005)

Early life and education

Fenton was born in Glasgow, Scotland to Sydney and Carmen Fenton. He grew up in Jamaica, where his father was head of the science department at Excelsior High School and his mother was a nurse at the hospital of the University of the West Indies (UWI). Fenton attended Wolmer's Boys' School in Kingston where he completed 'O' Levels and 'A' Levels before graduating. He then went on to attend The UWI, first as a computer science major but later he graduated with an MD from the UWI Medical School, where he was elected class president for the 1985-86 school year. He completed residencies at Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay and University College Hospital in Kingston.[1]

Career

Working as a government doctor in Lucea, Jamaica caused Fenton to concentrate on public health. He earned an MPH from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1992 and a doctorate in epidemiology from University College London. Fenton became a senior lecturer on HIV epidemiology and honorary consultant epidemiologist at the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre of the UK's National Health Service and a lead researcher on the second National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles in 2000 and 2001. In 2002 he became director of the Centre's Health Protection Agency HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections Department.[1]

Fenton joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2005, initially as director of the National Syphilis Elimination Effort, then director of the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, renamed the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention in 2007.[1]

In 2011 and 2012, Fenton appeared on The Root's "The Root 100" list of "black achievers and influencers between the ages of 25 and 45".[2][3]

Fenton left CDC, and the USA, in 2012 to join the new English national public health body, Public Health England, as head of its directorate of health improvement and population healthcare, renamed health and wellbeing shortly before April 2013's official commencement of the organisation. As of 2015, Fenton was paid a salary of between £175,000 and £179,999 by the department, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.[4]

In February 2017, he was announced as Southwark Council's new Director of Health and Wellbeing, working on secondment from Public Health England.[5]

As of 2020, Fenton is Public Health England's Regional Director of Public Health for London.[6]

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gollark: money.
gollark: pls latex b + ba + ba^2 + ba^3 + \ldots + ba^n
gollark: Yes, this was a question on some maths homework I did ages ago. Consider: n time units after you start doing this, if your money increases by a factor of a per time unit (1 + interest rate % / 100) and pay in b per time unit, you will have
gollark: I'm sure you can do some sort of geometric series thing.

References
  1. "Kevin Fenton." Contemporary Black Biography. Vol. 87. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 28 Jan. 2013.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 January 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 April 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Senior officials 'high earners' salaries as at 30 September 2015 - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  5. "National health expert Professor Kevin Fenton announced as Southwark Council's new Director of Health and Wellbeing". Southwark Council.
  6. "Leadership chart" (PDF). GOV.UK. Public Health England. July 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
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