Sally Markwell is a recognised specialist within the field of public health and multi-sectoral partnership development.

Over the last 20 years Sally has offered a variety of consultancies and academic training to local, national, and international organisations within local government, the NHS, and universities. She is currently working with the Health Economics Unit (Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit) to complete the development and validation of a digital ‘Improving Partnership Practice’ Tool which will be used to measure the extent of the capacity and consensus for collaboration within Integrated Care Systems.

Sally's career development is mapped through responsibilities held within both the acute and community sectors of the UK NHS, followed by a period of research and training in public health programme development within Eastern Europe. Her speciality in partnership improvement emerged through her experience in providing strategic leadership for health policy development to improve the health and well-being for a locality population of 110,000 within Wessex, accompanied by academic research into the development of tools for evaluating multi-sectoral partnerships. This led to a growing consultancy for the provision of public health training supporting a wide range of organizations within the public and not-for-profit sectors now provided on an ad hoc basis as required.

For the past 12 years, Sally held a position as senior lecturer in public health and nursing at Oxford Brookes University. This has provided opportunities for her to support the development of modular training for the Masters in Public Health (MPH) and the BSc/MSCi in Adult Nursing.  Students attending the postgraduate courses are a mix of home (UK based) and international, mainly drawn from Africa, Asia, South America and Europe and represent a range of disciplines across allied health, medicine, education, local government and international NGOs.

Sally is a keen advocate of international training and has invested much of her academic years providing increasing support for staff to identify the associations between public health and an internationalised curriculum leading to the potential use of a conceptual model, a ‘transtheoretical approach’ to change management. This provided opportunities for staff and student engagement in the development of intercultural perspectives and competencies. During this period Sally was also able to design and deliver a suite of basic and advanced courses in public health to over 200 public health professionals across Oxfordshire and Thames Valley through a locality grant from Health Education Thames Valley.