Linda Seymour (BA, MA, FRSA)
Linda Seymour has been a non-executive director at NICE since the end of 2009.
Career history
For more than twenty years Linda has worked extensively in health promotion and public health. She was a member of the national research team (1994-99) evaluating the Health Education Authority's Health at Work in the NHS programme. She is an experienced trainer and worked for five years with the Public Health Resource Unit (PHRU) at Oxford HealthAuthority delivering workshops on critical appraisal skills, assessing the rigour and reliability of quantitative and qualitative research. More recently (2006 - 2010) she was Head of Policy at the former Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health (SCMH) specialising in promotion of mental health and wellbeing.
She has been a Board level Director in the NHS, at a health authority (East Sussex Health Authority, 1993-96); at South Downs Health NHS Trust (1998-2002); and at Sussex Partnership NHS Trust (2007). Currently she is an Honorary Research Fellow on the Research Committee of the British Occupational Health Research Foundation; a trustee of MIND, the national association for mental health; and a member of the editorial board of the Mental Health Review Journal.
This page was last updated: 07 April 2011
