Health professional Prior to her ordained ministry, Radford was a
public health physician who was the
Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England from 2015 to 2019. Radford led on the
Department of Health's response to the early-2000s
Shipman Inquiry and represented the Chief Medical Officer on the
World Health Organization's Western Pacific Regional Committee. After leaving the Department of Health in 2007, Radford was Director of Public Health in Fife, Director of Public Health for East of England and Centre Director for Anglia and Essex for Public Health England. Radford was a keynote speaker at a 2017 rare diseases conference organised by the
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. In November 2020, Radford was confirmed as a trustee of the UK National Organisation for
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Radford also broadcasts on television, acts as an expert opinion in health matters, and is a governor of
Marjon University in
Plymouth, Devon, England.
Ordained ministry Radford trained for ordination with the
Eastern Region Ministry Course on a part-time basis from 2014 to 2016. She was
ordained in the
Church of England as a
deacon in 2016 and as a
priest in 2017. She was a
curate at
St James' Church, Lode, in the
Diocese of Ely from May 2016 to 2019. She was installed as
team vicar of
St Petroc's Church,
South Brent,
Devon in June 2019. ==References==