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Professor David Pontin is the Aneurin Bevan Chair of Community Health, School of Care Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Education, University of South Wales.

David has nearly 40 years’ experience as a registered nurse (adult, child and public health/health visiting) and has taught/researched in Universities for over 20 years. His research interests are: community nursing, and family and child health.
He is co-Chair of the Faculty Community Health and Care Cognate Group, which has expertise in patient safety, health and social care policy, industry research, evaluation and assessment, and clinical and professional practice research.
Over the past five years, David has been a co-applicant or PI on over 10 research projects, with budgets totalling £730,000.
David brings considerable experience of working in multidisciplinary teams, designing and delivering applied healthcare research projects. Recent examples include: using
virtual commissioning techniques in the development, testing and implementation of FRAIT (Family Resilience Assessment Instrument and Tool) www.frait.wales, a core element of Welsh Government’s Healthy Child Wales Programme delivered by health visitors to every child in Wales. He is also a core member of the Welsh Social Prescribing Research Network, and the social prescribing research theme of PRIME Centre Wales, funded by Health and Care Research Wales.

David is an experienced doctoral supervisor, examiner and independent chair.