Tracy Daszkiewicz

Tracy Daszkiewicz (born 17 November 1973) is Executive Director of Public Health and Strategic Partnership at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. She is also the current President of the Faculty of Public Health and was formerly the Director of Public Health and Safety for the county of Wiltshire, England, where in 2018 she played a leading role in the response to the Novichok poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury.

Career

She began her career as a health clinic receptionist in Coventry, then undertook a degree in social work with the Open University.

Novichok poisonings

Although she had worked for Wiltshire Council for ten years, she had only been in post as Director of Public Health for three months at the time of the Skripal poisonings in March 2018 ). Her work on the incident, and the subsequent poisonings of Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess (the latter fatal), resulted in her being profiled by The Guardian in January 2019.

She was portrayed by Anne-Marie Duff (and was briefly seen, as herself, in a non speaking role ) in the three-part BBC Television drama The Salisbury Poisonings, screened in June 2020, Lawrence Bowen, the series' executive producer, said: The series resulted in her receiving renewed media attention, including an interview in The Telegraph, which described her as:

In June 2020, she joined Public Health England as Deputy Director of Population Health and Wellbeing for South-West England.

Awards Daszkiewicz received an honorary degree from the University of the West of England in 2022.

Personal life

Daszkiewicz is married to Ted (played by William Houston in The Salisbury Poisonings ), with three daughters and a son. As of 2020, the couple live near Salisbury.