Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health (PDF)

Stephen Battersby is a Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner and has been an independent environmental health and housing consultant for 32 years. His first degree was in chemistry and applied zoology, before he trained as a public health inspector, qualifying in 1974. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Surrey in 2002. After working for a number of local authorities in England, he was employed by the environmental health professional body (now the CIEH) from 1980 to 1988. Since then, he has been associated with both Warwick and Surrey Universities. As a freelance consultant he has also been an expert witness in housing litigation. At Warwick University, among other research projects he was part of the team that developed the Housing Health and Safety Rating System, the basis for assessing housing conditions under the Housing Act 2004. He has undertaken research (including on the public health implications of urban rat infestations) and lectured on environmental health at the University of Surrey. He has also been a visiting lecturer at King's College London and Kingston University. He also helped establish RHE Global as a resource for those working in housing. He remains a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Surrey . He chaired the CIEH Council in 2005 and was President from 2008 to 2011 and is currently a Vice President. He was awarded an MBE for services to Environmental Health in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours List. He is the series editor of Routledge's Focus on Environmental Health series and has also contributed to publications in the series. He has written and spoken extensively on environmental health and housing matters.