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Stephen Battersby is a freelance Housing and Environmental Health Consultant and is also currently President of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.


He is an Associate of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Housing Standards and Health at Warwick University. At Warwick he has undertaken research into housing standards and their implementation that led to the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) and was a member of the team that developed the HHSRS. He is an Associate of the Environmental Regulation Research Group in the Law School at Surrey University and also of the Robens Centre for Public and Environmental Health at Surrey. He is also a visiting lecturer at Kings College, London.


He represents the CIEH on the National House Building Council, is a member of the UKPHA's Advisory Group on Housing Health and Fuel Poverty, and also chairs the CIEH National Pest Advisory Panel. He has also been adviser to the European Regional Office of the World Health Organisation.


He is Contributing Editor of Croner's Environmental Management and Croner's Environment News.