Paul Oatt

Paul Oatt BSc (Hons) MSc CEnvH FCIEH is a Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner and CIEH fellow with over 20 years experience in Environmental Health and Housing Enforcement. He studied Environmental Health at Middlesex University and went on to study Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

His first book Selective Licensing: The Basis for a Collaborative Approach to Addressing Health Inequalities, examines property licensing and regulatory enforcement. Paul took many successful prosecutions against criminal landlords renting out sub-standard properties with hazardous conditions and recently wrote a chapter for Regulating the Privately Rented Housing Sector: Evidence into Practice to guide professionals in housing regulation and implementation. His second book Private Sector Housing and Health Evaluating the Effectiveness of Regulation Intended to Protect the Health of Tenants examines effectiveness of policy and regulation to prevent retaliatory and illegal evictions, their health effects and socio-economic causal factors to determine feasibility and implementation of policy to protect security of tenure.