Lord Hunt of Kings Heath was Minister of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change until the recent change of government. He was also Deputy Leader of the House of Lords.
He also served as a Minister in the Department of Health, Department of Work and Pensions, Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Ministry of Justice. Lord Hunt was also Health Minister on two occasions.
He is currently Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords.
He is a previous chief executive of the NHS Confederation and a co-Chair of the Association for Public Health.
Baroness Cumberlege was appointed a Health Minister in 1992 and worked in this role until 1997, when she acted as Opposition Spokesperson for Health. A former health authority Chair, Baroness Cumberlege is Chair of the Association of Medical Research Charities. The author of several national reports on health matters, she championed the introduction of nurse prescribing.
Baroness Massey of Darwen was the Director of the Family Planning Association from 1989 to 1994 and was made a Life Peer in 1999. Prior to that, she held senior positions at the Health Education Authority. She is currently Chair of the National Treatment Agency and a member of the Board of UNICEF.
Selwyn Hodge is a retired educational consultant. Trained as a research chemist, he has taught and held posts of responsibility in schools, colleges and universities. He has been a schools’ science adviser in local government and Chief Education Adviser and Senior Assistant Director of Education for a local authority. He has inspected schools nationally for OFSTED. He has considerable experience of managing children’s services and has worked to improve joint working between health, education and social services.
He has a particular interest in child protection and in promoting personal, health and social education among young people. He has been the Chair of the Greater Manchester Federation of Clubs for Young People for 4 years and is also a trustee of the national body – Clubs for Young People UK.
He is also Chair of Oldham Breathe Easy, a support group for people with respiratory problems, and a member of both the regional committee and the national support sub-committee of the British Lung Foundation.
After senior roles in NHS public health, management and in medical education, including DPH, Trust Medical Director and associate Dean of postgraduate medical education, Fiona spent two years at the English Dept of Health leading public health development, and was subsequently Coordinator of the London Teaching Public Health Network, based at LSHTM. She is currently: part-time GP and associate medical director, NHS Luton; joint editor of Public Health; Board Member, UK Voluntary Register for PH Specialists; hon. senior lecturer, UCL; General Medical Council Fitness to Practise panel member and Visitor for the GMC’s Quality Assurance programme for Basic Medical Education.
Nigel’s current position is Chief Executive of the British Dental Health Foundation from June 1997.
His previous work included practicing dentistry in Birmingham and Midlands from 1975 to 1997 and became Principal of a training company delivering training to dental nurses and dental technicians from 1983 to date. Nigel has gained a Bachelor of Dental Surgery University of Birmingham 1975, Licentiate in Dental Surgery of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1975.
Nigel has had considerable media exposure. He has been an experienced broadcaster for over 20 years with multiple radio and television appearances and has had media training with Peter Sissons and others. Nigel has appeared on around 75 local and national radio broadcasts per year, Radio 5 live, BBC World Service, Radio 4 etc. and TV experience with Central TV, Meridian, BBC1, TV am, GMTV.
He is a resident dentist for Anne and Nick magazine show at Pebble Mill for BBC.
Carol Wallace is Principal Lecturer in Food Safety Management at the University of Central Lancashire, where she leads the highly successful MSc in Food Safety Management by eLearning. Carol’s background is in microbiology and food safety. Her career spans nearly 25 years in the food industry; in food manufacturing, retailing, consultancy, and academia. She is Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, the Institute of Food Science and Technology and the Higher Education Academy, and is a Chartered Scientist and world authority on the HACCP system of food safety management.
Carol’s key research interests include effectiveness of systems delivering food safety from farm to fork and potential
transferability of structured, preventative systems used for food safety management to other areas of patient safety.
She is keen to emphasis the food professional’s perspective on food issues as part of the multidisciplinary approach to protecting and promoting public health.
Dr Heather Hartwell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Services Management at Bournemouth University, specialising in the subjects of nutrition and food safety. She is a registered nutritionist, Member of the Nutrition Society, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Heather is also the Honorary Editor of the RSPH []’s members' journal.
Heather was appointed Chief External Examiner for CIEH in 2007, and her current research interest is in hospital food service.
Dr Jenny Lisle qualified in medicine at University College London Medical School, followed by an MSc at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and specialist qualifications [] with the Faculty of Public Health (FPH) of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK.
MSc dissertation on ‘Inclination to use birth control among unmarried girls’. Worked in community health services
and in psychosexual medicine. Over ten years gained occupational health experience with several organisations, then established JRHA, Joint Research and Health Advisers in 1985, specialising in the health and wellbeing of people at work. Consultancy work and research projects were carried out for clients in the public and private sectors, for small firms, multinational corporations and trade unions. Particular interests were mental health of people at work, health promotion and counselling.
Participation in many working groups: as leader for FPH on ‘Health Promotion in the Workplace’; member of a joint
Faculties group (FOM &FPH) producing ‘Creating a Healthy Workplace’ 2006.
Present Post (since 1997): Consultant Occupational and Public Health Physician, Bristol Royal Infirmary, and Director, Centre for Health in Employment and the Environment, Bristol Royal Infirmary. Qualifications []: MBChB (Otago), FRCP, FFOM, FFPH, FAFPHM, MSc(MedSc), DCH, DPH. Education & Training: Undergraduate training in NZ, his home country; Dual nationality; All postgraduate training in the UK. Consultant Senior Lecturer in Occupational Medicine & Public Health Medicine, University of Bristol, 1986-1996. Started and co-Directed at request of the WHO, Centre for Environmental Health Promotion and Ecology, University of Bristol 1989-96.
Research and teaching interests: environmental epidemiology, physical pollutants and effects on health, arts, health and well-being [q.v. www.artsaccessinternational.org], human settlement needs for sustainable development, cultural and social capital growth. Principal Board, Council and Committees served: RIPH [] Council; Board of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine (FOM); Ethics Committee, FOM; Fellowship Committee, FOM; Communications Committee, FOM; FPHM-FOM Liaison Committee for Environmental Health; Liaison Person in the UK, NZ College of Community Medicine; Nuffield Trust Steering Group for Arts and Health; Society of Occupational Medicine Editorial Panel; WHO Adviser, Target 24, HFA Programme, Tourist Health & Travel Medicine, & for Environment & Well-being.
Pamela is a founder Director and the first Chief Executive of Water UK. Set up in April 1998, Water UK focuses on policy identification, development and delivery, pioneering working in partnership with a broad range of stakeholders in the UK, Brussels and internationally. She was previously Chief Executive of the Water Companies Association before winding it up to form Water UK.
Pamela was the BBC’s Director of Corporate Affairs world-wide and a member of its main board and before that she headed up the British Medical Association’s public policy work as a member of its main board.
She has worked as a management consultant for the World Health Organization, the NHS and the Design Council.
Her charity work includes being a trustee and treasurer of the Royal Society of Arts, a WaterAid trustee, a founder Trustee of the Foundation for AIDs, and a trustee for Children in Need.
She is a former President of the European Union of National Associations of Water Suppliers and Waste Water Services, former President of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and Chair of its Professional Practices committee and a former Board Member of the Public Health Laboratory Service.
Pamela is a mentor to senior business leaders with the London First Scheme.
Pamela was awarded the OBE in 2004
Andrée Le May is a Professor of Nursing at the University of Southampton. She has particular expertise in nursing older people as well as a long standing interest in understanding how knowledge is used by practitioners; she has recently been working on research focused on the development and evaluation of Communities of Practice as a means of practicing improvement and the diffusion of innovations (e.g. Treatment Centres) into the NHS.
Before moving into the Higher Education sector in the early 1990s, Andrée held a variety of community nursing posts, which focused on promoting health in schools and local communities, and who also worked as a Research and Development Specialist Nurse in a District General Hospital in Greater London. In addition to these practices and research interests she has extensive experience in managing people, projects and resources.
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