Plenary speakers

 

1010

Morning Plenary

 

 

Max French

Dr. Max French is a Research Associate at Newcastle University Business School and the Open Lab. His PhD with Stirling University explored management and policy interventions which respond to the innate complexity of health and social outcomes. His work with colleagues at Newcastle University and internationally aims to develop complexity-consistent approaches to public service commissioning, management and delivery. He currently works with Lankelly Chase Foundation on funding systems change interventions for people living with multiple and complex needs.

 

1150

Morning Plenary

 

 

Helen Bailey

Helen Bailey is the interim Chief Executive of North Somerset Council.  Helen is an experienced public-sector leader.  That experience includes having been the chief executive of a London local authority, Director of Public Services at HM Treasury and the chief officer of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.  She has experience as a management consultant. 

Helen is also a non-executive director of a housing association and of the Guys and St Thomas Charitable Trust.

 

Virginia Pearson

Virginia is Chief Officer for Communities, Public Health, Environment and Prosperity and also Director of Public Health for Devon County Council, having previously worked in both service and academic public health in the South West.  She was a GP in Northampton before completing her training in public health.  She has held a number of senior professional, academic and general management roles at Director/Chief Executive level.  From January 2007 to March 2013 she was joint Director of Public Health for Devon Primary Care Trust and Devon County Council.  She is a Council Member of the Association of Directors of Public Health, representing the South West (South) area.

 

Sam Crowe

Sam Crowe is acting Director of Public Health for Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole Councils, and the Senior Responsible Officer for the Prevention at Scale Programme of the Dorset Sustainability and Transformation Programme.

 

Current responsibilities include building and embedding systematic approaches to prevention in the reforming public sector in Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole, leading the public health partnership through Local Government Reform, and ensuring we continue delivering a successful integrated Care System.

 

1400

Afternoon plenary

 

 

Dr James Szymankiewicz

James Szymankiewicz is a GP working in North Devon. He is currently Vice Chair of the GP Collaborative Board representing the 22 North Devon practices. In addition, he is the current Chair of Devon Local Nature Partnership which focuses on enhancing Devon’s natural environment. He has previously been a NEW Devon CCG locality board member and involved in the STP review process. A passionate environmentalist he has worked with several organisations over the years and is a founder member of Plastic Free North Devon. James has seen first-hand the toll our modern lifestyles take on our physical and mental health. He believes strongly that helping our communities reconnect with the natural world brings enormous benefits to individuals and the environment. Key to success with this is understanding individuals’ beliefs, values and the economic challenges they face. He brings to his roles extensive experience in partnership working and an enthusiasm and drive for protecting and improving our natural environment.  When he is not working James enjoys most sports and is a coach at his local rugby and surf lifesaving clubs. As a keen surfer he spends as much time as possible in the sea with his family!

 

Tracy Dasckiewicz

With over 25 years’ experience working across health and social care, Tracy started her career working for a specialist HIV charity where as well as working with her clients, Tracy also worked on complex immigration issues and developed a range of programmes to challenge the myths and stigma around HIV during the 90s. Tracy then spent many years working to improve outcomes for children and young people, both in the Midlands and the Berkshire areas; working to reduce risks to young people and tackle inequalities, working closely with young people who were being exploited, on the edge of crime or experiencing abuse. From here, Tracy Lobbied for changes to the way teenage parents accessed education and established funding for childcare. Tracy was also an active member of many groups and movements to bring equality for LGB communities and Transgender people. Much of Tracy’s career has been focused on inclusivity for groups who don’t experience equality of access to health, social care and other services. Tracy has been based in Wiltshire Public Health since 2008 where she was the lead for sexual and contraceptive health for 5 years, before gaining registration through the portfolio route onto the UKPHR, where she then took up a post as Consultant in Public Health. Tracy has been the DPH in Wiltshire since 2017, Tracy is also a lecturer and works across the Faculty of Health & Social Care as well as the Faculty of Social Science and the NHS leadership academy, and in her spare time she is [pretending to be] working on her PHD looking at sexual violence as a weapon of war. When work is done and the books are away, Tracy enjoys the company of 1 husband, 4 children and 2 grandboys.

Gemma Brinn MFPH DipHEP

Gemma is a ST4 public health registrar currently working with North Somerset Council and Public Health England South West in the Healthcare Public Health team. Prior to specialty training Gemma worked at NHS Wiltshire, the South West Strategic Health Authority and NHS England, covering portfolios including emergency planning and resilience, NHS Health Checks and the transition of public health to local authorities in 2013. She has a particular interest in behavioural insights and how they can be used to improve population health across all domains of public health. Recent work includes a project with the PHE Behavioural Insights Team in London on NHS Health Checks and how commissioning practices can be adapted to maximise impact of the programme.

 

 

 

Workshop leaders

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1a

Andrew Burnett

 

Andrew Burnett is the Interim Director for Public Health at North Somerset Council.

 

 

1b

Emma Kain

Emma is a Specialty Registrar in Public Health (ST4), currently based in Devon County Council. Prior to joining the training scheme she worked as a doctor in Winchester, Auckland and Exeter in both primary and secondary care roles. Emma’s areas of interest include drugs, alcohol and tobacco, sustainability and health, and Public Health ethics. This workshop follows a recent project with the Public Health England South West Health and Wellbeing team reviewing hepatitis C across the region, with a focus on increasing testing and diagnosis among people who inject drugs. 

 

Natalie Sims

After gaining a degree in Anthropology and an MSc in Public Health, Natalie has worked in various roles across the public health system. This includes many years working in tobacco control and specialist stop smoking services; providing face to face home interventions to vulnerable women in the most deprived areas in the South West, implementing NICE guidance for pregnant women and later commissioning tobacco control programmes and services. Natalie has a special interest in public health and health care research in the developing world, particularly in Africa.  Natalie joined Public Health England in late 2016 and leads a diverse portfolio including; adverse childhood experiences, migrant health, hepatitis C and drugs and alcohol.   

 

 

1c

Dave McConalogue

 

Dave is a Consultant in Public Health at Gloucestershire County Council.

 

Hayley Mortimer

Hayley Mortimer is a Public Health Specialist at Wiltshire Council.  Hayley’s portfolio area covers vulnerable communities and is responsible for the strategic delivery and commissioning of specialist support services for domestic abuse and sexual violence, as well as leading the development of a strategic framework for understanding the impact of vulnerability across the county and leading on the Homelessness health needs assessment for the council.   Hayley has over fourteen years’ experience working across a wide range of both public and community sector services.  She recently completed her Masters in Public Health in 2017.

 

 

1d

Helen Newberry

Helen joined Activity Alliance as an Engagement Advisor in 2017 having previously worked for England Athletics as Inclusion Manager. Covering the South West region, Helen supports key strategic partners to be more effective in enabling more disabled people be more active in sport and physical activity. Helen also has a background in Public Health working in the field of physical activity and nutrition.

 

Ben Humphrey

Ben is the Live Well Manager at Swindon Borough Council.  He currently co-ordinates a number of projects and programmes aimed at improving the health of Swindon residents through physical activity and education. Projects include, targeting those with disabilities, inactive residents and unhealthy families. His background is disability sport and inclusion. He has a track record of success of raising PA participation in underrepresented groups.  In terms of education, he studied a BSc Sport Management at Plymouth University, PG Dip Sport Development at University of Gloucestershire and is currently studying a part time MSc Public Health at UWE.

 

 

2a

Hayley Mortimer

 

Hayley Mortimer is a Public Health Specialist at Wiltshire Council.  Hayley’s portfolio area covers vulnerable communities and is responsible for the strategic delivery and commissioning of specialist support services for domestic abuse and sexual violence, as well as leading the development of a strategic framework for understanding the impact of vulnerability across the county and leading on the Homelessness health needs assessment for the council.   Hayley has over fourteen years’ experience working across a wide range of both public and community sector services.  She recently completed her Masters in Public Health in 2017.

 

 

2b

Louise Cole

Louise has a background in International and Organisational Development with a focus on young people and families and sexual and reproductive health.  She brings a diverse experience of change processes and asset development of staff and communities as well as policy and practice improvement in a strategic setting in her previous roles as South West Regional Director for the National Deaf Children’s Society, and Director of Development for Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education.

 

Lucy O’Loughlin

Lucy is a Public Health Specialist who has worked locally, regionally and nationally to improve health and wellbeing.  After a decade in district councils promoting physical activity, she joined the NHS and later Devon County Council, to lead a broader health improvement and tackling health inequalities function, including place-based community development and behavioural change programmes at individual, community and population level.    Passionate about collaborative approaches to system change, Lucy has facilitated joint working across many different disciplines to share understanding, build consensus, develop shared purpose and drive continuous improvement. Within the Cranbrook Healthy New Town programme, Lucy led the local programme for Devon County Council before appointing a dedicated team to drive it forward into its final phase. Her current focus is on workforce readiness for new care models, replication of learning at strategic level and using public health intelligence to drive and influence change across the system.

 

 

 

2c

Frances Clark-Stone

Frances is a Commissioning Officer in Public Health.  Frances has been working part time in public health since 2003 in number of roles including Food and health, Obesity, Arts and Health, and Mental Health and Wellbeing.  Her current role as Commissioning Officer at Gloucestershire County Council includes Improving pathways for Self Harm, Eating Disorders Prevention and Body Acceptance programme, Clinical Pharmacy Evaluation and supporting the  Military Covenant.  She also works part time as a visual artist.

 

Jennifer Taylor

Jennifer Taylor has been a Lead Commissioner in Public Health at Gloucestershire County Council since 2015, commissioning services for substance misuse and between 2015-2018 for public mental health. Until August 2018, she was the Chair of the Gloucestershire Suicide Prevention Partnership, working across sectors and with experts by experience to reduce deaths by suicide in the county, including through focused efforts to reduce self-harm and support those who self-harm to recover. She is now the lead for substance misuse, the wider determinants of health and Armed Forces Covenant. Having originally trained as a town planner, Jennifer has worked in local government for 14 years at both county and district level, in a range of service areas but always with a focus on delivering improvements for residents and communities through partnership working. Jennifer began her career in public art and continues to be passionate about the benefits of a quality built environment and participation in arts and culture to mental health and wellbeing. Outside her day job, she is a director of the arts organisation, Create Gloucestershire.

 

 

2d

Rachel Kwiatkowska 

Rachel is an NIHR public health academic clinical fellow working with Public Health England Field Service and the Health Protection Research Unit in Evaluation of Interventions. She has a particular interest in the epidemiology and surveillance of antimicrobial resistant organisms.

Dave McConalogue

Dave is a Consultant in Public Health at Gloucestershire County Council.

Maya Gobin

Maya Gobin in a Consultant Epidemiologist working with PHE, National infection Service in the South West. I am responsible for ensuring that surveillance information is available in a timely manner and is used to inform the prevention and control of communicable disease at local, regional and national levels.