THURSDAY 13th OCTOBER 2016SPEAKERS AND WORKSHOP LEADERS - BIOGRAPHIES |
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Keynote Speaker |
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Professor John Middleton John Middleton is President of the UK Faculty of Public Health and Honorary Professor of Public Health at Wolverhampton University. He was Director of Public Health for Sandwell for 26 years. His main interests are environmental health and sustainable development, evidence-based social policy, reducing health inequalities and violence prevention.
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Morning plenary |
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Dr Sara Hitchman Sara Hitchman completed her MASc in Applied Psychology, and her PhD in Psychology at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Her research interests include global tobacco control policy, e-cigarettes, and standardised packaging of tobacco products. Prior to coming to King’s, Sara worked with the International Tobacco Control Project, spent time at the University of California San Francisco as a post-doctoral fellow, and worked with the World Heart Federation and the World Health Organization. Sara is a member of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies. Some of her current research projects include the Adult Tobacco Policy Survey, a survey to evaluate standardised packaging in the UK, and the International Tobacco Control Project – longitudinal surveys of smokers and e-cigarette users in multiple countries.
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Afternoon plenary |
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Dr Annette Luker Annette Luker is a medical doctor who undertook speciality training in public health in the UK and is now working as a Consultant in International Public Health in Public Health England (PHE). Annette led the development of the PHE Global Health Strategy published in 2014 and currently leads a new Department for International Development (DFID) funded PHE programme of work in Pakistan. Annette is an active member of the UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH) Global Health Committee and chaired the group responsible for writing the 2015 FPH Global Health Strategy. Prior to joining PHE Annette worked in a variety of UK based settings including the UK Department of Health Global Health team, and she has worked on a number of international/ global health projects, including volunteering for a year with Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) in Tanzania.
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Afternoon plenary |
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Bishop Tim Thornton Tim was made Bishop of Truro in 2008 prior to that he was Bishop of Sherborne for seven years. Tim has been ordained for over 35 years and has served in several dioceses and contexts. He was Principal of the North Thames Ministerial Training Course and served as Chaplain to David Hope when he was Bishop both in Wakefield and London. He is Trustee of a number of organisations e.g. Bishop’s Forum, Transformation Cornwall and Volunteer Cornwall. He has responsibility for leadership programmes for senior clergy across the country and also serves on the Council for Christian Unity. He co-chairs the regular conversations between Anglicans and Roman Catholics in this country. He has been in the House of Lords since 2013 and co-chaired the inquiry that lead to the report Feeding Britain. He is enjoying working in Cornwall. The priorities here are to discover God’s kingdom and grow the church. He is putting his energies into reshaping the church’s structure in order to meet these priorities. He was born in Yorkshire and is married to Sian who is a Senior HMI and they have two grown up children, twin granddaughters and a grandson.
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Pre-Dinner Speaker |
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Jon Usher Jon Usher is Head of Partnerships, England South at Sustrans. He has spent the last decade in sustainable transport working to deliver change at a community level through project delivery. He has been responsible for the delivery of £multi-million active travel infrastructure projects across the West of England sub-region, including the iconic Two Tunnels project in Bath. He has managed behaviour change teams across the south west and now leads Sustrans’ business development, policy and influencing activity across the south of England.
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Deborah Haynes Debbie is currently Consultant in Public Health (Designate) at Wiltshire Council.
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Ardiana Gjini Dr Ardiana Gjini, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Screening and Immunisation Lead, Bath, Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire (BGSW) . Ardiana is Consultant in Public Health Medicine- Screening and Immunisation Lead for BGSW. Prior to this post she was Consultant in Public Health Medicine with lead on cancer and cancer screening programmes for the Avon PCTs (Local Authorities post April 2013) and Long Term Conditions and End of Life Care (EoLC) for Bristol PCT. As the lead for cancer Ardiana was nominated as the Chair of the Drug Policy Forum which produced recommendations on cancer drugs, prior to the formation of the Cancer Drug Fund. She also led the introduction of the HPV triage and test of cure for the Avon programmes including the merge of these services between GWH and RUH. As the lead for EoLC, Ardiana with the newly created Bristol CCG led the development of a pilot service of EoLC for homeless people. Ardiana started as a Consultants in Public Health in Wiltshire PCT in 2009 as a short term locum appointment, leading on evidence and clinical effectiveness, including the JSNA. She undertook her Public Health Speciality Training in the South West with posts in the Regional Public Health Group, South West Public Health Observatory, Bristol PCT and the University of Bristol. During this time she also completed her PhD in Epidemiology and Clinical Management of Meningitis which she started in 2002 as a clinical research post with the University of Bristol and Opened University having had completed an MSc in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has maintained her research interest largely through collaborations with UoB as a Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, participating in research studies and teaching, both under and postgraduate. Before coming to the UK, Ardiana worked for the WHO in Kosovo and Albania leading on development of the disease surveillance systems; her work on surveillance of landmine injuries raised the profile of the problem in Kosovo to the establishment of one of the strongest mine-clearance and awareness programmes amongst the emergency areas. She completed her medical training in ex-Yugoslavia, later Kosovo, where her interest in Public Health practice sparked whilst working with NGOs providing field health services to worn-torn areas during the Balkan wars in the late 90s. Charlotte Matthews Charlotte is a Public Health Specialty Registrar in the South West, currently on placement with Bath & North East Somerset Council. Charlotte previously worked as a public health commissioner and began her career in hospital management including surgical services, A&E and mental health. Filiz Altinoluk-Davies Filiz has worked as a Screening & Immunisation Co-ordinator for PHE/NHS England for just under a year, and is in the final year of part-time study towards a MSc in Public Health at the University of the West of England (UWE). Prior to working in screening and immunisation, Filiz worked as a Graduate Evidence Assistant at South Gloucestershire Council, supporting the Public Health and Wellbeing Team and CCG to promote evidence-based commissioning. The position was developed as a pilot between the Avon Primary Care Research Collaborative (APCRC), Bristol City Council and South Gloucestershire Council. It has led to the roll-out of a number of similar positions across Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. Filiz comes from a local authority background where she has worked within welfare benefits and adult social care teams. Filiz’s first passion was archaeology, and she completed her undergraduate and Masters degrees at the UCL Institute of Archaeology before deciding to hang up her trowel and work to help the living. Lianne Straus Lianne is Screening and Immunisation Manager for PHE/NHS England.
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Leeshia Walton I currently work for Livewell Southwest as a Specialist Health Improvement Practitioner focusing on Early Years. My professional registration is in Midwifery where I have worked for over 10 years both in the community and hospital setting. I manage several projects for The Wellbeing Team which includes BFI (Baby Friendly Initiative) Lead, Oral Health, Healthy Start and in particular Great Expectations Antenatal Programme. My role is to empower pregnant women to make positive lifestyle choices for a healthy pregnancy, birth and lead a healthy lifestyle with their family. Maria Birch Maria has had a career in nursing spanning 30 years . She specialised in Midwifery and Health visiting before working as a Practice nurse. This work motivated her to take up her current post working as Health Improvement Manager in Public Health, addressing health inequalities across the life-course. Her interest in early years provision and passion for infants to have a ‘healthy start in life’ has been a key driver.
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Alison Bell MSc RN FHEA FFPH UKPHR Alison is a nurse by background and through her work as a cardiac nurse developed a passion for public health, that she has developed in both UK and International PH roles. After 10 years working on public health in conflict zones she returned to the South West to undertake her Public Health training. Since qualifying she has held two consultant posts focused on maternal and child health, as well as a brief spell in Indonesia being a not so diplomatic spouse! Alison is the currently the lead for children and young people’s health and wellbeing, some aspects of health care public health (IFRP) and clinical governance and also fulfils the role of Specialty Tutor for Public Health for Somerset. I remain battled scarred by political reorganisations of the health service, but continue to be passionate about giving every child the best start in life and ensuring that only effective health care interventions are funded by ever scarcer NHS resources. In my free time I love the countryside and cycling through Somerset’s beautiful country lanes on my bicycle. Rob Tolfree Rob is a Specialty Registrar in Public Health on the South West Public Health Training Programme
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Karen Spence Karen Spence is a Public Health Specialist at Wiltshire Council with a remit including Mental Health and Wellbeing, Suicide reduction, Dementia and Special Educational Needs & Disability. Karen returned to the Public Health field in 2014 following an extended period in a corporate role; her original sojourn to public health 10 years previously was a secondment to the South West Public Health Observatory (2003-2005) as Regional crime and health Co-ordinator including leading on domestic violence across the region.
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Wendy Smith Wendy Smith is the Strategic Lead for Community Engagement at the Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise. She heads up the award winning Community Engagement Team and has been instrumental in developing the role of community engagement and social awareness within the organisation. The Team are experts in community engagement and social awareness; they deliver a variety of programmes and projects which focus on oral health improvement and positive lifestyle choices. Wendy also enables meaningful and unique learning opportunities for dental and medical students as they undertake Inter Professional Engagement modules as part of their core curriculum. This method and approach is highly valued within Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise and Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and has been recognised at a national level and includes successfully achieving the Guardian University Award 2015, Green Gown Award 2014. Wendy has written and delivers a community engagement unit within the MBA in Healthcare as well as facilitating public and patient involvement focus groups for research projects and initiatives. She has presented posters at several national and international conferences which demonstrate the impact and effectiveness of community based initiatives alongside the delivery of education and learning experiences for students. Building effective partnerships and working collaboratively forms the focus of her approach; with a passion for communities and making a difference at a local level Wendy brings a warmth and humour to the tasks she undertakes!
Karen Burn Karen’s dental career started when she served in the Royal Air Force, where she qualified as a Dental Nurse. After leaving the armed services she settled in Plymouth, where her career went from strength to strength. She has worked alongside dental consultants and specialists in a variety of areas including, implant surgery, endodontics, orthodontics and restorative dentistry. She has experienced working in different dental settings and is qualified in dental radiography. Karen joined the Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise in 2010 as a Lead Nurse; a role she thoroughly enjoyed. She helped to care for patients and also supported dental students as they progressed through their Bachelor of Dental Surgery programme of study. In June 2015 Karen joined the Community Engagement Team, as a Dental Care Professional, this offered a new and exciting challenge. She provides the clinical support to non-clinical colleagues of the team and ensures clinical governance is followed in community based projects and initiatives. Karen also delivers training sessions to promote better oral health to a variety of community based groups. Recent successes include establishing supervised brushing clubs in schools, nurseries and children’s centres as well as delivering a Dental Ambassador training programme to adults with learning disabilities across the Peninsula. Karen feels privileged to work with community partners and looks forward to developing new opportunities which encourage positive dental health improvements.
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Jon Roberts Jon Roberts is a Consultant in Public Health based with North Somerset Council, his interests are in healthcare and the use of evidence and intelligence in Public Health. Prior to specialist training, Jon was a post-doc at the University of Birmingham working on health technology assessments with NICE. Ruth Kipping Ruth Kipping is a Senior Research Fellow and Acting Director of DECIPHer at the University of Bristol. Ruth works on the design and conduct of RCTs in the area of obesity prevention in children, and epidemiological analysis and systematic reviews of multiple risk behaviours in adolescents. Ruth completed a feasibility RCT during her PhD, which progressed to a full-scale trial and is currently PI of an NIHR funded feasibility trial in nurseries to improve diet, oral health and physical activity of 2 to 4 year olds. Ruth has been co-applicant of a number of other feasibility trials. Ruth studied Natural Science at Cambridge University, undertook management training through the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme and then moved into health service research before training in public health in the South West where she completed an MSc in Public Health at LSHTM and a PhD at the University of Bristol. Ruth worked part-time for 4 years as Consultant in Public Health in North Somerset alongside public health research work with DECIPHer. Ruth has an honorary Consultant in Public Health with Public Health England and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health. Paul Scott Paul Scott is a consultant in public health at Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) Council. He works on intelligence, alcohol, drugs and suicide prevention and with wider partners on housing, employment, regeneration and sustainability. Paul teaches a lecture and workshop session on prioritisation as part of Bristol University’s Community Oriented Medical Practice course for undergraduate medical students.
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Rachel Campbell Rachel’s route to her current post was through Health Protection as a Health Protection Specialist Nurse. During this time she was involved in varied aspects of communicable disease control and specifically led on Health Protection in offender health settings across the South West enabling work across a variety of establishments and with a range of multi-agency colleagues. Her current post is focussed on the wider Public Health aspects for individuals in prescribed places of detention and through the gate. This includes communicable disease control, health and wellbeing and healthcare public health. Rachel has most recently collaborated with partner organisations to successfully implement ‘smoke free’ in the early adopter prisons in the South West and is working further with colleagues in PH to focus on the continuity post release. Rachel is currently seconded in a project role supporting National Tobacco colleagues and partner organisations with the roll out of smoke free prisons which includes the phase one Champion Prisons in the South West and South Central. Jo Peden Jo has worked in public health for quite a few years. She started off completing an MSc in Public Health Nutrition at LSHTM, this introduced her to the broader sphere of public health and gave her valuable experiences working at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome. After working in public health nutrition for a couple of years she went back to LSHTM to manage a research project on health informatics and at the same time to complete a Doctorate in Public Health. Her thesis focussed on understanding parental decision making on MMR. After finishing her doctorate she worked in East Surrey and Swindon on physical activity, and with disadvantaged groups. She joined the South West Public Health Training Scheme and this gave her the fantastic opportunity of working in Malaysia for the UNHCR and the Malaysian Ministry of Health on gaining access to immunisation for refugee groups. After a very enjoyable and interesting time as a registrar Jo joined PHE as a Consultant in Health Protection. She then moved to the Regional PHE team to work alongside the regional NHSE team to influence the public health agenda at a regional level. Jo is currently working as a Consultant in Public Health for the PHE National Health and Justice team which helps to advise NHSE and NOMS on the healthcare commissioned in prisons. This is a fascinating area of work which covers all three domains of public health and the whole pathway approach to preventing offending and re-offending . |
FRIDAY 14th OCTOBER 2016SPEAKERS AND WORKSHOP LEADERS - BIOGRAPHIES |
Plenary speakers
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0945 |
Morning plenary
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Dr Jeanelle de Gruchy Dr. Jeanelle de Gruchy has been Director of Public Health for the London Borough of Haringey since 2010. She is Vice-President of the national Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH), leading the programme of policy work for the Association. She is DPH lead on public mental health for London and has supported public health workforce development in London and nationally. She helped establish the London Association of Directors of Public Health in 2012 and was co-chair until 2014. Jeanelle trained and worked as a doctor in South Africa and the UK before specialising in public health in the UK. She was Deputy Director of Public Health in Nottingham before becoming Director of Public Health for Haringey.
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Morning plenary
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Professor Debra Lapthorne Deb is the Centre Director, Public Health England South West. Previously she worked in Public Health for NHS Plymouth and Plymouth City Council, working across the NHS and local government. She was one of the first directors of public health to be appointed in England from a background other than medicine.
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Afternoon plenary
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Marcus Grant Marcus Grant is former Associate Professor and deputy director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments at the University of the West of England (2009 until 2015), where, building on the work of Dahlgren and Whitehead, he helped develop the much used ‘Health Map’. Currently he is a co-director of a Health Integration Team at Bristol Health Partners with the focus on healthy neighbourhood development; Editor-in-Chief of a new Routledge journal, ‘Cities and Health’; and independent advisor to the World Health Organisation on healthy urban development. Recent work for the WHO has involved Marcus in the preparation for UN Habitat III for a New Urban Agenda, and evidence reviews of age-friendly and child-friendly urban environments. Marcus’s background is an urban designer; as such he is chartered member of the Landscape Institute, sitting on their policy committee. Marcus was a member of the National Institute of Health Research’s first Public Health Research scientific board, serving from 2009-2014. Through engaged scholarship he links the human health agenda with eco-system related health services in the urban realm. Marcus is a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health.
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Workshop leaders
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Rosanne Sodzi Rosanne currently is a programme manager in the Health and Wellbeing Team at SW PHE, based in Bristol. She is the SW lead for NHS Healthchecks, as well as the lead for Children and Young People’s Health. As part of that role she chairs the SW NHS Healthcheck Network and has worked on some national work on NHS Healthcheck programme, including the development of a Competency Framework for Healthcare Assistants who deliver Healthchecks in primary care. She has worked for PHE since its inception in April 2013, previously to that she was part of the Dept of Health public health team. She has a Masters in Public Health from Cardiff University. Dan Preece Dan is an Advanced Public Health Practitioner in Health Improvement at Plymouth City Council
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Rachel Kent Rachel Kent is a Public Health Specialist (and Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner) and works for Wiltshire Council with the remit of air quality, fuel poverty, built environment and reducing inequalities in health. She started her career as an EHO in the late 1990’s as a generalist officer working in the areas of food, pollution, housing and licensing. Rachel then took up a position in a dedicated pollution team which lead to her specialising in air quality and permitted processes. In April 2014 she started in her new role as Public Health Specialist where she now runs the Warm & Safe energy advice service and has recently won the NEA Heat Hero award for her work in reducing fuel poverty. Rachel is currently on a project called Safe And Independent Living (SAIL) which is an early prevention intervention, working with the fire service and adult social care. With regards to planning, Rachel, having worked as an EHO has worked with the planning system for many years and has developed supplementary planning guidance for air quality and worked on policies for the Core Strategy. This experience is helping in her role in Public Health to embed health in future planning policies and council strategies. Fionna Vosper Fionna Vosper is a Public Health Specialist and Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner working at South Gloucestershire Council. Fionna began her career in Environmental Health 25 years ago and has worked in general and managerial positions in housing, health and safety, environmental protection and food safety & standards. Twenty years after completing a Master’s degree in Public Health, Fionna moved into a specialist built environment role within the Public Health division at South Gloucestershire. On a day to day basis she works with Planning and Transport colleagues to embed public health principles into policy, run health impact assessment workshops and encourage a joined up approach to cross-cutting issues such as air quality. Fionna also works closely with colleagues within the West of England sub region on joint spatial planning and transport issues linked to devolution.
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Lisa Johnson Lisa Johnson is the Nurse Consultant and Director of Infection Prevention & Control for NHS Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group. With strategic oversight of hospital, community, primary care and care home settings she promotes and relies upon collaborative networks. Lisa has worked within her specialty since 1993 and held posts within acute, community and specialist Trusts as well as six years with the Health Protection Agency leading on TB and resilience. Current catchphrase, “AMR is the new hand hygiene!” Kathryn Wisner I qualified as a pharmacist over 20 years ago after completing my degree at the University of Bath and my pre-registration year at the Royal Free Hospital in London. I've worked in a variety of roles, including both community & hospital pharmacy, Medical Information at Merck, Sharp & Dohme, and within the Education & Training department of the National Pharmacy Association. I've been in my current position as pharmaceutical advisor within the Medicines Optimisation Team at NHS Kernow CCG for three and a half years, during which time I've become the lead for our Antibiotics workstream. I have been a member of the Cornwall Antimicrobial Resistance Group (CARG) since it was formed at the start of 2014. Chaamala Klinger Chaam is a Consultant in Health Protection for Public Health England South West
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Fiona Moir – Health Promotion Manager – Professional Lead for Child Health Fiona Moir comes from a background in teaching, SEND and school improvement. In 2009 she moved from education into Public Health, leading the South-West Healthy Schools Plus Programme in Somerset. Since 2012, Fiona has taken a joint leadership role in coordinating the Somerset Health and Wellbeing in Learning Programme as part of Somerset County Council’s CYP Public Health Team. The team commissions health and wellbeing programmes for schools and educational settings including the Somerset Children and Young People Survey (SCYPS). Among other areas of work, Fiona leads on the National Child Measurement Programme.
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Jon Toulson Jon is an experienced facilitator working internationally on a range of development projects in both the public and private sectors. His wide experiences include working with various Public Health professionals, and teams, across London, Buckinghamshire and the South West of England on a number of initiatives that include project management, behavioural change, transition, leadership and team development. His workshops and programmes are recognised for their energetic presentation and participation from attendees, who regularly report excellent experiences and learning.
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John Coggon John Coggon is Professor of Law at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on the relationships between politics, morality, and health law and policy. He has written on various controversial questions, including end-of-life law, organ donation, and confidentiality, but his primary areas of interest are in public health ethics and law, and mental capacity law. He is author of What Makes Health Public? (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and co-author, with Professor Keith Syrett (Cardiff) and Dr A.M. Viens (Southampton), of Public Health Law (Routledge, 2017). He has published in leading law, ethics, and practitioner journals, and produced chapters for leading edited collections. He is editor-in-chief of Health Care Analysis, and other editorial roles include the position of editorial board member of Public Health Ethics, and co-editorship of five books in health law and ethics. He is on the British Medical Journal’s ethics committee, and in June 2016 was made an Honorary Member of the UK’s Faculty of Public Health.
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Caroline De Brún Caroline De Brún is a Knowledge and Evidence Specialist for Public Health England, where she undertakes literature searching for policy development and systematic reviews. She has been a medical librarian since 1999, and has worked closely with the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, acting as a Librarian Tutor on the annual Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine Workshops. She has also co-written a guide to searching for health professionals, called Searching Skills Toolkit: Finding the Evidence.
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Councillor Andrea Davis Councillor Andrea Davis represents the Combe Martin (North Devon) rural division as a District and County Councillor. She is the lead member for health and wellbeing which includes Devon County Council’s new Public Health responsibilities. She is the chairman of the Devon Health and Wellbeing Board. Having originally trained as a Nurse, her professional background is in environmental health. She is currently the chairman of Exmoor National Park Authority. She is married to a healthcare professional and has three children. Fionna Vosper Fionna Vosper is a Public Health Specialist and Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner working at South Gloucestershire Council. Fionna began her career in Environmental Health 25 years ago and has worked in general and managerial positions in housing, health and safety, environmental protection and food safety & standards. Twenty years after completing a Master’s degree in Public Health, Fionna moved into a specialist built environment role within the Public Health division at South Gloucestershire. On a day to day basis she works with Planning and Transport colleagues to embed public health principles into policy, run health impact assessment workshops and encourage a joined up approach to cross-cutting issues such as air quality. Fionna also works closely with colleagues within the West of England sub region on joint spatial planning and transport issues linked to devolution.
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