Professor Mark Petticrew

Professor of Public Health Evaluation, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Mark Petticrew is Professor of Public Health Evaluation in the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He is Director of the Public Health Research Consortium (PHRC http://phrc.lshtm.ac.uk/), an independent health policy research unit funded through the DHSC Policy Research Programme. He is also a member of the Policy Innovation Research Unit (PIRU: http://www.piru.ac.uk/). Recent research includes the evaluation of the Public Health Responsibility Deal. This policy, launched in 2012, involved voluntary agreements between government and the alcohol and food industries, among others. Details of the published papers appear here: http://www.piru.ac.uk/projects/current-projects/public-health-responsibility-deal-evaluation.html He is also Co-Director with Prof. Karen Lock of the NIHR School for Public Health Research at LSHTM (see http://sphr.lshtm.ac.uk/).
His main research interests are in evidence-based policymaking, and the evaluation of the effects on health of social and other policies. His work also has a focus on the commercial determinants of health – in particular, the influence of unhealthy commodity industries on health (e.g. through the promotion of tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy foods).

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Professor Peter Vickerman

Professor of Infectious Disease Modelling, University of Bristol 

Peter Vickerman is a Professor in infectious disease modelling at the University of Bristol. He has 25 years’ experience in infectious disease modelling. His research focuses on the use of mathematical modelling to help understand the transmission of different infectious diseases and impact and cost-effectiveness of prevention measures. Specific expertise focuses on the transmission of HIV, HCV and other STIs amongst different high-risk groups including female sex workers, men who have sex with men and injecting drug users. He has extensive experience of conducting collaborative research with organisations in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe and the UK. He has contributed to numerous international advisory groups (including WHO, U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. National Institute of Health, NICE Public Health guidance committees and Public Health England).

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Dr Paul Pilkington

Senior Lecturer in Public Health University of West of England

Dr Paul Pilkington is a registered Public Health Specialist and Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. As Theme Lead for UWE’s Centre for Public Health and Wellbeing Healthy and Sustainable Environments research theme, he advances research across the university in this area, bringing together researchers from public health with those across the university and beyond. Paul is also a key member of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments, based at UWE. Paul has undertaken a wide range of research projects with impact in the field of healthy and sustainable environments, with funders including Wellcome Trust, NICE, NIHR, and Public Health England. His knowledge exchange activities include partnerships with Wiltshire County Council, Bristol City Council, and the National Roads Policing Intelligence Forum, with a particular focus on road danger reduction. He has published widely in international peer reviewed journals and presented at numerous regional, national and international conferences.


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Professor Martin White

MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge

Martin White is Director of Research at the Centre for Diet and Activity Research in the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge, where he leads a programme of research on food systems and public health. Martin moved to Cambridge in 2014 from Newcastle University, where he was

Professor of Public Health and Director of Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health at Newcastle University, one of the five UKCRC Public Health Research Centres of Excellence. He is also Director of NIHR’s Public Health Research Programme (2014-20).
Martin trained in Medicine at Birmingham University, from which he was also awarded his MD. He undertook specialist training in public health in the north east of England, gaining his MSc from Newcastle University, and Membership and Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health. From 2012-14, Martin was President of the UK Society for Social Medicine and from 2017-18 President of the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine. He has been a member of the NIHR School for Public Health Research since 2012 and since 2005 a co-investigator in the Department of Health’s Public Health Research Consortium, now the NIHR Policy Research Unit for Public Health. He is an NIHR Senior Investigator.