Guidance
Membership of the Public Health Advisory Committee and the NICE project team
Membership of the Public Health Advisory Committee and the NICE project team
Public Health Advisory Committee A
NICE has set up several Public Health Advisory Committees (PHACs). These standing committees consider the evidence and develop public health guidelines. Membership is multidisciplinary, comprising academics, public health practitioners, topic experts and members of the public. They may come from the NHS, education, social care, environmental health, local government or the voluntary sector. The following are members of PHAC A:
Chair
Susan Jebb
Professor of Diet and Population Health, University of Oxford
Core members
Mireia Jofre Bonet
Professor in Economics, City University London
Alison Lloyd
Community member
Chris Packham
Associate Medical Director, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Toby Prevost
Professor of Medical Statistics, King's College London
Joyce Rothschild
Independent Education Consultant
Amanda Sowden
Deputy Director, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York
Lucy Yardley
Professor of Health Psychology, University of Southampton
Topic members
Peymane Adab
Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham
Louisa Ells
Reader in Public Health and Obesity, Teesside University
Nick Finer
Professor, Consultant Endocrinologist and Bariatric Physician, University College London Hospitals
Laura McGowan
Research Fellow, Institute for Global Food Security, Queen's University, Belfast
Bimpe Oki
Consultant in Public Health, Lambeth and Southwark
Sarah West-Sadler
Community member
Expert co-optees to PHAC
Nick Cavill
Specialist Advisor, Public Health England Obesity Team
NICE project team
Mike Kelly
CPH Director
Kay Nolan
Associate Director
Adrienne Cullum
Lead Analyst
Rachel Kettle
Analyst
Patti White (until July 2014)
Analyst
Lakshmi Murthy (from November 2014)
Analyst
Alastair Fischer
Technical Adviser Health Economics
Victoria Axe (until May 2014)
Project Manager
Rupert Franklin (from June 2014)
Project Manager
Denise Jarrett
Coordinator
Sue Jelley (March 2014)
Senior Editor
Jaimella Espley (May 2014 onwards)
Senior Editor
Susie Burlace
Editor
Declarations of interests
The following members of the Public Health Advisory Committee made declarations of interest. All other members of the Committee stated that they had no interests to declare.
| Committee Member | Interest declared | Type of interest | Decision taken |
|---|---|---|---|
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Peymane Adab |
Grant holder for a study to develop a childhood weight management programme in urban China funded by Guangzhou Public Health Bureau and Centre for Disease Control |
Non‑personal specific financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Peymane Adab |
Principal investigator for Health Technology Assessment Programme (HTA) funded WAVES trial: a cluster randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an obesity prevention intervention in primary school age children |
Non‑personal specific financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Peymane Adab |
Co-investigator for HTA funded study: development of a culturally adapted weight management programme for children of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin |
Non‑personal specific financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Peymane Adab |
Co-investigator for a National Prevention Research Initiative (NPRI) funded trial: randomised control trial to test the effectiveness of a brief intervention for weight management for obese adults in primary care |
Non‑personal specific financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Peymane Adab |
Occasional media (radio, TV, newspaper) related comments on above funded trials (including comments on extent of childhood obesity, why it is a problem, and what the trial is about) |
Personal non‑pecuniary interest |
No further action required |
|
Nick Cavill |
Own company works for multiple clients promoting physical activity and also sells pedometers |
Personal, specific financial interest |
Withdrew from any discussion on pedometers |
|
Louisa Ells |
Employee, The Health and Social Care Institute at Teesside University – Institute has received grants from NICE in the past and would consider tendering for NICE funding should a suitable call arise in the future |
Non‑personal non‑specific financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Louisa Ells |
Specialist Advisor, Public Health England Obesity Knowledge and Intelligence Team |
Personal non‑specific financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Louisa Ells |
Co-applicant on NPRI grant titled 'How can we help parents recognise unhealthy body weight in children' |
Non personal specific financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Nick Finer |
Employee, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust – provider of obesity services |
Personal non-specific financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Nick Finer |
Consultancy (within past 2 years) to pharmaceutical industry on anti-obesity and diabetes medications (Vivus Inc – Qsymia; Novo Nordisk – liraglutide; Arena – Belviq; Janssen Cilag – canaglifozin) |
Personal non‑specific financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Nick Finer |
Speakers fees (within past 2 years) from Novo Nordisk |
Personal non‑specific financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Nick Finer |
Shareholder, Counterweight plc (current value £0) |
Personal non‑specific financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Nick Finer |
Symposium organiser and speaker at numerous national and international meetings supported by sponsors from commercial sector |
Personal non‑specific non‑financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Nick Finer |
Chair, International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO) Education and Management Task Force |
Personal, specific, non‑financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Nick Finer |
Chair, Experts in Severe and Complex Obesity (registered charity) |
Personal, specific, non‑financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Nick Finer |
Medical Adviser, Weight Concern (registered charity) |
Personal, specific, non‑financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Nick Finer |
Medical Adviser, Prader-Willi Syndrome Association UK (Registered charity) |
Personal, specific, non‑financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Susan Jebb |
Salary from Medical Research Council (ended September 2013) |
Personal non‑specific pecuniary interest |
No further action required |
|
Susan Jebb |
Member of Tanita Ltd Medical Advisory Board |
Personal non‑specific pecuniary interest |
Susan stepped down as chair during discussion of draft recommendations on monitoring weight gain |
|
Susan Jebb |
Writing and lecture fees from Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness magazine (ended December 2013) |
Personal non‑specific pecuniary interest |
No further action required |
|
Susan Jebb |
Supervision fees from University of Cambridge (ended summer 2013) |
Personal non‑specific pecuniary interest |
No further action required |
|
Susan Jebb |
Science Adviser on Obesity, Department of Health (ended April 2013) |
Non‑personal pecuniary interest |
No further action required |
|
Susan Jebb |
Chair, Public Health Responsibility Deal Food Network |
Personal non‑pecuniary interest |
No further action required |
|
Susan Jebb |
Trustee, Association for the Study of Obesity (ended September 2013) |
Personal non‑pecuniary interest |
No further action required |
|
Susan Jebb |
Member, European and International Associations for the Study of Obesity |
Personal non‑pecuniary interest |
No further action required |
|
Susan Jebb |
Member, UK Health Forum |
Personal non‑pecuniary interest |
No further action required |
|
Mireia Jofre Bonet |
None |
N/A |
No further action required |
|
Alison Lloyd |
Trustee, Manchester Action on Street Health |
Personal, non‑specific, non‑financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Laura McGowan |
Received a one‑off honorarium from Merck Serono for presenting weight‑related research at a nurse educational meeting (February 2014) |
Personal, non‑specific financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Laura McGowan |
Employee, Weight Concern (registered charity) (until April 2014) |
Personal, non‑specific, financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Laura McGowan |
Consultancy work for Weight Concern (registered charity) |
Personal, non‑specific, financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Laura McGowan |
Consultant, Weight Concern –charity, could benefit financially as a consequence of the commissioning of weight-management services |
Non‑personal, specific financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Laura McGowan |
Employee, Queen's University, Belfast – university receives funding from Safe-Food |
Non‑personal, non‑specific, financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Laura McGowan |
Regularly involved in publishing articles on obesity and contributing to media enquiries on the subject of weight and eating habits broadly, in relation to the work of Weight Concern and the Health Behaviour Research Centre at University College London |
Personal, specific, non‑financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Bimpe Oki |
None |
N/A |
No further action required |
|
Chris Packham |
Practicing GP Associate, St Lukes Surgery, Nottingham |
Personal, non‑specific, non‑financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Chris Packham |
GP and Section 12 MHA approved doctor, Nottingham Emergency Medical Services |
Personal, non‑specific, non‑financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Chris Packham |
Associate Medical Director and Consultant Public Health Physician, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust |
Personal, non‑specific, non‑financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Chris Packham |
UK Chair of Examiners (final professional examination), Faculty of Public Health, Royal College of Physicians. |
Personal, non‑specific, non‑financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Chris Packham |
Honorary Professor of Public Health Practice, Faculty of Medicine, University of Nottingham |
Personal, non‑specific, non‑financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Chris Packham |
Partner is the Named Nurse for Child Safeguarding, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham |
Personal, non‑specific, non‑financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Chris Packham |
Clinical Commissioning Champion, Centre for Commissioning, Royal College of General Practitioners |
Personal, non‑specific, non‑financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Toby Prevost |
Wife owned shares in AstraZeneca (until March 2014) |
Personal, non‑specific, financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Toby Prevost |
Co-investigator on health research grants, principally from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) |
Non‑personal, non‑specific financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Joyce Rothschild |
Husband is a governor at the Heart of England Foundation Trust |
Personal, non‑specific, non‑financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Sarah West-Sadler |
Employee, Consensus Action on Salt and Health (August 2013 to March 2014) providing data for their 'food switch' app |
Non‑personal, specific financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Sarah West-Sadler |
MSc student in Nutritional Therapy at Worcester. Sees clients as part of her assessments. No funding received for this. Part of the assessment includes providing advice on weight management |
Personal, specific, non‑financial interest |
No further action required |
|
Amanda Sowden |
None |
N/A |
No further action required |
|
Lucy Yardley |
Co-investigator on proposal submitted to the HTA for trial of an exercise referral scheme |
Non‑personal, specific, financial interest |
No further action required |