Guidance
Appendix A: Membership of the Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee (PHIAC), the NICE project team and external contractors
Appendix A: Membership of the Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee (PHIAC), the NICE project team and external contractors
Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee (PHIAC)
NICE has set up a standing committee, the Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee (PHIAC), which reviews the evidence and develops recommendations on public health interventions. Membership of PHIAC is multidisciplinary, comprising public health practitioners, clinicians (both specialists and generalists), local authority employees, representatives of the public, patients and carers, academics and technical experts as follows.
Professor Sue Atkinson CBE Independent Consultant and Visiting Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London
Mr John F Barker Children's and Adults' Services Senior Associate, North West Midlands Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership
Professor Michael Bury Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of London. Honorary Professor of Sociology, University of Kent
Professor Simon Capewell Chair of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Liverpool
Professor K K Cheng Professor of Epidemiology, University of Birmingham
Ms Jo Cooke Director, Trent Research and Development Support Unit, School for Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield
Dr Richard Cookson Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York
Mr Philip Cutler Forums Support Manager, Bradford Alliance on Community Care
Professor Brian Ferguson Director, Yorkshire and Humber Public Health Observatory
Professor Ruth Hall Regional Director, Health Protection Agency, South West
Ms Amanda Hoey Director, Consumer Health Consulting Limited
Mr Alasdair J Hogarth Head Teacher, Archbishops School, Canterbury
Mr Andrew Hopkin Assistant Director, Local Environment, Derby City Council
Dr Ann Hoskins Deputy Regional Director of Public Health/Medical Director, NHS North West
Ms Muriel James Secretary, Northampton Healthy Communities Collaborative and the King Edward Road Surgery Patient Participation Group
Dr Matt Kearney General Practitioner, Castlefields, Runcorn. GP Public Health Practitioner, Knowsley PCT
Ms Valerie King Designated Nurse for Looked After Children, Northampton PCT, Daventry and South Northants PCT and Northampton General Hospital. Public Health Skills Development Nurse, Northampton PCT
CHAIR Professor Catherine Law Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology, UCL Institute of Child Health
Ms Sharon McAteer Public Health Development Manager, Halton and St Helens PCT
Mr David McDaid Research Fellow, Department of Health and Social Care, London School of Economics and Political Science
Professor Klim McPherson Visiting Professor of Public Health Epidemiology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford
Professor Susan Michie Professor of Health Psychology, BPS Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, University College London
Dr Mike Owen General Practitioner, William Budd Health Centre, Bristol
Ms Jane Putsey Lay Representative. Tutor and Registered Breastfeeding Supporter, The Breastfeeding Network
Dr Mike Rayner Director, British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford
Mr Dale Robinson Chief Environmental Health Officer, South Cambridgeshire District Council
Ms Joyce Rothschild Children's Services Improvement Adviser, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
Dr Tracey Sach Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, University of East Anglia
Professor Mark Sculpher Professor of Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics (CHE), University of York
Dr David Sloan Retired Director of Public Health
Dr Dagmar Zeuner Joint Director of Public Health, Hammersmith and Fulham PCT
NICE project team
Mike Kelly
CPHE Director
Antony Morgan
Associate Director
Lesley Owen
Lead Analyst
James Jagroo
Analyst
Dylan Jones
Analyst
Catherine Swann
Analyst
Alastair Fischer
Technical Adviser (Health Economics)
External contractors
External reviewers: reviews of effectiveness
Review 1: 'The effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions to reduce the rates of premature death in disadvantaged areas through proactive case finding, retention and access to services' was carried out by the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath. The principal authors were: Linda Bauld, Lucy Hackshaw, Ann McNeill, Rachael Murray.
Review 2: 'The use of statins: proactive case finding, retention and improving access to services in disadvantaged areas' was carried out by the College of Medicine, University of Wales. The principal authors were: Hilary Kitcher, Mala Mann, Fiona Morgan, Helen Morgan, Lesley Sander, Ruth Turley, Alison Weightman.
External reviewers: mapping review
Mapping review: 'Guidance for the NHS and other sectors on interventions that reduce the rates of premature death in disadvantaged areas: proactive case finding and retention and improving access to services' was carried out by the School for Health, Durham University. The principal authors were: Jean Brown, David J Hunter, Helen Jennings-Peel, Linda Marks.
External reviewer: economic appraisal
Economic appraisal: 'Rapid review of economic evidence of interventions to reduce the rate of premature death in the most disadvantaged populations'; 'Economic analysis of interventions to improve the use of statins interventions in the general population'; 'Economic analysis of interventions to improve the use of statins in disadvantaged populations'; 'Economic analysis of interventions to improve the use of smoking cessation interventions in the general population'; 'Economic analysis of interventions to improve the use of smoking cessation interventions in disadvantaged populations'; 'Supplementary economic analysis on interventions to reduce health inequalities'. The economic appraisal was carried out by Matrix Consulting.
Fieldwork
Fieldwork report: 'Reducing the rate of premature deaths from CVD and other smoking-related diseases: finding and supporting those most at risk and improving access to services' was carried out by Dr Foster Intelligence.