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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
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, local authority officers, teachers, social care professionals, representatives of the public, 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 Associate Foundation Stage Regional Adviser for the Parents as Partners in Early Learning Project, DfES National Strategies
Professor Michael Bury Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of London. Honorary Professor of Sociology, University of Kent
Dr Sarah Byford Reader in Health Economics, Centre for the Economics of Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
Professor K K Cheng Professor of Epidemiology, University of Birmingham
Ms Joanne Cooke Programme Manager, Collaboration and Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for South Yorkshire
Mr Philip Cutler Forums Support Manager, Bradford Alliance on Community Care
Dr Richard Fordham Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, University of East Anglia; Director, NHS Health Economics Support Programme (HESP)
Ms Lesley Michele de Meza Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) Education Consultant, Trainer and Writer
Professor Ruth Hall Public Health Consultant
Ms Amanda Hoey Director, Consumer Health Consulting Limited
Mr Alasdair J Hogarth Educational Consultant and recently retired Head Teacher
Dr Ann Hoskins Director, Children, Young People and Maternity, 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
CHAIR Professor Catherine Law Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology, UCL Institute of Child Health
Mr David McDaid Research Fellow, Department of Health and Social Care, London School of Economics and Political Science
Mr Bren McInerney Community Member
Dr John Macleod Reader in Clinical Epidemiology and Primary Care, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol; Honorary Clinical Consultant in Primary Care, NHS Bristol; GP, Hartcliffe Health Centre, Bristol
Professor Susan Michie Professor of Health Psychology, BPS Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, University College London
Professor Stephen Morris Professor of Health Economics, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London
Dr Adam Oliver RCUK Senior Academic Fellow, Health Economics and Policy, London School of Economics
Dr Mike Owen General Practitioner, William Budd Health Centre, Bristol
Dr Toby Prevost Reader in Medical Statistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, King's College London
Ms Jane Putsey Lay Member, Registered Tutor, 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
Dr Kamran Siddiqi Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Public Health, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences and NHS Leeds
Dr David Sloan Retired Director of Public Health
Professor Stephanie Taylor Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Health Sciences, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Dr Stephen Walters Reader in Medical Statistics, University of Sheffield
Dr Dagmar Zeuner Director of Public Health, NHS Richmond and London Borough of Richmond
Expert co-optees to PHIAC:
Professor Annie Anderson Professor of Food Choice, Centre for Public Health Nutrition Research, University of Dundee
Ms Amanda Avery Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, Nottingham University and Consultant Dietitian in weight management, Slimming World
Dr Ruth Bell Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University
Professor Debra Bick Professor of Evidence-Based Midwifery Practice, Kings College London
Mr Robert Fraser, Reader in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Department of Reproductive and Developmental Medicine, University of Sheffield.
Dr Gail Goldberg Senior Research Scientist, Medical Research Council, Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge
Janet Gordon Advanced Dietitian for Maternal Health, Birmingham Community Nutrition and Dietetic Department
Professor David Haslam General Practitioner and Chair of the National Obesity Forum
Professor Lucilla Poston Professor of Maternal and Fetal Health, Kings College London
Expert testimony to PHIAC:
Ms Jo Edwards National Childbirth Trust Volunteer, London
NICE project team
Mike Kelly CPHE Director
Tricia Younger Associate Director
Adrienne Cullum Analyst
Caroline Mulvihill Analyst
Susan Murray Analyst
Karen Peploe Analyst
Patti White Analyst
Alastair Fischer Technical Adviser (Health Economics)
Sue Jelley and Rachael Paterson Senior Editors
Alison Lake and Susan Burlace Editors
External contractors
Evidence reviews
Review one: 'Systematic review of dietary and/or physical activity interventions for weight management in pregnancy' was carried out by the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) Public Health Collaborating Centre, University of Sheffield. The principal authors were: Fiona Campbell, Josie Messina, Maxine Johnson, Louise Guillaume, Jason Madan and Elizabeth Goyder.
Review two: 'Systematic review of weight management interventions after childbirth' was carried out by ScHARR Public Health Collaborating Centre, University of Sheffield. The authors were: Josie Messina, Maxine Johnson, Fiona Campbell, Emma Everson Hock, Louise Guillaume, Alejandra Duenas, Andrew Rawdin, Elizabeth Goyder and Jim Chilcot.
Cost effectiveness
Economic analysis one: 'Interventions to manage weight gain in pregnancy' was carried out by ScHARR Public Health Collaborating Centre, University of Sheffield. The principal author was Jason Madan.
Economic analysis two: 'The cost-effectiveness of weight management interventions after childbirth' was carried out by ScHARR Public Health Collaborating Centre, University of Sheffield. The authors were: Alejandra Duenas, Andrew Rawdin, Jim Chilcott, Josie Messina, Maxine Johnson, Fiona Campbell, Emma Everson Hock, Louise Guillaume, Elizabeth Goyder and Nick Payne.
Fieldwork
The fieldwork 'Weight management during pregnancy and after childbirth' was carried out by Rachel Smith, Rachel Evans and Pretti Kathrecha of Greenstreet Berman Ltd.