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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 (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/or 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 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
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
Professor David R Jones Professor of Medical Statistics, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester
Dr Matt Kearney General Practitioner, Castlefields, Runcorn. GP Public Health Practitioner, Knowsley
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, University College London 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 & Effectiveness, University College London
Dr Mike Owen General Practitioner, William Budd Health Centre, Bristol
Ms Jane Putsey Lay Representative. Chair of Trustees of 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 School Improvement Adviser, Solihull Local Authority
Dr Tracey Sach Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, University of East Anglia
Professor Mark Sculpher Professor of Health Economics, Centre for 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
Expert cooptees:
Ms Karen Batesman Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Worker for Primary Care, Birmingham
Mrs Anne Devrell Head Teacher, Langley Primary School, Solihull
Ms Sue Mackay Health Promotion Specialist, Kent Health Promotion Service
Ms Marilyn Phipps Head Teacher, Damson Wood Infant School, Solihull
Mr Peter Scott Blackmann Chief Executive Officer, The Afiya Trust
NICE Project Team
Mike Kelly
CPHE Director
Antony Morgan
Associate Director
Amanda Killoran
Lead Analyst
James Jagroo
Analyst
Dylan Jones
Analyst
Catherine Swann
Analyst
Nichole Taske
Analyst
Bhash Naidoo
Technical Adviser (Health Economics).
External contractors
External reviewers: effectiveness reviews
Review 1: 'Systematic review of the effectiveness of interventions to promote mental wellbeing in children in primary education. Report 1: universal approaches (non-violence related outcomes)' was carried out by the Health Sciences Research Institute (HSRI), Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick. The principal authors were: Yaser Adi, Amanda Killoran, Kulsum Janmohamed, Sarah Stewart-Brown.
Review 2: 'Mental wellbeing of children in primary education (targeted/indicated activities)' was carried out by the University of Teesside (a NICE national collaborating centre). The principal authors were: Susan Jones, Janet Shucksmith, Carolyn Summerbell, Vicki Whittaker.
Review 3: 'Systematic review of the effectiveness of interventions to promote mental wellbeing in primary schools: universal approaches with a focus on prevention of violence and bullying' was carried out by the Health Sciences Research Institute (HSRI), Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick. The principal authors were: Yaser Adi, Amanda Killoran, Anita Schrader McMillan, Sarah Stewart-Brown.
External reviewers: economic appraisal
The economic review 'A systematic review of cost-effectiveness analyses of whole school and focused primary school-based interventions to promote children's mental health' was carried out by the Academic Unit of Health Economics (AUHE), Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds. The principal author was Christopher McCabe.
The economic analyses 'Estimating the short-term cost effectiveness of a mental health promotion intervention in primary schools' and 'Cost effectiveness of mental health promotion in schools – focused interventions supplementary analysis' were carried out by the AUHE, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds. The principal author was Christopher McCabe.