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.

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