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Professor Rajan Madhok, chair
Medical Director Manchester PCT |
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Professor Rajan Madhok is the Medical Director of the Manchester Primary Care Trust, Manchester, England, and Clinical Director with Computer Sciences Corporation Alliance, England.
A graduate of Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi, he came to the UK in 1980. After training in orthopaedic surgery he turned to public health and over the last 15 years has held increasingly senior leadership positions in the British NHS and has held or holds academic appointments with Universities of Edinburgh, Hull, Manchester and Teesside. He is an active researcher a founding editor (since Oct 2005, Coordinating Editor) of the Cochrane Bone, Joint and Muscle Trauma Group and has served in editorial capacities for the three main publications of his specialty of public health medicine. His interest in teaching started during his stay at the Mayo Clinic, USA in the early 1990s and since then he has been involved in various ways, most recently in helping to set up the Hull York Medical School and currently as the Director of NorthWest Teaching Public Health Network. He is a founding member of the Peoples-uni. He was made a Companion Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association in 2001, and has served on various national bodies including the General Medical Council, British Medical Association and Faculty of Public Health, and was the 2003 Milroy Lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Dr Selwyn Hodge
Chair, Royal Society of Health |
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Trained as a research organic chemist, Selwyn Hodge has taught and held posts of responsibility in schools, colleges and universities. He has been a schools’ science adviser in local government and Chief Education Adviser and Senior Assistant Director of Education for a local authority. He has inspected schools nationally for OFSTED. He has considerable experience of managing children’s services and has worked to improve joint working between health, education and social services. He has a particular interest in child protection and in promoting personal, health and social education among young people. He has been the Chair of the Greater Manchester Federation of Clubs for Young People for 4 years and is also a trustee of the national body – Clubs for Young People UK. He has been a Council member of the Royal Society of Health, a national charity, for eleven years and is currently the Chair of this organisation. He is also Chair of Oldham Breathe Easy, a support group for people with respiratory problems, and a member of both the regional committee and the national support sub-committee of the British Lung Foundation.
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Alec Tice, Treasurer
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Alec worked as a Board level Director of Human Resources for an Acute hospital trust as well as commissioning and community services organisations from 1989 until 2007. After that he worked as a consultant on a variety of HR projects for a range of NHS organisations including the NHS North West Deanery. As HR Director, Alec was actively involved at national and local level on most of the major changes to HR issues in the NHS including the new Pay System (Agenda for Change), the Consultants Contract and the development of Shared Services. Alec was also actively involved in the development of an active role for the NHS at European level through which it can influence and modify potential EU proposals.
He has worked on a number of restructuring projects, analysing weaknesses, designing and promoting appropriate solutions and practical change.
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Professor Dick Heller
Coordinator, Peoples-uni |
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I am a medical graduate from London University and have worked in the UK, the US and Australia. I retired in 2006 from the post of Professor of Public Health in the University of Manchester, UK. My educational highlights have been the involvement with INCLEN, an organisation originally funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, which involved capacity building in a number of medical schools across the developing world. As part of that I developed a distance learning masters course from the University of Newcastle in Australia. Subsequently I built a fully on-line masters course in Public Health in Manchester. I am the originator of the idea for the Peoples-uni, to help with capacity building in developing countries, using open access resources on the Internet. My research interests have been in the causes and prevention of heart disease, and in developing measures to describe the population impact of disease risks and the benefits of interventions.
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Maggie Davies
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Maggie Davies is Executive Director of Health Action Partnerships International, has worked in the health field for over 25 years and has extensive experience of managing and providing technical assistance and consultancy programmes to countries across the world.
Maggie was most recently the Principal Advisor on International Health Inequalities for the Department of Health for England. This included providing advice, commissioning services, developing policy and taking action on health inequalities within and between countries.
Maggie has managed projects for international organisations such as the World Bank, the European Commission and the World Health Organisation for a number of years. Delivery of projects has been through matrix teams of professionals, academics, civil society representatives, business leaders, policy makers and academics ranging from ministers to facilitators |
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