The 11th International Conference on Urban Health, Manchester, United Kingdom, March 4-7th 2014
Conference Venue
The 11th International Conference on Urban Health, Manchester, United Kingdom, March 4-7th 2014
Conference Venue
Chair of the International Conference on Urban Health
ICUH Programme Manager
Operations Director
Manchester City Council & Former Director of Tobacco Free at Manchester
General Practitioner
Research and Development Coordinator MAHSC
Professor of International Emergency Medicine
Professor of Midwifery
Research Officer
Business Tourism & Marketing Executive
Senior Accountant Manager
Senior Lecturer in International Development
Professor of Medical Sociology
University of Manchester
Senior Lecturer in Occupational and Environmental Health
Director of National Drug Evidence Centre
Co-Director of the Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research
Co-Director of the Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research
Health Informatics Development Programme Manager
Professor of Human Geography
University of Manchester
Principal of Economic Modelling and Cost Benefit Analysis
ICUH Communications Officer
Councillor
ICUH Cultural and Community Coordinator
ICUH Digital Marketing and Social Media Specialist
Professor of Health Policy and Management
Institute Manager for MICRA
Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Arpana Verma is the lead for the International Conference on Urban Health 2014. Her close association with the International Society for Urban Health has led to Manchester hosting the International Conference on Urban Health in 2014. As a result of this she will be installed on the ISUH board and will become the president.
Dr Arpana Verma is principle investigator (PI) of the European Urban Health Indicator System project (EURO-URHIS 2) funded by DG Research under the FP7 programme (http://www.urhis.eu). Dr Verma is president of the European Public Health Association section on Urban Health. She is PI on a number of health service research project primarily in hepatitis C and blood borne virus prevention, infection control, immunisation including MMR and HPV vaccine. Many of these projects involve data linkage of health indicators, risk factors and the wider determinants of health to help understand the urban challenges to health both within the UK and globally.
Dr Verma is also the lead for public health on the undergraduate programme at the University of Manchester and teaches on a number of other masters and bachelor degrees. She also runs training events for public health professionals.
Dr Verma holds an honorary consultant post at NHS Bury where she is public health lead for cancer services, sexual health and other diseases.
Greg Williams works on the organisational, promotional, technical and administrative side of the public health projects within the Manchester Urban Collaboration on Health. He had a key role in data collection for EURO-URHIS 2 for which he has a paper in press. He has also worked on the launch of the Manchester University Prevention and Screening programme, the Festival of Public Health, Public Health Grand Rounds and teaching and training events, as well as leading the successful proposal for the International Conference on Urban Health 2014. He is currently working on the organisation of ICUH 2014 with the formation of the Local Organisation Committee, and the development of strategic sponsorship opportunities, and relevant local networks. He also supports the administration of the undergraduate curriculum review and the development of new teaching materials for public health. He has previously worked on grant proposals from the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme, the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust, as well as research and analysis for the department’s World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre bid.
Shahina is currently the Operations Director to the Vice Dean and Head of the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences at the University of Manchester. She is also the Lead for the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC) Conferences Series and is working in partnership with the New York Academy of Medicine and Manchester Urban Collaboration on Health for the International Conference on Urban Health.
Shahina Mohamed developed a strong background in managerial primary care in London from 1986-1997 which not only focused her research interests in women’s health but presented her with opportunities to use her extensive abilities in a university environment and adopt the position of both Project Manager and Coordinator for the Uganda Women’s Health Initiative in March 2005.
Having similar research interests, Shahina accepted the Project Management role at the University College London in 2006 and supported Professor Ian Jacobs with his extensive gynaecological and ovarian cancer research in both London and Manchester.
Pat Karney is a graduate of the London School of Economics where he studied economics and politics. He has spent most of his professional career working in local government and the NHS specialising in community regeneration in local governments and tobacco free policies in the NHS. He is passionate about assertive public health policies and believes that the alcohol and food industries have too much unregulated access to local populations, particularly young people.
Richard Fitton’s presentation will cover the past, present and future data protection data legislation in the United Kingdom and Europe. In particular, the increasing role of the data subject and the European Declaration on Human Rights will be addressed.
“Dr Richard Fitton is a General Practitioner working for Tameside and Glossop PCT as salaried assistant and salaried assistant at Manor House Surgery, Glossop. In 1968 he assisted Tim De Dombal, a pioneer in medical IT at the Leeds University Department of Surgery, to write Algol programmes.
Trained at Guy's Hospital in the early seventies, Dr Fitton experienced the use of Lawrence Weed's Problem Oriented Record as the basis for the patient medical record.
Richard has been a member of the National Care Record Development Board, the DoH Working Group on Copying Letters to Patients and the Bethesda, USA, roundtable conference on Electronic Health Records. He was a member of The Wellcome Trust consensus working group on the use of data for research.
Past work saw Richard acting as a scientific advisor to the International Council of Compunetics and he is a member of the International Society of Urban Health. He has presented on the topic of record access to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Family of International Classification and has has advised on the WHO’s position on the ethics of record access.
RF presented his work to the International Council of Urban Health in Nairobi in October 2009 and again to the ICUH at the New York Academy of Medicine in October 2010.
Richard wrote the first guidance for clinicians for patients to access their own medical records with Dr Brian Fisher and Dr Amir Hannan which has been quality assured by the Royal College of General Practitioners and is being instantiated into the NHS culture.
Roy was recruited to the University in 2012 to work on the MAHSC global health initiative. He is supporting the development and delivery of the global health strategy and the coordination of associated research funding applications and implementation of successful projects.
Roy has more than 15 years experience in supporting research and development in health and education related settings. Prior to joining the University he worked for the consultancy arm of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in new business development and programme delivery, managing proposal development and consultancy contracts for a range of international donor agencies and clients. Previously he was responsible for managing the training and project work undertaken by an international health consultancy organisation providing health promotion interventions in the areas of drug use and sexual health. For a number of years Roy was the manager of the International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm when it was held in France, Brazil, India, Switzerland and the UK. He also managed a portfolio of public health related conferences throughout Europe along with the academic conference of the 2002 Commonwealth Games held in Manchester.
Tony has led medical teams to sudden onset disasters, complex emergencies and conflicts for over twenty five years. He recently led medical teams to the earthquakes in china in 2008 and Haiti in 2010. He is Director of the UK international Emergency trauma register which aims to improve training and accountability of those who respond to large scale emergencies overseas. He is academic lead for global health education at Manchester medical school.
Dame Tina Lavender is Professor of Midwifery at the University of Manchester. She also holds an honorary contract at St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester. She leads a programme of research, Midwifery and Women's Health; her main research focus being the management of prolonged labour and partogram use. Dame Tina has published extensively in this field. She is Co-editor in Chief of the British Journal of Midwifery, Associate Editor of the African Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, Editor of the Pregnancy and Childbirth Group of the Cochrane Collaboration and on the editorial team of the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Dame Tina is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Midwives and European Academy of Nurse Science. She is also the faculty Academic lead for fundraising (Global Health theme). Dame Tina also acts as a regular Advisor to the World Health Organization, particularly in relation to guideline development.
Barbara is a Senior Researcher for Public Health for Manchester. This team transferred over from the NHS to the City Council in line with the requirements of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act.
Public Health Manchester deliver a broad range of work programmes relating to the three domains of public health: health improvement, health protection and health care public health.
Her role involves providing advice, designing and commissioning research / evaluation as well as promoting Best Practice.
Prior to this she worked in Manchester Joint Health Unit. The Unit led the way in tackling health inequalities and addressing the wider determinants of health in Manchester. Before this she worked as a researcher for Manchester Health Authority and North West Regional Surveys Unit. Her recent work has focussed around falls prevention, food in residential care and the evaluation of local wellbeing programmes. Barbara is a Social Science graduate and completed her Masters in Socio-Legal studies in 1991.
Debbie works in the conference team at Visit Manchester, the convention bureau for the Manchester city region. Her role is to promote Manchester as a destination for international meetings and to support local organising committees in the delivery of successful conferences.
Visit Manchester’s conference team provides a number of support services such as accommodation booking, venue liaison, pre-event marketing support and advice on Manchester’s civic funding scheme.
Visit Manchester is a division of Marketing Manchester, the agency charged with promoting Manchester on a national and international stage.
Lisa is the Senior Account Manager at Manchester Central Convention Complex, managing the National and International Association events market. She works closely with association members looking to bid for, and host international congresses.
Manchester Central is an award-winning, globally renowned venue in the heart of one of the world’s most vibrant cities. Our unique business resort combines iconic architecture with state-of-the-art facilities to provide a dynamic venue for the world’s leading conferences, exhibitions and events.
Lisa works closely with Visit Manchester and other City stakeholders as part of her role focussing on driving the venue’s economic impact forward.
Tanja R. Müller received an MA in Linguistics and Philosophy (1991) at the Freie Universität Berlin, an MA in Development Studies at University College Dublin (1994), and a PhD in Development Studies (2003) at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
She has worked as a university lecturer in Dublin (1991-1993) and Asmara (2000-2001), as an education consultant in Japan (1997-1999), and as a journalist on development-related issues (1994-2000). She was assistant professor at Wageningen University from 2003-2005 with the programme African Women Leaders in Agriculture and the Environment (AWLAE), where she worked on the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic for rural development in sub-Saharan Africa.
She joined the Institute for Development Policy & Management (IDPM) at the University of Manchester in 2006, where she is a Senior Lecturer in International Development. She is also a founding member and Director of Research of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester.
Tarani is a Professor of Medical Sociology. He joined the University of Manchester in April 2010, and in January 2012 took over as head of the Disciplinary Area of Social Statistics. He is the co-director of methods@manchester and the meetings secretary of the Social Statistics committee of the Royal Statistical Society. Tarani's research is primarily on the social determinants of health, focusing on health inequalities and psychosocial factors, and the analysis of longitudinal cohort studies. Much of his research is on stress at work and its effects on health. His current research projects include the MRC funded FRAILL study (Frailty, Resilience And Inequality in Later Life http://www.ihs.manchester.ac.uk/MICRA/fRaill/), the ESRC funded International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health (ICLS http://www.ucl.ac.uk/icls) and a work stress intervention study funded by the NIHR (http://www.gemstudy.net/).
Raymond Agius is Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Director of the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Manchester School of Medicine. He is also an honorary consultant in the Central Manchester and Manchester Children's Hospitals NHS Trust and at South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust. His previous appointments have included being Senior Lecturer in Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Edinburgh and before that Director of Medical Services at the Institute of Occupational Medicine.
His research interests have ranged widely from occupational to environmental ill health including respiratory and cardiovascular disease, stress and back pain, and audit and quality in the delivery of occupational health services. He has particular research interests in the incidence of occupational disease and work related ill health, in air pollution epidemiology and in methods of predicting new hazards - with a view to appropriate preventive measures. He has a special interest in education in occupational medicine especially utilising the internet and other innovative approaches. His book 'Practical Occupational Medicine' is now in its second edition.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of London and an Honorary a Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He serves or has served on several national and international committees, governmental and non-governmental bodies, and is a past president of the British Occupational Hygiene Society.
He has lectured widely and his 'eponymous' lectures or orations include the Donald Hunter lecture (Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Royal College of Physicians of London), the Smiley lecture (Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland), the Ferguson Glass oration (Australasian Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians) and the Heijermans lecture (University of Amsterdam).
Dr Frank de Vocht is a senior lecturer in occupational and environmental health at the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health (Institute for Population Health) at the University of Manchester, with a special interest in the measurement, assessment and statistical modelling of exposure to chemicals and physical factors for epidemiology. His work to date includes the investigation of adverse effects from magnetic fields generated by MRI, potential health effects of electromagnetic fields, assessment of carcinogenic risk in the rubber manufacturing industry and asphalt paving industry, latex allergy, health risk of exposure to pesticides, assessment of environmental exposure to (ultrafine) particulate matter, and (Bayesian) methodology for epidemiological exposure assessment.
Michael Donmall is Reader in Health Sciences and Director of the National Drug Evidence Centre (NDEC), Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester. NDEC has specialised in epidemiological surveillance of drug and alcohol misuse for the last 25 years, and is the academic host for the National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Monitoring System. NDEC carries out epidemiological, evaluative and policy related research. The Institute of Population Health (IPH), of which NDEC is part, has over 300 staff working in areas of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Health Economics, Informatics, Imaging and Primary Care. Donmall is an indicator expert for the EU with experience on information systems design for policy, as well as expertise in the research evaluation of treatment interventions and the development of outcome and effectiveness measures. Recent large scale research projects include DTORS - the national Drug Treatment Outcomes Research Project and currently Epidemiological Surveillance of Drug and Alcohol Treatment for PHE and Evaluation of the Drugs and Alcohol Recovery PbR Pilots Programme. He spent 15 years as UK Expert at the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction, and is a former member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and advisor at the United Nations.
Bill Ollier is Professor of Immunogenetics at The University of Manchester and co Director of The Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research within the Research Centre for Epidemiology. He has also been Director of Research and Development for the last three years for Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust teaching hospital and NHS Salford Primary Care Trust. His main areas of research interest include the underlying genetic and environmental aetiology of autoimmune and inflammatory conditions, comparative disease genomics, population health and longitudinal health studies around which he has published extensively. He is a Board Member of UK Biobank. He is currently helping develop the City of Salford (population 243,000) as being an international location for conducting real-world clinical trials and large scale epidemiological and public health studies by capitalising on existing electronic health records integrated between primary and secondary health care.
Martin Yuille is Reader and Joint Director of the Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research in the Institute of Population Health at the University of Manchester - Manchester Academic Health Science Centre. He is Honorary Principal Scientist at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.
He has worked on research infrastructure in general and biobanking in particular since 2000. He led the MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre’s work on the UK DNA Banking Network. He has been the Associate Coordinator of the European biobanking network project – Biobanking and BioMolecular Resources Infrastructure. He has developed infrastructure for biobanking in a number of UK and EU translational research projects. He has contributed expertise to emerging biobanking infrastructures in other EU Member States and internationally in the US, the Middle East and Far East.
Current infrastructure projects include two funded by the UK’s Technology Strategy Board (TSB) which supports public-private research preparatory to innovation. The two TSB projects are: STRATUM which has been preparing a national biobanking roadmap; and ACROPOLIS which is constructing a cross-institutional research collaboration platform. He is PI at the University of Manchester in FP7 REQUITE, IMI U-biopred and IMI EMTRAIN.
He received his education in biochemistry as an Open Scholar at University College, Oxford and his doctorate in the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Edinburgh as an MRC Scholar. His post-doctoral experience was at universities including Stanford and Cambridge. He has a research interest in haematological oncology and genetics.
Bruce Elliott is a Programme Manager in Developing Informatics Skills and Capabilities team in the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s Clinical and Public Assurance Directorate. He is currently working on developing the skills of staff working in ICT and Information roles in Health and Social Care to be able to address Health Inequalities through improving the design of and accessibility to websites and information systems for patients and service users.
Bruce is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and has worked across the NHS in Education and Training, Organisational Development and Workforce Planning roles for over 19 years, prior to that working in HR in retail, financial services and local government. His passion is in Patient and Service User Involvement across Health and Social Care.
Kevin Ward is Professor of Human Geography and Director of cities@manchester. (www.cities.manchester.ac.uk). He current research programme - Transatlantic Travels - involves exploring a number of models for financing urban infrastructure and the work and locations involved in rendering them mobile.
Diana Mitlin directs the Global Urban Research Centre at the University of Manchester (www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/gurc) and also holds an appointment at the International Institute for Environment and Development (www.iied.org). Her work focuses on urban poverty and inequality including urban poverty reduction programmes and the contribution of collective action by low-income and otherwise disadvantaged groups. She has recently co-authored two volumes (with David Satterthwaite): Urban Poverty in the Global South: Scale and Nature and Reducing Urban Poverty in the Global South.
Julian Cox is Head of Economic Modelling and Cost Benefit Analysis at New Economy.
New Economy works on behalf of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and the 10 GM Local Authorities to provide research, strategy development, project management and evaluation, focussed on creating economic growth and prosperity for Greater Manchester.
Julian is responsible for the development and implementation of economic modelling and cost benefit analysis methodologies and tools to enable prioritisation of investment and policy decisions across Greater Manchester. Julian’s current areas of work include: producing an Integrated Greater Manchester Assessment of the broad and interlinked evidence base in order to set out the conurbation’s needs related to health, economy, housing, crime, environment and transport and support policy making; producing economic impact assessments of major capital projects; developing analysis techniques for the evaluation of new cross agency ways of working; and constructing tools to support the implementation of Community Budgets and associated investment models in GM. Prior to joining New Economy, Julian worked in the water industry for 15 years, with various roles in asset management, investment planning, and policy and strategy development.
Gary Clough was initially introduced to public health as a result of his wider reading whilst studying for a degree in Human Biology and Infectious Diseases, during which he took the opportunity to complete an internship in a university public health unit. Public Health became a key focus thereafter, orientating his thinking into targeting preventative care, as opposed to his initial goal of supporting primary care. When Gary joined the Manchester Urban Collaboration on Health department he was able to continue his research interests, and has contributed to several European urban health projects including EURO-URHIS 2, where he had particular responsibility for the youth survey. He has led on a number of Greater Manchester health evaluations, particularly focusing on Hepatitis C and immunisation. He is currently working on an evaluation of cancer services in the Greater Manchester area in partnership with Macmillan and Christie Foundation Trust.
Jane is a local councillor in Bury in NW England. Elected in May 2012, she is one of 36 Labour councillors, and is a health spokesperson. She also works part-time in the Faculty of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Before becoming a councillor, Jane worked as a local government senior manager in three Greater Manchester authorities, and in the voluntary sector. She has managed children and young peoples’ services, community regeneration programmes and adult education and training in inner-city communities.
Jane’s health experience includes managing community-based health projects and programmes in an area-based regeneration team in Wythenshawe, Manchester. These included a new Healthy Living Centre and Health Action Zone funded activity. She has developed strategy, policy and joint working with public health and with universities, including supporting dialogue between academics and practitioners on health and regeneration.
Jane has experience of building effective strategic and operational partnerships across agency boundaries, and of the challenges this presents. For six years, as a Sure Start area manager in Salford, she developed joint work between children’s and health service partners. She is committed to developing early intervention, and to reducing all forms of inequality affecting the long term life chances of people in urban areas.
Annie Harrison has been supporting public health research since 2006, following previous careers as a counsellor working in drug/alcohol and community health projects, and as a human rights researcher, trainer and observer. Her interests include urban health, respiratory disease and immunisation and she has a particular interest in hard-to-reach urban communities. Annie is also a practicing artist with a particular interest in place and memory. She is an artist in residence at LIME Arts, a Manchester-based arts and health organisation and is studying for an MA by Research in Art Practice.
Adam Reekie started as a Research Assistant in early 2013 with a strong background in policy makers and a particular interest in Law and how policy affects the healthcare system. Adam focused his interest within the Manchester Urban Collaboration on Health (MUCH) department and has since facilitated national policy maker interviews to establish changes within the NHS and the emergence of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). His future interests lie in promoting the public health theme through conferences and will be taking the rains on all the digital marketing and social media for the 11th International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH 2014).
Kieran Walshe is Professor of Health Policy and Management at Manchester Business School. He is also associate director of the National Institute of Health Research health services and delivery research programme, which exists to serve the research needs of managers and clinicians in the NHS (www.netscc.ac.uk/hsdr/). He is editor of the journal Health Services Management Research (http://hsmr.rsmjournals.com), board member of the UK Health Services Research Network and a board member and scientific committee chair of the European Health Management Association (www.ehma.org) . From 2003 to 2006 he directed the Centre for Public Policy and Management in Manchester Business School, and from 2009 to 2011 he directed the university's Institute of Health Sciences.
Kieran Walshe has twenty years experience in health policy, health management and health services research. He has previously worked at the University of Birmingham, the University of California at Berkeley, and the King's Fund in London, and has a professional background in healthcare management. He often works at the interface between research and practice and values the opportunities it offers to engage with the policy and practitioner communities and to put ideas into action. He has particular interests and expertise in quality and performance in healthcare organisations; the governance, accountability and performance of public services; and the use of evidence in policy evaluation and learning. He has led a wide range of research projects funded by the ESRC, Department of Health, NIHR, and EU FP7 programme, and other government departments and NHS organisations. He has advised a wide range of government agencies and organisations, in the UK and internationally.
MICRA is a cross-faculty University research institute on ageing led by Professors Chris Phillipson (sociology and social gerontology), James Nazroo (sociology), Alistair Burns (old age psychiatry), Dean Jackson (cell biology), Cay Kielty (medical biochemistry) and Dr Neil Pendleton (geriatric medicine). MICRA promotes interdisciplinary research on all aspects of ageing and Jo works with academics from right across the University as well as with practitioners, policy makers and older people. Jo joined the University of Manchester 2010 to set up and co-ordinator MICRA, then a research network, and has previously worked in communications, project management and change management roles across the private and voluntary sectors. She holds two masters degrees in psychology from the University of Manchester and previously worked as a research assistant at Manchester Business School.
David Haley trained as a fine artist at Camberwell, London, in the 1970s, then worked in new product design, community arts development, European touring theatre, and commercial conference production until he joined Welfare State International in 1990 to engage in celebratory arts and urban renewal. In the mid 90s David started to create ecological arts projects and worked with Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison before joining Arts for Health at Manchester Metropolitan. In 2003 he became leader of the award winning MA Art As Environment course and a Research Fellow.
As Senior Research Fellow in MIRIAD at Manchester Metropolitan University, Haley is Director of the Ecology In Practice research group. His affiliations include: Visiting Professor, Zhongyuan University of Technology; Vice Chair of The Chartered Institution for Water and Environmental Management, Art & Environment Network and member of the Natural Capital Steering Group, Director, Board of Trustees, INIFAE [International Institute For Art and the Environment], and Lanternhouse International; editor for Cultura21, ecoart Scotland, and MAiA journal. He is, also, an associate of the Global Centre for the Study of Sustainable Futures and Spirituality, and a member of UK Man and the Biosphere Urban Forum.
