The SPHR Advisory Board provides independent strategic advice to the School’s Executive Group on the development of its activities, direction and priorities. The Board provides input in the broader context of national and international strategic opportunities, practice and policy.
The Board includes professionals drawn from organisations and professional bodies with responsibility for developing and implementing public health measures, senior academic researchers in public health from outside England, and two lay expert members who contribute a public perspective.
Membership of the Board for 2022–2027 is as follows:
Dr Ruth Hussey CB OBE DL (Chair of the Advisory Board)
Baljit Banga, Executive Director at Imkaan
Professor Sara Blackmore, Director of Public Health for South Gloucestershire – representative of the Association of Directors of Public Health
Dr Rachel Clark, Head of Evidence and Evaluation, OHID
Professor Nancy Edwards, RN, PhD, FCAHS
Professor Brian Ferguson, Director of the NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme and Chair of the PHR Prioritisation Committee
Professor Sharon Friel, Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Governance at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University
Dr Andrew Furber OBE, Regional Director for Public Health in the North West, OHID
Professor Hilary Graham CBE FBA, Professor of Health Sciences, University of York
John Hume, Chief Executive of People’s Health Trust
Professor Frank Kee, Director of the UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health Research (Northern Ireland), Queens University Belfast
Dr Louise Marshall, Senior Public Health Fellow, The Health Foundation
Professor Emma McIntosh, Deputy Director of Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment (HEHTA), Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow
Professor Jim McManus, President of the Association of Directors of Public Health and Director of Public Health for Hertfordshire County Council
Professor Laurence Moore, Director of the MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow
Professor Kate Pickett, Deputy Director of the Centre for Future Health and Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, University of York
David Pye, Head of Research & Information, Local Government Association
Professor Derek Ward, Director of Public Health for Lincolnshire and lead of ADPH Data, Intelligence & Research Policy Advisory Group
Two representatives from the SPHR Public Partners Network
Clare Jowett
Geoffrey Gleadhill