Judging

Judging will take place at the BMA House, London, during the last two weeks of January, 2010.

Award judges for 2010 include:

Research Paper of the Year

Fiona Godlee - Editor in chief of the BMJ
Fiona has been Editor in Chief of the BMJ since 2005.

She qualified as a doctor in 1985, trained as a general physician in Cambridge and London, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Since joining the BMJ in 1990 she has written on a broad range of issues, including the impact of environmental degradation on health, the future of the World Health Organisation, the ethics of academic publication, and the problems of editorial peer review.
In 1995, she led the development of BMJ Clinical Evidence, which evaluates the best available evidence on the benefits and harms of treatments and is now provided worldwide to over a million clinicians in 9 languages. In 2000 she moved to Current Science Group to establish the open access online publisher BioMed Central as Editorial Director for Medicine. In 2003 she returned to the BMJ Group to head up its new Knowledge division.

Zulfiquar Bhutta – South East Asia, Paediatrics and Global Health

Dr Zulfiqar A. Bhutta is Husein Laljee Dewraj Professor and Chairman, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University Medical Center, Karachi, Pakistan and adjunct professor in International Health & Family and Community at the department of International Health at the Boston University and Tufts University (Boston).

Professor Sally Davies - Director General (DG) of Research and Development and Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department of Health and NHS.

Sally has been actively involved in NHS R&D from its establishment. As DG she developed the new government research strategy, Best Research for Best Health with a budget rising to £1billion, is now responsible for implementation of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR). She is a Board member of Office for the Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR) and chairs the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC).

Sally led the UK delegation to the WHO Ministerial Summit November 2004, spoke on R&D at the World Health Assembly May 2005, is a member of the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) and is currently chairing the Expert Advisory Committee for the development of the WHO research strategy. She is a member of the International Advisory Committee for A*STAR, Singapore and the Caribbean Health Research Council Board.
Her own research interests focus on Sickle Cell disease. She was a member of the steering groups for the Biotechnology Innovation and Growth Team, chaired by Sir David Cooksey, and its “Refresh” the Health Care Industry Task Force and is a member of the Health Innovation Council.

Frank Sullivan - Scottish School of Primary Care

Frank and his team were the winner of last year's Research Paper of the Year award. The judges were clear that Frank Sullivan and his colleagues in the Scottish School of Primary Care had produced an outstanding study. The School’s research into management of Bell’s palsy – a condition that affects mainly young adults by paralyzing half of their face – has shown that a simple, affordable, treatment can really speed up recovery.

Steve Goodman MD, MHS, PhD

Steve Goodman, MD, MHS, PhD, is Professor of Oncology, Pediatrics, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, and director of the division of Oncology Biostatistics. He writes and teaches extensively on the inferential and ethical issues in clinical research.

Getting Research into Practice

Angela Coulter PhD, Hon FFPH, Hon FRCGP

Angela Coulter is an independent healthcare analyst/consultant. From January 2000 to December 2008 she was chief executive of Picker Institute Europe, a UK-based charity working to promote understanding of the patient's perspective at all levels of healthcare policy and practice. Angela’s current clients include the Department of Health in England, NHS Choices, the King’s Fund and the Health Foundation.

Angela has published more than 250 research papers and reports and several books including The Autonomous Patient, The European Patient of the Future (with Helen Magee), The Global Challenge of Healthcare Rationing (with Chris Ham) and Hospital Referrals (with Martin Roland). She was the founding editor of Health Expectations.

Peter Rothwell - Professor of Clinical Neurology at the University of Oxford

Winner of last year's Outstanding Achievement in Evidence Based Health Care award, Professor Rothwell has pioneered developments in stroke prevention throughout his career. This award recognises his work on demonstrating the need for acute preventative treatment and now such treatment reduces the early risk of major strokes by 80%.

The Evidence based results from his team in Oxford has led to a national and international change in clinical practice, backed now by official guidelines from NICE.

Dr Peter Brindle - works three days a week as a GP in the Wellspring Surgery in inner city Bristol. He is also the research lead for three primary care trusts, a locality director of the Primary Care Research Network–South West and a member of the Western Comprehensive Local Research network executive group. Peter is a former Welcome Trust research fellow and his main research interests are around developing and implementing practical aids to vascular disease prevention, including QRISK and the QDiabetes Score.

Primary Care Team of the Year

Dr Laurence Buckman - GPC

Has been a GP since 1983 and remains in active single-handed practice in Finchley, within a corporate group. He spent several years training in hospital medicine, neurology and oncology but saw the light and later became a GP in Borehamwood. He was elected to the BMA GPs’ Committee (GPC) in 1990, has been a negotiator for the profession since 1997 and the Chairman of the GPC since 2007. He is a member of the BMA Council, Chairman of its GMC Working Group and is one of the main authors of the Quality and Outcomes Framework of the GP Contract. He sits on many other committees to do with GP education, NHS finance and regulation. He is a tutor in General Practice at UCL Medical School. His hobbies are photography, music, cycling and model railways.

David Colin-Thome - National Clinical Director for Primary Care.

He is also a part-time GP and honorary visiting professor of the Manchester Centre for Healthcare Management at Manchester University.
Prior to being appointed as National Clinical Director, he was Director of Primary Care at the Department of Health's London Regional Office, and Senior Medical Officer at the Scottish Office NHS Management Executive. He was also formerly a member of Halton Health Authority, Cheshire Family Health Services Authority and a local councillor. He was awarded the OBE in 1997.
He was educated at Hutton Grammar School in Preston, and the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Medical School.
Dr Colin-Thome is a grandfather, and a proud Everton supporter.

Trish Greenhalgh - North London GP and Professor of Primary Health Care at UCL

Trish's research interests include socio-technical change, evidence-based policymaking and the use of narrative as a complex intervention. She has a particular interest in the interface between research and service delivery, hence in such things as 'knowledge transfer', 'getting research into practice and policy', and so on. Trish sits on 13 national and international committees and working groups and is the author of 115 peer-reviewed publications and 9 books.

Iona Heath - North-west London GP and former President of of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

As a GP for the Caversham Group Practice in Kentish Town in London since 1975, Iona has been a nationally elected member of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners since 1989. She chaired the College’s Health Inequalities Standing group from 1997 to 2003, the Committee on Medical Ethics from 1998 to 2004 and the International Committee from 2006 to 2009. She was elected as President of the College for 3 years from November 2009. She chaired the Ethics Committee of the BMJ from 2004 to 2009.

Dr Bill Reith - Chair of Postgraduate Training Board.

Graduated from Edinburgh University in 1974 and completed vocational training for general practice in Aberdeen in 1978. He has been a principal in general practice in Aberdeen since then.

He has experience of many aspects of postgraduate training for general practice. He has been a trainer, an associate adviser and, from 1986-96, was regional adviser in general practice for North East Scotland. He was a member of the JCPTGP from 1992-99 and was a leader visitor from 1996-2005. He was a member of UK Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners from 1990-2003 – being honorary secretary from 1994-99 and chairman of Scottish Council from 2000-03. He returned to council in 2005 as chair of the Postgraduate Training Board.

Interests outside of medicine include food and wine, reading and hill walking.

Secondary Care Team of the Year

Michael Burke - Medical Director at North West London Hospitals NHS Trust.

Qualified Charing Cross 1971, MB BS; FRCS (Eng) 1974; MS(London)1982
MRC Clinical Researc Fellow, Clinical Research Centre, Northwick Park Hospital 1975-78.
Senior Registrar Royal Free Hospital 1980-85, including 1 year RSO at St Mark's Hospital.
Consultant General Surgeon Northwick Park Hospital and North West London Hospitals NHS Trust 1985-2009, Special Interest Breast and Endocrine Surgery;
Medical Director, NWLH NHS Trust 2005-2009 (Clinical Director 1990-93)

RCS Regional Advisor North West Thames and Regional Speciality Advisor 1993-98
Member of RCS Hospital Recognition Committee 1999-2001
Chairman of NW Thames Higher Surgical Training Committee 1993-98

Regional Surgical Quality Assurance coordinator, London Region Breast Screening Service and member of National Surgical Quality Assurance Group 2000-2004
Clinical research publications in use of lymph node contact cytology in selective axillary surgery in breast cancer and in development of focussed, day care surgery in hyperparathyroidism.

Bernard Crump -CEO NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.

Studied Medicine at Birmingham University qualifying in 1980. After 7 years in clinical practice and clinical research, he returned to the West Midlands to postgraduate training in Public Health Medicine. He spent a decade as Director of Public Health, in South Birmingham and in Leicestershire, where he was also Deputy Chief Executive. In 2002 he became CEO of Shropshire & Staffordshire Strategic Health Authority, a post which he occupied until being appointed the first CEO of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement in July 2005.

He has written and lectured on a wide range of topics in healthcare including aspects of population health, the role of clinicians in management, health and healthcare improvement, the use of metrics in encouraging improvement and the use of health economics in decision making. He is visiting professor at the University of Leicester and Honorary professor at the University of Warwick.

He has been a member or chairman of many national committees and the author of several influential reports. Most recently he chaired the DH Choosing Health Public Health Information and Intelligence taskforce and has been made an inaugural member of the new Health Innovation Council.

Bernard lives in Leicestershire with his wife, Isabel, a GP and two children, Eleanor and Thomas.

Dr Andrew Vallance-Owen - MBA FRCS Ed

Andrew Vallance-Owen qualified at the Birmingham University Medical School, later undertaking surgical training in Newcastle upon Tyne and Melbourne, Australia.
His career within the British Medical Association, BMA, started as Provincial Medical Secretary for the north of England followed by promotion to the post of BMA Scottish Secretary. Latterly he moved to London to become Head of Central Services and International Affairs, a role which also developed into Head of Policy Development. In addition, he became Secretary of the BMA Charitable Trusts and frequently acted as a spokesman for the BMA and the medical profession.
His experience spans the broad management spectrum in medicine with hands on experience of management, industrial relations, negotiating, political lobbying, public speaking and media communications. He has also developed a specific interest in clinical audit and professional accountability over the last 15 years and has published on the subject.
He became Medical Director of BUPA Hospitals in 1994 and, in 1995, became BUPA’s Group Medical Director where he has furthered his interests in the quality of health care, clinical audit and outcomes. He has expertise in health screening and promotion and is a keen advocate of improved doctor/patient communication and shared decision making. He has considerable knowledge and experience in the field of health and medical politics.

Neil J Douglas MD DSc FRCP FRCPE - Professor of Respiratory & Sleep Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

Where his research interests focus on the causation, consequences and treatment of Sleep Apnoea. Professor Douglas has published over 200 original peer reviewed papers on sleep and breathing and over 200 reviews/chapters including the chapter on Sleep Apnea in the new edition of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. His recent Editorial Board memberships include The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine; Sleep; Sleep Medicine; and Sleep Medicine Reviews.

He was elected President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from March 2004. He chairs the Education & Training Committee of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) and, in July 2009, became Chair of the UK Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. He is also Chairman of the Academy of Royal Colleges & Faculties in Scotland. He is a member of the General Medical Council (GMC) Education Committee and the GMC Assessment Group and was previously a member of the General Medical Council. He is also Chairman of the Medical Assessment Partnership Board. He has driven competency-based curricula and assessment of competence and chairs a variety of groups for AoMRC looking variously at assessment and assessment standards. In October 2006 he was appointed as a medical member of the Postgraduate Medical Education & Training Board (PMETB). In March 2007 Professor Douglas was asked by the UK Department of Health to chair a Review Group to look at how the new Medical Training Application System (MTAS) was operating and to recommend how it could be used in future years.

Junior Doctor of the Year

Sir Christopher Edwards - Chairman of Medical Education England, a new body responsible for advising Ministers on the education, training and workforce requirements of doctors, dentists, pharmacists and healthcare scientists. He is also Chairman of Council of the British Heart Foundation and of the Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust and a Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College. He was Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, the first Principal of the Imperial College School of Medicine and from 2001-2007 the Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University.

Fiona Moss - Acting Dean Director of the London Deanery.

From 1992 until 2004, Fiona was founder editor of Quality and Safety in Health Care, a BMJ Publishing group journal. Since 1994 Fiona has been on the Strategic Advisory Group of the International (previously European) Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care. In 2006 Fiona was awarded a CBE for services to medicine.

Fiona has recently established London's specialty schools. In 2009, with NHS London she set up the London Deanery / NHS London Darzi Fellowship Programme. She is a former member of NHS London's Education Strategy reference group.

Fiona's interests include postgraduate and undergraduate medical education, the quality and safety of healthcare and the relationships between organisational development, education and quality improvement. Fiona is the editor of the Postgraduate Medical Journal and sits on the Editorial Board of the BMJ and the Royal Society of Medicine Press Board.

Professor Ian Gilmore MD, PRCP - President Royal College of Physicians

Professor Ian Gilmore is the President of the Royal College of Physicians. He is a Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool University Hospitals and Honorary Professor at the Department of Medicine, University of Liverpool. His specialty interest is liver disease.

Professor Gilmore was previously Registrar of the College and a member of Council. He chaired a Working Party in 2001, producing the report Alcohol – can the NHS afford it? A blueprint for a coherent alcohol strategy. Professor Gilmore continues to chair the Alcohol Committee and now also chairs the Alcohol Health Alliance in which relevant agencies work together in a coherent and focussed framework. He is Chair of the European Alcohol and Health Forum Science Group and is a member of the Climate and Health Council.

He is currently a Commissioner for Sir Michael Marmot’s review of the social determinants of health in this country and a member of the National Quality Board. He has lectured extensively overseas and has had particularly fruitful clinical and research collaborations with American colleagues. He continues to undertake some clinical work.

Professor Gilmore is married with three children.

Excellence in Healthcare Education

Sir Kenneth Calman – Chancellor, University of Glasgow
Sir Kenneth Calman graduated in medicine (with commendation) in 1967 having obtained a number of distinctions and prizes throughout this course.
He moved into the Department of Surgery in Glasgow and proceeded to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons and an MD Thesis with Honours on Organ Preservation. He lives in Glasgow and on the Island of Arran.

Professor Parveen Kumar - A physician and gastroenterologist, and teacher at Barts and the London, Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London
Parveen is a Past President of the BMA. Professor of Medicine and Education at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London and a consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist.

Imtiaz Shah - Undergraduate Medical School, University of Glasgow.
Imtiaz and his colleagues at the Medical School, University of Glasgow were the winners of the Excellence in Learning and Education award last year. The judges were impressed with their development of an innovative 'blended learning' approach to teaching senior medical students at the university. The team developed a web based interactive course in Acute Medicine that complements the students' clinical teaching. Imtiaz is also involved in developing clinical cases for the ACUMEN e-learning for Healthcare programme.

Best Quality Improvement

Sir Graham Teasdale - Honorary Professor in the Section of Psychological Medicine
Sir Graham Teasdale is an Honorary Professor in the Section of Psychological Medicine. He was previously Professor of Neurosurgery, Head of the Department of Neurosurgery and Associate Dean for Medical Research. Along with Brian Jennett, he invented the Glasgow Coma Scale, or GCS, which is used in every hospital around the world to give a reliable, objective way of measuring the conscious state of a patient.

Sir Graham was President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 2003 until 2006. He was knighted in 2006 for his services to neurosurgery.

Helen Bevan - Director of Service Transformation
Helen is Director of Service Transformation at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. This is a national organisation that supports the NHS to accelerate the delivery of world-class health and healthcare by encouraging innovation and developing capability at the frontline of patient care.

Over the past 15 years Helen has led change initiatives at local and national level which have created improvements for millions of patients. Her current role is to keep NHS improvement knowledge fresh, relevant, impactful at the leading edge.

Professor Jonathon Gray - Director of healthcare improvement at the Wales Centre for Health.
As a joint Director of the 1000 Lives Campaign, he is currently responsible for a two-year programme aimed at improving patient safety and healthcare quality throughout the NHS in Wales.
In January 2009, he was appointed Cardiff University’s first designated chair responsible for driving forward research in healthcare improvement and patient care.
Working with colleagues in both NHS Trusts and Local Health Boards, he is developing and implementing new ways of working in six key areas that will help to save an additional 1000 lives, and avoid up to a further 50,000 episodes of harm in healthcare.
The Campaign fits in with his current role as Director of Healthcare Improvement at the Wales Centre for Health which he has held since 2006. Prior to taking this position, Jonathon had a year-long fellowship at The Institute for Healthcare Improvement in the USA focusing on quality improvement and patient safety. He also completed an Advanced Medical Leader Award (BAMM) and a Masters in Public Health at Harvard.

He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medical Genetics at University of Wales, Cardiff and has published more than 60 research papers.

Professor Sir Bruce Keogh - President-elect of the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland

Worked as a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Hammersmith Hospital in London and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, where he was associate medical director for clinical governance and the cardiac surgical service lead, before becoming Professor of Cardiac Surgery at University College London and Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Heart Hospital.

As a CHI Commissioner he chaired the Joint CHI / Audit Commission National Service Frameworks Programme Board which reviewed the implementation of the national service frameworks. He is now a Commissioner on the Healthcare Commission where he chairs the Clinical Strategy Group. He was a member of the National Taskforce for Coronary Heart Disease and has been a member of the NHS Standing Medical Advisory Committee. He has a long standing interest in factors affecting surgical outcomes and has been intimately involved in the development of the DH / NHSIA / Healthcare Commission Central Cardiac Audit Database.

He is president-elect of the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, President of the Cardiothoracic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and International Director of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (USA). He was knighted in 2003 for services to medicine.

Clinical Leadership

Pam Garside - Partner Newhealth,Visiting Fellow Judge Business School University of Cambridge
Pam is Senior Associate of the Nuffield Trust, Board Director of the International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation in Washington DC and member of the Advisory Board of Doctors.net.uk. She has her own management consultancy, Newhealth, specialising in organisational strategy and development in health care. She works extensively with boards of health care organisations on governance and strategy issues

Pam holds a BSc from the University of Durham and a Masters Degree in Hospital and Health Care Administration from the University of Minnesota.

Dr Sam Everington MBBS, MRCGP, Barrister, OBE

Sam is a GP in the East End of London in a health centre used by the government as a model for “Healthy Living Centres” and NHS Lift premises. It was formally designated by Government as a ‘Healthy Living Centre’ in 2000 and achieved Beacon Status in 2001. In 2003 it was designated by government as a national “Children’s Centre”.

The centre recognises the holistic approach to health and health care and the importance of education, the environment, arts and employment. The centre includes over one hundred social enterprises including complimentary therapies, art studios, a nursery, community care projects, landscape design, public art and a community café. It is a unique partnership between the private, public and voluntary sector, the community and patients. The majority of the centre’s users come from minority ethnic groups living in one of the most deprived areas of the country.

Sam was previously Deputy Chair of the British Medical Association, is a Director of Community Health Partnerships (NHS Lift) and a qualified Barrister. In 1999 he received the OBE for services to inner city primary care, and in 2006 received the World Family Doctors (Wonca) Europe international award of excellence in health care. He is an Ambassador for Social Enterprise (Joint project Cabinet Office and Social Enterprise Coalition (2007-) and was on the Ministerial Advisory Board on Primary Care (Access) (2007-2008)

Richard Holti - Senior lecturer in organisational change and development at the Open University Business School.
He has wide experience of leading and designing innovative management education offerings, which relate directly to the demands of professional practice.
His approach is shaped by his record, over the last twenty years, of working collaboratively with practitioners in a range of sectors on action research projects. He has led teams in a number of different sectors, using methodologies of social scientific inquiry to help people develop new understandings of complex organisational and inter-organisational issues facing them, then supporting them in implementing and evaluating potential solutions. For the last three years, with funding from the NHS, he has been developing this kind of engaged mode of working with a number of NHS trusts, examining issues of governance and performance improvement. He is currently the academic lead on a partnership between the OU and BMJ Learning, providing leadership education for doctors and other clinicians.

He has co-authored three books and numerous papers in academic and practitioner journals. He has a BA in physics and history and philosophy of science from Cambridge University, and an MSc and PhD in organisational sociology at Imperial College.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Jane Fiona Cumming – Co-founder and Director of Article 13 Ltd. Jane Fiona is a founding director of Article 13 based on the innovation opportunities in the challenges of sustainable development (environment, social and economic agendas) including CSR, ethics and governance. She is a highly sought after advisor for organisations and individuals seeking to build their capacity for development. She is also an experienced mentor for business strategy and planning.

Jane Fiona is an associate of the National Centre for Social Marketing, a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and the Association of Facilitators. She has a Diploma in Corporate Governance ACCA and MBA in Strategic Marketing.

Janet Sidaway - Director of CSR Consulting, a boutique consultancy specialising in developing and assessing CSR policies and practices.
Janet was a top rated investment analyst who has developed her interest in corporate social responsibility by setting up a boutique consultancy, specialising in reviewing CSR policies and practices across a range of organisations. She draws on her extensive knowledge of the corporate and investment worlds to advise organisations on how best to ensure that CSR is not just rhetoric but becomes a reality which contributes to an organisation’s long term objectives.

Olivia Roberts - Senior Researcher Officer in the International Department of the British Medical Association.

Prior to the joining the BMA, Olivia worked in Vietnam for UNAIDS and The Population Council on HIV prevention projects and sexual and reproductive health, predominantly in young people. She also has experience of policy development in the UK health and development sector. She has been with the BMA since 2008.

Olivia leads on the BMA’s work on medical fair and ethical trade and the BMA Medical Fair and Ethical Trade Group won the 2009 BMJ Group Award on Corporate Social Responsibility.

Health Communicator of the Year

Niall Dickson - Head of the King's Fund, former BBC social affairs editor, and former editor of Nursing Times
Niall has worked in the private, voluntary and public sectors. He held posts in national charities involved with elderly people, before becoming a journalist. He was Editor of Therapy Weekly for the allied health professions and then of Nursing Times.

Niall moved to the BBC in 1988 as Health Correspondent, became Chief Social Affairs Correspondent and then in 1995 Social Affairs Editor.

Polly Toynbee - Guardian columnist and broadcaster and was formerly the BBC's social affairs editor.

She has won a National Press Award and has been What the Papers Say columnist of the Year. For much of 2002, Polly Toynbee took up the challenge of living in one of the worst council estates in Britain and taking whatever was on offer at the job centre. Published in February 2003, Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britain is a compelling, powerfully written and impassioned account of her experiences.

Polly Toynbee's latest book was written with David Walker, formerly chief leader writer of the Independent. They ask: what did Labour really achieve? Did Iraq overshadow all? Did public services improve? Were the targets reached, the promises met? Better or Worse? contains a thorough audit of hospitals, schools, trains, climate change, the constitution and the countryside, revealing the hard facts. Incisive, comprehensive and fair, Better or Worse? gets away from the personalities and the spin to reveal the true political picture of Blair’s Britain. This is an essential analysis Labour Party performance.

Professor Justin Lewis - Professor of Communication and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. He joined Cardiff in 2000, having worked for 12 years in the United States at the University of Massachusetts. He has written many books about media, communication and politics, his most recent being Citizens or Consumers – What the Media Tell Us About Political Participation (2005) and Shoot First and Ask Questions Later – Media Coverage of the 2003 Iraq War (2006). He is on the editorial board of eight
academic journals and edits a series for Peter Lang.
In the last 5 years he has led a number of research projects for the BBC, the BBC Trust, the Office of Science and Innovation, the Economic and Social Research Council, Rowntree/the Guardian and Channel 4

He was a member of the Government’s last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) Panel on Communication, Media and Cultural Studies, and has advised a range of bodies (including the BBC, Sciencewise, the Royal Society and the Office of Science and Communication) on media, culture, science communication and news.

Vikki Entwistle – Professor of Values in Health Care & Editor of Health Expectations
Vikki Entwistle has worked as a health services researcher within the higher education sector for almost 15 years. She has a longstanding interest in communication in healthcare and in patients’ (or health service users’) perspectives on and contributions to health care, and has published widely on these topics. Vikki’s work draws on insights and methods from academic social sciences and philosophy as well as personal/family experiences of health service use. She has held posts at the University of York and University of Aberdeen, and was a Harkness Fellow in Health Policy at Harvard School of Public Health. Vikki is currently Professor of Values in Health Care at the Social Dimensions of Health Institute (a joint initiative of the Universities of Dundee and St Andrews). She is also Editor of Health Expectations: an international journal of public participation in health care.

Nigel Hawkes - science and health journalist.

Nigel graduated from Oxford with a degree in metallurgy in 1966, and has written about science, health and international affairs in a career that began on the staff of Nature and included long spells at The Observer (1972-90) and The Times (1990-2008). He retired from The Times in 2008 after eight years as Health Editor, and is now a columnist for the BMJ and Director of a pressure group, Straight Statistics, which campaigns for the honest presentation and use of statistical data by government, media, and others.

He has written a number of books, including Structures, a book about building and civil engineering, and more than 40 science and technology titles for children and teenagers. He was appointed CBE in 1998 for services to the newspaper industry and science, and was the Medical Journalists Association health writer of the year in 2007.

Dr Valerie Curtis - Director & Reader in Hygiene, The Hygiene Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Background
Val is a behavioural scientist whose principal interest is in hygiene (its evolution, its history, its relationship with water and sanitation, and how to improve it). She is Senior Lecturer in Hygiene Promotion and directs the Hygiene Centre at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Originally trained in engineering, she has a Master’s in Public Health and a PhD in Anthropology.
She was a founder of the Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap and is on the steering committee. Val organises the MSc study module on Designing Disease Control Programmes in Developing Countries and teaches Tropical Environmental Health. She carries out advisory work in Africa, Asia and the UK for organisations such as DFID, the World Bank and Industry.
Val is a regular contributor to TV and radio (Channel 4 series the Anatomy of Disgust, BBC Human Instincts, The Body Snatchers, Body shocks, Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, BBC World Service, etc).

Val’s research interests include:

• the evolution of human behaviour, the role of disgust and its relationship to hygiene and morality
• handwashing and its impact on public health,
• developing new approaches to public health through evolutionary psychology, marketing and public-private partnerships
• the measurement of hygiene practices
• improving sanitation in developing countries through marketing
• the history of hygiene
Findings

Val is currently working on the development and testing of a new approach to behaviour change with collaborator Robert Aunger