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Andrew Brown |
Andrew Brown is the
co-ordinator of the Forum for Rural Children and Young
People. Based at the National Children’s Bureau the
Forum is a strategic body drawing together national
organisations interested in improving outcomes for rural
children and young people. It facilitates the sub-group
for children and young people of the Rural Affairs Forum
for England, DEFRA’s external stakeholders body, and has
a wider network of local projects, parish councils,
local authorities and regional bodies, which help to
inform the work of the Forum.
Andrew is the author of Opportunities and Challenges; a
guide to the Rural White Paper, has provided evidence to
the government’s Cross Cutting Review of Children at
Risk around the needs of rural children and young
people. Before coming to the Forum he worked as a
personal and political assistant to a West Midlands MP,
and is currently a councillor in an inner London
borough, where he chairs the Social Care and Health
Select Committee.
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Christina Clark |
Christina Clark currently works for the Coalition to
Stop the Use of Child Soldiers as programme officer for
Africa. Prior to joining the Coalition, she managed
development assistance programmes to the Democratic
Republic of Congo, at the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA). In this capacity, she was
posted to the Canadian Embassy in Kinshasa as acting
Head of Aid. Before joining the Congo Programme, Ms
Clark advised the Canadian Minister of International
Cooperation on child protection and human security
issues. She has also been actively involved in refugee
and immigration issues through volunteer work with
Amnesty International’s refugee network and various
community organisations. Ms Clark has an MPhil in
International Relations (Thesis: Peacebuilding –
Developing a Secure Environment in War-Torn Societies)
from the University of Cambridge, and a BA in
International Relations and French Linguistics from the
University of British Columbia.
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| Jo
Cole |
Currently focussing on injury prevention work with Young
People. Worked in partnership with Hull City Council and
HEY Hospitals Trust to implement Injury Minimisation
Programme for Schools (IMPS) in Hull and now planning
roll out into the East Riding of Yorkshire. Two years
experience working as a Health Promotion Specialist and
previously worked at BAE SYSTEMS formerly British
Aerospace.
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Anthony Costello |
Anthony Costello is
Professor of International Child Health. After clinical
training as a paediatrician and research in neonatology
at University College Hospital, London, he spent three
years in western Nepal with Save the Children Fund where
he gained extensive experience in the management of
primary health care programmes.
He now runs the International Perinatal Care Unit at the
Institute. For the past ten years he has collaborated
closely with MIRA, a research organisation in Nepal, and
currently runs a large epidemiological field site in
Makwanpur district Nepal, monitoring pregnancies and
neonatal outcomes in a rural population of 180,000, a
project involving 375 Nepali staff. He also collaborates
with projects in Malawi and Zambia, and in Bangladesh
and India.
He has been a consultant to the World Bank, USAID, UNDP
and SCF on management of primary health services in
Nepal, Bangladesh and Iran, and is a WHO consultant on
perinatal health and nutrition.
He is the author of Improving Newborn Infant Health in
Developing Countries, and State of the World's Newborn
report released by Save the Children and Women and
Children First (UK) in September 2001. He is also the
founder and executive director of Women and Children
First, an NGO set up to promote the health of mothers
and infants.
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| Jane
Cowan |
Dr Cowan is a
medico-legal adviser with many years experience in risk
management consultancy and claims handling. She has
worked in the Risk Management Unit (now MPS Risk
Consulting) at the Medical Protection Society since its
inception and prior to that was a claims handler in
CNST. Dr Cowan is a former consultant Paediatrician who
worked within a combined acute and community trust.
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Amelia Cumbi |
Amelia Jossai Namburete
Cumbi holds a Master in Community Health from the
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (1989). Her main
interests are Health Planning and Financing, Essential
Drugs, Health Services Evaluation, Quality of Care,
Management and Decentralisation. She has more than
twenty years of working experience in Mozambique. She
first worked as a District Officer in remote areas of
northern Mozambique. From 1985 to 1988 she worked at the
Essential Drug Programme in the Ministry of Health. From
1993 to 2002 she was a Swiss Cooperation Consultant and
the adviser on institutional and budget support to
provincial expenditure.
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Subhash Daga |
Subhash Daga is currently
working as an associate professor of paediatrics at The
Grant Medical College, Mumbai, India and its affiliated
hospital, Cama & Albless Hospital. Area of special
interest is low cost technology, appropriate for
developing countries. Has been associated with Rural
Newborn Care Programme in a tribal block of Thane
district. The programme has well-defined packages for
home and hospital based neonatal care. Currently
conducting training programme for nurses and doctors
from remote areas of Maharashtra state in management of
critically sick children.
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Bernie Dawson |
Bernie is responsible for the development and management
of the Safeguarding Children Training for the 4 PCT's,
the Community Trust and the Hospital Trust. The team has
recently developed the strategy 'Training Together to
Safeguard Children, a modular programme for Health Staff
in Hull and the East Riding Area'.
The aim of the modular training programme is to provide
a training programme that is:
- appropriate to the needs of all
health staff;
- of a high quality - grounded in
research and evidence based information;
- accessible and equitable to all
staff;
- delivered by suitably trained
staff;
- adequately resourced in terms of
funding, management and administration, delivery and
resources;
- measurable in terms of
effectiveness and efficiency;
- monitored and audited
appropriately.
The long-term intentions of the
modular training programme, over a 3-year period, are to
meet the training needs of the whole health family
within Hull and the East Riding, including private
hospitals, local pharmacists, dentists and optical
services.
The modular training programme will be flexible and
responsive to organisational and workforce changes. The
training programme will complement the inter-agency
training available to staff through the ACPC as well as
training that is available from other external agencies
and organisations. The development of the NHS University
and Medical School that is due to open in 2003 will also
be considered.
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Hrizantema D Dobreva MBBS MD DTCH MRCPCH |
Hrizantema obtained her qualifications abroad:
Undergraduate training in medicine (1983) and
postgraduate training in Paediatrics (1992) completed in
Bulgaria
(Academy of Medicine, Sofia,).
She has held various positions overseas including
Paediatrician posts in Bulgaria and
Head of Paediatric Department at 8th Policlinic, Sofia.
This was followed
by 3 years voluntary work for the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) as a Senior Lecturer and
Consultant Paediatrician. Other positions include Head
of
Department at Mbarara University of Science and
Technology, Uganda.
Hrizantema has gained other qualifications in the UK -
Diploma in Tropical Child Health (Liverpool 1999) and
MRCPCH (2000).
Her professional career in the UK includes training
posts in Paediatrics at Hull Royal Infirmary (General
Paediatrics and Neonatology), St James Hospital Leeds
(Paediatric Oncology and Community Paediatrics), and
Sheffield Children Hospital (SpR).
She is currently working as a Staff Grade in Paediatrics
at the Diana Princess of Wales Hospital Grimsby.
(Awaiting recognition of the postgraduate training
abroad).
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Nicholas Hart |
Mr Hart is 53 years of
age. He spent part of his childhood in Hull and in
Leeds. He trained in plastic surgery in Plymouth,
Birmingham and Belfast before becoming a consultant
plastic surgeon in Hull in February 1990. He deals with
all aspects of plastic surgery and in particular cleft
lip and palate and head and neck reconstructive surgery.
Every year for the past four years Mr Hart has been
travelling to Pakistan with HEROPSA (Hull and East
Riding Overseas Plastic Surgery Appeal) with a team of
surgeons, anaesthetists and nurses, operating on
children with cleft lip and palate, hand deformities and
the effects of burns.
Mr Hart is married with three children. In his free time
he likes walking and playing the bagpipes.
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| Ian
Hurley |
In the early 90s I took
early retirement from the market research industry, and
since then have devoted my time principally to two
voluntary activities. I act as North West Co-ordinator
for Casa Alianza, a role which involves going into
schools and also talking to various interested groups -
churches, Rotary, Soroptimist, etc - and organise
meetings and speaking events for Bruce Harris when he is
able to come to this part of the country, as well
assisting in any way I can, other people who wish to
raise funds for the organisation in the North West of
England. I also sit as a magistrate in Bury.
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Louise Giles |
Louise Giles is a
Paediatric Respirologist in Winnipeg Manitoba. Our group
practice sees a variety of lung disease in children from
Manitoba, north west Ontario and places as far away as
Nunavut and the North West Territories. The lung disease
we see include Cystic Fibrosis, Asthma, and other
chronic obstructive and restrictive diseases. We have a
high incidence of bronchiectasis in our population and
have a growing number of children with TB.
Louise initially practiced as a nurse prior to entering
medical school at the University of Western Ontario. She
trained in Paediatrics at UWO, Paediatric Critical Care
and Paediatric Pulmonology at Duke University in North
Carolina. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the
University of Manitoba and a Scientist at the Manitoba
Institute of Child Health. Her research focuses on the
antioxidant properties of developing lung and the
relation of antioxidants to lung disease in children.
Other interests include: revamping the education program
in Paediatric Respiratory in Winnipeg, reviewing papers
for Paediatric Pulmonology, wine tasting and driving her
two children to numerous after school activities.
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| Neel
Kamal |
Dr Neel Kamal ,
Consultant Paediatrician is involved in managing
Children with Neurodevelopmental and Neurodisability
problems. His interest goes beyond Neurosciences and
Child Development. Having had his training at Ninewells
Hospital at Dundee and at John Radcliffe Hospital,
Oxford.
Neel returned to his native town in India to acquire
further experience and has been fascinated with the
Interaction between Societal influences and Child
Health. Neel has been a Lecturer, in Medical College for
a number of years. Currently, he is involved in the
development of Hull York Medical School as Clinical
co-ordinator.
Neel believes knowledge of Sociology as applied to
medicine is of specific importance to Child Health, and
Human Behaviour.
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Jennifer Mabbott |
Child Protection Panel
Jennifer Mabbott has worked in Community Paediatrics for
more than 20 years - the last 4 years in Hull and East
Riding as a Consultant Paediatrician in Community Child
Health. She have always been involved in Child
Protection despite it's often uncomfortable role and
hopes to have made a positive contribution to some
children’s lives. For 12 years until 2002 Dr Mabbott
worked as a Forensic Medical Examiner for Humberside
police and was called to examine women and children who
had been sexually abused. She has been acting as
Designated Doctor in Child Protection for the east
Riding and Hull Health Authority and now acts for the
PCT family in that role. Dr Mabbott is on the weekly
rota of consultants who see children at Hull Royal
Infirmary who may have been physically or sexually
abused or neglected.
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Roderick MacFaul |
Roderick is a Consultant
Paediatrician at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield and
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics,
University of Leeds. He qualified in Leeds in 1968,
training in paediatrics in London and in the armed
forces. Appointed in 1978 as Consultant in Paediatrics
with special interest in childhood disability in
Pinderfields Hospital. He now has special interest in
emergency paediatrics. Roderick was the Honorary
Secretary of the British Paediatric Association from
1989-1994 during its transition to the Royal College of
Paediatrics and Child Health and was elected as the
College’s first Vice President serving from 1994 to
1997. During this period served on numerous working
parties and committees including 7 years on the NHS
Standing Medical Advisory Committee. From 1996 has acted
as part time adviser in paediatrics to the Department of
Health, London with responsibilities including
establishment of the childhood screening committee,
review of neonatal intensive care, implementation of the
national paediatric intensive care strategy, child
health information and addressing child health
inequalities and well being for the NHS national plan.
Current research interests are in emergency paediatrics
and the use of health services by children.
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Professor Rajan Madhok MBBS, MSc, FRCS, FFPHM |
Rajan Madhok is the
Medical Director and Director of Public Health with
North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Health Authority in England.
He graduated from the University of Delhi, India and
came to the UK in 1980. Since originally training in
orthopaedic surgery he has held increasingly senior
public health leadership positions in the NHS. His
association with the Mayo Clinic, USA in 1991,
stimulated his interest in health care quality and
orthopaedic epidemiology and he has pursued these
actively since then.
Rajan is a Visiting Professor at the University of
Teesside, an Honorary Professor at the University of
Hull and a Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He was
made a Companion Fellow of the British Orthopaedic
Association in 2001. He is an active researcher who has
secured grants, authored three book chapters and over
100 papers and presented his work at various
conferences. He is a founding Editor of the Cochrane
Musculo-Skeletal Injuries Group and has served in
editorial capacities for the three main publications of
his specialty of public health medicine.
He is the 2003 Milroy Lecturer at the Royal College of
Physicians, London and his lecture is titled: Doctors in
the new millennium: Hippocrates or hypocrites?
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| Nick
Maurice |
Nick Maurice was a VSO
volunteer in Togo as a “gap year” teacher and Papua New
Guinea as a medical assistant in the early/mid sixties.
Having qualified as a doctor, he was the Director of the
Britain Nepal Medical Trust in the early seventies
working in the field of tuberculosis control. He worked
as a nutritionist with the Oxfam emergency team in
Cambodia in the early eighties. He subsequently became
chair of Oxfam’s Asia Committee and trustee of Oxfam for
eight years. He became a GP in Marlborough, Wiltshire in
1977, the sixth generation of his family to practice in
that town.
In 1982 he set up a link between Marlborough and the
Muslim fishing community of Gunjur in The Gambia. The
link is based on the exchange of people (700 to the
present time) between the two communities, a development
education programme in the UK and an integrated
development programme in The Gambia.
Nick retired early from general practice in 2002 to
become the Director of the UK One World Linking
Association (UKOWLA).
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Jodie McVernon |
Jodie McVernon is a
Paediatrician from Melbourne who has lived and worked in
the UK for the past four years, initially with the
Oxford Vaccine Group. At the end of 2002 she moved to
work in the Immunisation Division of the Health
Protection Agency’s Communicable Disease Surveillance
Centre, and divides her time between Colindale and the
Epidemiology and Infection Group of the Department of
Zoology in Oxford. Her primary research interest is the
evaluation of the United Kingdom’s Hib immunisation
programme.
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Margaret Mishra RNC, MSN, PNP |
Margaret Mishra is the
Director of Newborn Hearing at the Medical Centre of
Central Georgia in Macon Georgia, USA. MCCG delivers
3000 babies a year and is a regional referral center.
She started screening newborns for hearing loss in 1989
in the Neonatal Intensive Care. The program was expanded
to include all infants born at the hospital in 1997.
Currently the program screens 3000 babies per year with
a referral rate of 1.4%. Each year at least 8 infants
are diagnosed with a hearing loss and are referred to
local resources for amplification and habilitation. She
serves on the local and state task force for
coordination of services.
She became interested in children with hearing loss
after living with a
family in 1977 who had a young child with a profound
hearing loss. With amplification and auditory verbal
services, this child developed complete language and
went on to a be educated in the public school system
without any special services. Today that child is a
college graduate with total verbal skills.
Margaret Mishra is educated as a Paediatric Nurse
Practitioner and practices in that role in a private
practice.
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Kavery Nambisan |
Born in Kodagu (Coorg)
district, Karnataka, India. Kavery, graduated from St
John's Medical College, Bangalore and won the Merit
Prize in Surgery. She was sponsored by the College for
Higher Surgical Training in the UK.
She trained at University of Liverpool under the
guidance of Sir Robert Shields and obtained FRCS from
London in 1974 and returned to India to work as a
general surgeon, but has returned to the UK several
times over the years for short stints of training in
different fields of surgery.
She has worked in rural hospitals in the states of
Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu
and has set up one rural hospital in Karnataka, and one
nursing school in Uttar Pradesh.
Kavery is currently working as Chief Medical Officer of
the Rural India Health Project Hospital, and General
Manager (Medical Services) of Tata Coffee Ltd, in Coorg
district of Karnataka.
She is also a writer and has written several
award-winning stories for children in the 1980s, and
four adult novels. The Scent of Pepper (1996) also
published in the UK. A new novel based on medical
experiences will be published next year.
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Catherine Panter-Brick |
Dr. Catherine
Panter-Brick is a Reader in Anthropology at the
University of Durham. Her research interests focus on
medical anthropology and interdisciplinary approaches to
health in poverty. She has widely published on child
health, including a review article on ‘Street children,
human rights and public health’ in Annual Review of
Anthropology (2002) and a review chapter on ‘Achieving
health for children’ in Changing Childhoods: Global and
Local (Open University, 2003). She has edited the
volumes Biosocial Perspectives on Children (1989) and
Abandoned Children (2000) with Cambridge University
Press.
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| Mathew
Periappuram |
Act as an advocate for children in
need. As a paediatrician I have been working in UK for
more than 10 years, and in Ireland for 5 years.
Graduated in Kerala India, earned DCH from the National
University of Ireland, Dublin, MRCP in Paediatrics from
the Royal College of Physicians of UK and a Member of
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health London.
Worked in Nigeria for the Irish mission for almost 4
years. I am an active member of the Association for
Research in Infant and Child Development [ARICD] a
learned charitable society based in England and also a
member of International League Against Epilepsy [ILAE].
Currently I live with my wife and 2 children in
Beverley, East Yorkshire, England. My hobbies are
drawing, scrabble and tennis.
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Martin Schweiger |
Son of
refugees fleeing Nazi persecution in the 1930s, studied
medicine in Leeds in the late 1960s before working in
Bangladesh shortly after the war that led to
independence in the early 1970s. As a Quaker and Public
Health Physician has developed increasing concerns about
the welfare of those forced to flee the homes in recent
years.
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| Lisa
Smith |
Lisa Smith has worked in
the NHS for 18 years and has a background in Nursing.
She has also has experience of Health Promotion in Drugs
and Alcohol and was Project Manager, ‘Brief
interventions in alcohol’.
She has been involved in Primary Care Development and
held the position Senior Manager service strategy
(substance misuse) for ER&H Health Authority where she
was responsible for joint commissioning and treatment
strategy for adults and young people
Lisa currently has the lead for substance misuse on
behalf of the 4 local PCTs and has led new service
developments including young people's service (COSMIC)
and developed a tiered system of treatment for young
people from education, prevention, support, advice and
treatment.
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| Remy
Toko |
Nightfall in the Congo
Remy was born and grew up in Kinshasa, Democratic
Republic of Congo. He attended the University of
Kinshasa and qualified as medical doctor in 1989.
In May 1996 - June 2001, Remy trained in paediatrics and
child health at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa where he obtained a
fellowship of the College of Paediatricians of South
Africa.
In July 2001 he worked as a Consultant Paediatrician in
the PICU, CH Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg and in
January 2002 he became a Consultant Paediatrician at the
CME Nyankunde Hospital and lecturer at Nyankunde Nursing
college and also as a medical superintendent of CME
Nyankunde Hospital.
He is currently a Consultant Paediatrician, PICU, CH
Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg.
Remy is a member of Center for Conflict Resolution,
Bunia/DRCongo and also a member of Stop SIDA (HIV/AIDS
awareness campaign), Nyankunde.
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Barbara Wallace |
Barbara Wallace is the
Director of Infant and Child Health for the state of
Georgia, USA, a state with high rates of child poverty
and health disparities. She runs programs for newborn
genetic, hearing and developmental screening; well child
services; school health; healthy child care; paediatric
asthma; prevention of SIDS and other infant deaths; case
finding of children with special needs; and health of
foster care children. She is leading the development of
a child health strategy for the state.
Following two years of TB outreach and case management
in rural South Korea, she took her MPH at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was the founder
and director of a rural development NGO in North
Carolina. After moving to Europe, she initiated the
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society’s
global HIV/AIDS program in Geneva, working closely with
WHO, International Planned Parenthood and other NGOs
involved with youth, blood donation, refugee health, and
primary care. She developed the Federation’s AIDS
prevention, care and training programs in over 100
national Red Cross Societies in Africa, Latin America,
Eastern Europe, and the Asian-Pacific region. After
leaving the Federation, she served as a consultant to
WHO’s adolescent health program and Global Program on
AIDS. She has worked on child health strategy and
programs for Save the Children Fund, the British
National Health Service, and the Island of Jersey.
Recent international experiences include a health and
nutrition project in rural Zambia.
She is also the Acting Director of the HIV/AIDS program
for the state of Georgia.
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| Wali
Wardak |
Dr. A. Wali Wardak is a
Chartered Psychologist, currently attached to the
Department of Psychology at the University of Hull.
During the last ten years, he has been conducting
clinical and research work with Afghan, Iranian, Bosnian
and Somali refugee groups in the UK; with Tajik refugees
in Afghanistan and Pakistan; Bosnians victims of war in
Sarajevo; and victims of the Gulf War in Kuwait.
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| Jill
Wood |
| Jill is a Health Promotion Specialist with Hull and East
Riding Community Health NHS Trust. She has a background
in nursing and midwifery but for the last 5 years has
worked in health promotion. Currently Jill is promoting
injury prevention and safety within nursery, pre-school
and playgroup settings. She also involved in the
development of local smoking in pregnancy initiatives. |
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