Our Team

Professor Chris Gidlow

Academic Director

Dr Naomi Ellis

Associate Director

Fiona McCormack

Research Officer

Dr Victoria Riley

Research Officer

Ian Pitts

Communications Officer

Professor Jon Fairburn

Centre Member

Professor Siân Griffiths OBE

Independent Chair

Dr Nigel Thomas

Dean of School of Life Sciences and Education

Professor Zafar Iqbal

MBBS DCH MRCGP FFPHM

Associate Medical Director Public Health, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Founding Member of CHAD

Professor Aliko Ahmed

Director of PHE for the East of England

Founding Member of CHAD

Dr Richard Harling

Director of Health and Care, Staffordshire County Council

Mona Fouad M.D., M.P.H.

Director, Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center, University of Alabama, Birmingham

David Kidney

Chief Executive, UK Public Health Register

Soili Larkin

Consultant in Public Health (Healthcare Public Health and Workforce) at Public Health England

Professor Elizabeth Boath

Professor of Professor of Health and Wellbeing, Staffordshire University

Dr Karen Rodham

Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, University of Chichester

Professor Peter Kevern

Professor in Values in Health and Social Care, Staffordshire University

Professor Marc Jones

Professor of Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University

Judy Kurth

Public Health Manager – Health Inequalities, Public Health England

Dr Rachel Massie

Research Fellow, Institute for Community Research and Development, University of Wolverhampton

Dr Jackie Forsyth

Associate Professor of Exercise Physiology, Staffordshire University

Dr Rachel Povey

Associate Professor in Health Psychology, Staffordshire University

Dr Marcus Chilaka

Senior Tutor in Health and Social Care, University of Bedfordshire

Professor Mike Dent

Emeritus Professor, Staffordshire University

Richard Machin

Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Health, Nottingham Trent University

Dr Rachel Bolton-King

Associate Professor of Forensic Science, Staffordshire University.

Ana Francis

Associate Professor in Fine Art and Social Practices, Staffordshire University

Professor Patrick Saunders

Professor in Public Health, University of Birmingham

Dr Jim Radcliffe,

Honorary Fellow, School of Health and Social Care

Mr. Geoff Heath

Honorary Fellow in Public Sector Accounting, Keele Management School,  Keele University