Dr Alison Tedstone is Deputy Director with responsibility for diet, nutrition, obesity and physical activity in the Health Improvement Directorate of Public Health England (PHE). Her teams work areas include the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, nutrient composition of foods, scientific advice on nutrition (including the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition), and advice on nutrition and actions to improve diet, including work underpinning the government’s Childhood Obesity Plan with the food industry to reduce the sugar, salt and calorie content of everyday foods and promotion of Physical activity. The division also coordinates, across PHE, a programme of work aimed at tackling the nation’s obesity problem which supports national and local level delivery, including actions aimed at improving systems leadership and addressing the environmental causes of obesity. Alison transferred with other nutrition colleagues from the Department of Health in 2013 and before that from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in 2010. Before joining the FSA, in 2001, Alison was an academic at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Alison completed post doctorate research in Oxford and is a registered public health nutritionist.
Twitter: @PHE_uk

Emma Boyland is an experimental psychologist and senior lecturer based at the University of Liverpool, with 15 years of experience in eating behaviour research. Her work principally focuses on the food environment, characterising the foods and beverages available and the way they are marketed via traditional and new digital means, as well as seeking to understand how this impacts eating behaviours (choice and intake) and determinants of eating behaviour (beliefs, attitudes, preferences), particularly in children. She has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and 8 book chapters on this topic, as well as being a contributing author on three World Health Organization reports on food marketing. Dr Boyland has twice been invited to give oral evidence to the UK Parliament’s Health and Social Care Committee inquiries into childhood obesity that directly inform the Childhood Obesity Plan for the UK.

Twitter: @EmmaBoyland

Prof Amandine Garde is Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Law & NCD Unit at the University of Liverpool. She is a leading expert on the role that legal instruments can play in promoting health. She regularly advises international organisations, EU institutions, NGOs, governments and public health agencies worldwide.

Twitter: @AmandineGarde

Director of Transformation and Systems Change at Platfform (a mental health and social change charity) Charlotte has worked in the social care and supported housing sectors for several years, working initially as a practitioner before moving to senior and strategic roles. As a Social Worker she worked in Children’s Services, substance misuse and homelessness. Going on to the University of South Wales as Programme Leader of Social Work, she co-authored evaluations of the Integrated Family Support Service, Families First and programme evaluations for the Care Council for Wales. More recently working for the Wales Adverse Childhood Experience Hub, she has led on the national roll out of Psychologically Informed Environments. Charlotte has a long track record of working successfully on a cross sector level to develop new and remodel existing services as well as influencing policy direction locally and nationally.

Twitter: @charlotwaite

Charlotte graduated from the University of Dundee in 2001. Following posts in general dental practice, dental hospital and community dentistry, she spent a year as a locum in Australia. On returning to the UK, she accepted an MFDS training post in a community dental service and completed MFDS. Over the following years she gained experience in CDS and has worked as a band B dentist for a number of years. She has enjoyed a career in the community dental service for the past 16 years. She has also been involved with representative committees within the British Dental Association for the past 12 years and is the current Chair of the BDA England Community Dental Services Committee.

Twitter: @w8charlotte

Dr. Aideen Naughton MB BCh BAO FRCPCH MRCP (Ireland) is a Consultant Community Paediatrician and Service lead of the National Safeguarding Team with Public Health Wales NHS Trust (PHW), providing collaborative leadership across NHS Wales to improve safeguarding of children and adults at risk. She is a Clinical Research Fellow (Hon) within the Division of Population Medicine of Cardiff University and led on three systematic reviews on the features of neglect and emotional abuse in preschool, school aged children and adolescents. Aideen continues her research interest in attachment and promoting infant mental health: in ABUHB she co delivers a community based infant parent psychotherapy intervention for parents and their children aged 0-3, while in PHW She has been instrumental in the development of a National Framework for Infant Mental Health. Aideen has completed a study evaluating the potential for using an observation tool of parent infant interaction in the first two weeks of life. She is currently working on a data linkage study of outcomes and resilience factors in children at risk of child abuse and neglect. Aideen qualified from University College Dublin in 1985 and then worked in Ireland, Great Britain, the Sudan and Vietnam. She moved to Wales from London in May 2000.

Dr Hannah Barham-Brown is a junior doctor, BMA Council member, and disability advocate. She is a member of a number of BMA committees, including their Medical Ethics Committee, and is one of three BMA representatives on the Steering Group for the national Review of the Gender Pay Gap in Medicine.
Before studying Medicine at St George’s, University of London, she graduated from Durham University with a BA Hons in Combined Arts, and from Northumbria University with a BSc Hons in Paediatric Nursing. She is an Ambassador of disability charity ‘My AFK’, and gynaecological cancer charity, ‘The Eve Appeal’, and has given two TEDx talks on the need for diversity in the NHS, and being a #RollModel. In 2019, she stood as a Council and EU Parliamentary Candidate for the Women’s Equality Party. She campaigns for disability rights on a number of fronts, including wheelchair funding, public transport access and making Primary Care facilities more accessible for hoist users. Hannah travels the country giving talks and regularly appears in a range of media outlets.
Hannah was named on the Shaw Trust’s 2018 ‘Power List’ – making her one of the 100 most Influential Disabled People in the UK, and runs a Period Poverty campaign, ‘Help In Handbags’ out of her cottage in Yorkshire.
Twitter: @HannahPopsy

Dr. Lola Solebo is an NIHR Clinician Scientist within the Vision and Eyes Group, and Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London

Lola’s research is on the determinants of outcomes for children with eye disease, and how we translate these findings into practice and policy for affected children and families.

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Prof. Julian Pine is a Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Liverpool and Director of the ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD) at the Universities of Liverpool, Manchester and Lancaster. He has been conducting research on children’s language development for over 30 years and has published extensively on how children learn to talk both in English and in a variety of other languages, including Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Polish and Spanish. His research focuses on early vocabulary, morphological and grammatical development, and on how parents can support their children’s language learning.
Twitter: @LuCiD_Centre

Sally is a Consultant Paediatric Dentist at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Westmead Centre for Oral Health, in Sydney, Australia.

She completed her BDS at Liverpool in 1986 and after receiving her Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh was employed as lecturer in Paediatric Dentistry at the University of Liverpool, a post she held until moving to Sydney in 2002.

Whilst in Liverpool, Sally was conferred an MPhil for an investigation into genetic markers for cleft lip and palate, and completed the UK Specialist Training Pathway in Paediatric Dentistry, being awarded the Intercollegiate Speciality Fellowship in 2002.

Sally has lectured widely in the UK, Ireland and Australasia on the issues of management of anxiety in children and use of hypnosis, dental trauma and care of the primary dentition.

Current research interests include the dental management of children with complex medical co-morbidities and development of effective paediatric transition pathways.
Sally has embraced life “Down Under”, but has never forgotten her roots and tries to get back to the UK and her beloved Lake District whenever possible.