Keynote speakers
Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing
Progress Through Partnerships
17th and 18th May
Royal Horticultural Halls Conference Centre
Greycoat Street, London SW1P 2PE
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From 1980-86 Rosie
Winterton was Constituency Personal Assistant to John Prescott MP; she
was Parliamentary
Officer for Southwark Council
from 1986-88 and for the Royal College of Nursing from 1988-90; Managing
Director of Connect Personal Affairs from 1990-94 and was Head of Office
for John Prescott MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1994-97. Between 2001 and June 2003 Rosie Winterton
was Parliamentary Secretary at the Lord Chancellor’s Department.
She is currently Minister of State for Health Services at the Department
of Health, having served
as Minister of State at the Department since June 2003.
Rosie has been Member of Parliament for Doncaster Central since 1997.
She was educated at Doncaster Grammar School and Hull University where
she was awarded a BA (Hons) in History. |
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Dr. Fiona Adshead is one of two Deputy
Chief Medical Officers in the Department of Health’s Health and
Social Standards Quality Group, which is headed by Sir Liam Donaldson. In
this capacity, her role is to help develop policies and implement programmes
in key public health areas, such as tackling inequalities,
prevention of cancer and heart disease, tobacco control, substance misuse,
sexual health and nutrition. She led with the Chief Medical Officer in
developing the Public Health White Paper, published in November 2004
and the delivery plan published in March 2005.
Before taking up her current post Dr. Adshead was also a Policy Adviser
to the Faculty of Public Health and a Trustee of the National Heart Forum.
She is married and lives in south London. In her spare time, she enjoys
gardening, fine art and travel. |
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Phill Chick is a qualified Social Worker with twenty two years experience
in social services and the NHS.
His experience in social work practice includes child care, child protection
and generic assessment work but the majority of his operational experience
has been in the field of mental health including work as an Approved
Social Worker. He has experience in operational management and commissioning
in LocaI Government having commissioned mental health and substance misuse
services for a Local Authority.
More recently he held the lead for the strategic planning of mental
health services within Bro Taf Health Authority and now works for two
days per week as a mental health specialist within the National Public
Health Service for Wales.
In June of 2003 he was appointed three days per week as the Director
of Mental Health within the Welsh Assembly Government working with Welsh
Assembly Officials and mental health services to deliver the Welsh Mental
Health National Service Framework.
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Anne Clarke has been the Director of HeadsUpScotland, the (Scottish)
National Project for Children and Young People’s Mental Health since
May 2004. This post has allowed Anne to develop her interest in promoting
mental health and preventing the mental ill-health of children and young
people, while working across the wide range of agencies who have a role
to play in supporting that work. This post allows Anne to use her experience
of partnership working, an approach Anne has used over many years working
in Health Promotion and Public Health. This Public Health interest culminated
in a post as Director of a Community Planning Alliance, perhaps the ultimate
test of partnership working. HeadsUpScotland has allowed Anne to put this
experience to good use, along with experience as a mental health promotion
worker and a clinical background in both general and psychiatric nursing. |
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Elizabeth Gale is the Director of mentality, the first national organisation
and team dedicated solely to the promotion of mental health, currently
based at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health. Elizabeth is one of the
founding members of mentality, established in 2000. Previously she led
the policy development programme, supporting the effective implementation
of public mental health promotion nationally and internationally. She has
had the privilege of leading the team for three years and is enormously
proud of their individual and collective achievements.
Elizabeth has worked in mental health
for fifteen years. Previously she managed the policy programme for the
Health Education
Authority’s
(HEA) Mental Health Team. She also delivered specific programmes on the
physical health and health promotion needs of people with mental health
problems. Before the HEA she worked at the Mental Health Foundation where
she concentrated on the rights of people with learning disabilities and
those who misuse substances.
Her academic background is in law and sociology and she has a keen interest
in the human rights and civil liberties agenda. She is also a member
of the Mental Health Taskforce and a representative for England on the
IMHPA international mental health promotion programme. |
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Emma Hogg’s academic background is in psychology,
health promotion and medical sociology. Emma has worked in the Health
Promotion field in both
England and Scotland for the last 11 years. During this time Emma has held
several different positions including training coordinator, senior health
promotion specialist and research specialist and public health advisor
throughout which time she has specialised, to varying degrees, in the topic
of mental health improvement.
Emma's current position is at Health Scotland,
Scotland’s national
health improvement agency, as Programme Manager for mental health. During
her time at Health Scotland Emma has been heavily involved in the development
and delivery of the Scottish Executive’s National Programme for
Improving Mental Health and Well-being. |
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Dr Eva Jané-Llopis, WHO Regional
Office for Europe, is a specialist in mental health promotion and mental
disorder prevention. She is a consultant for several mental health government
and non-governmental international organisations and has published widely.
Dr Jane-Llopis is the Project Leader for the European IMHPA Network for
Mental Health Promotion and Mental Disorder Prevention, a partnership that
has representatives from 28 countries which is supported by WHO and the
European Commission. Since 2003 the Network has been engaged in the development
of and dissemination of evidence based strategies, in training and in the
analysis of the infrastructures and capacities necessary for the improvement
and practice of mental health promotion and the prevention of mental disorders. |
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Anne Sheridan works as Mental Health Promotion & Suicide Prevention
Officer for the HSE in the North West of Ireland. She has a background
in Social Work and Psychotherapy. She has been involved in the development
of a number of mental health promotion programmes especially targeting
young people and has recently led the development of the first regional
Mental Health Promotion Strategy in the Republic of Ireland. |
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Mark D. Weist received a Ph.D. in clinical child psychology from Virginia
Tech in 1991 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry
at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine. He has been involved
in school mental health (SMH) policy, practice, research and training since
1991. He directs the School Mental Health Program, a leading SMH program
that has grown from providing services in four to 29 Baltimore schools.
He also directs the Center for School Mental Health Analysis and Action
(CSMHA), one of two federally funded national centers that are providing
leadership to the advancement of SMH policies and programs in the United
States. Dr. Weist is leading two federally funded studies, one on quality
assessment and improvement funded by the National Institute of Mental Health
(NIMH), and one on sexual assault impacts and services funded by the National
Institute of Justice. He has been involved in and has advised research
and policy oriented committees at the federal level, has twice testified
before Congress (on violence and SMH) and presented before the President’s
New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. Dr. Weist is a charter member
of the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care (NASBHC) and was on
its original executive board. As a member of the American School Health
Association (ASHA), he assisted in establishing the Social and Mental Health
Professionals Section. He chaired a task force of the American Psychological
Association on Violence and Youth, and helped to found the International
Alliance for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Schools (INTERCAMHS).
Dr. Weist has edited three books and has published and presented widely
in the SMH field and in the areas of trauma, violence and youth, evidence-based
practice, and cognitive behavioral therapy. Mark and his wife, Amber have
five children and live on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. |
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