All PHAST courses are delivered by trained professionals with particular skills and knowledge applicable to the course content. All courses are quality assured and are to the highest standard. Please see below for further information about a selection of our current trainers.
Matthew Almond
Matthew has worked at The Centre for Workplace Health since 2010. Prior to joining The Centre Matthew provided consultancy services to New Leaf, Right Corecare and Vielife as well as providing front line delivery of workplace health programmes to DWP – the largest workplace health project in Europe. He has been involved in research for EUNAPPA, Sport England and The Welsh Assembly.
Matthew is currently working with PHAST to deliver the Workplace Health programme.
Anthea Cooke
Anthea is a Director of Inukshuk Consultancy whose aim is to support partnerships in achieving their goals to promote health and well-being. She is an Associate of the London Health Observatory (LHO) and of the Oxford Public Health Resource Unit advising on Health Impact Assessment (HIA). Until recently she was a Trustee for Aqua -Terra Leisure – a charity promoting access to leisure and community development.
She co-led, developed and facilitated training on HIA for the LHO and is a visiting trainer for the IMPACT (University of Liverpool) HIA training programme. She has led numerous HIA programmes, ranging from rapid to comprehensive ones. These include New Deal for Communities Delivery Plans, Primary Care Service Provision, Town Centre re-development, Healthy Living Centres and others.
She is a co-consultant working on a project to promote Mental Well-being Impact Assessment (MWIA) funded by the National Mental Health Development Unit (NMHDU). This is a national programme and includes a training element. She co-developed and is a key author of the MWIA toolkit published in 2007 by Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP). This toolkit is now being updated and is due for publication by the NMHDU. This unique toolkit has been well received internationally and nationally. For example, she presented MWIA to the Ministry of Health and other government departments in New Zealand. She co-developed and facilitates training and implementation of MWIA, as well as evaluating the process.
Anthea is currently delivering the Health Impact Assessment workshop and her work is published on hiagateway.org.uk.
Eugenia Cronin
Dr Eugenia Cronin is a consultant in public health and former director of public health in North London. She has worked in and around the NHS, local government and academia in England since 1995, and prior to this worked in health service commissioning, alcohol and drug policy and health insurance in Australia. Her PhD is in health services research, specifically primary care mental health. In addition to her role with PHAST, Eugenia is Consultant Advisor to the Health Services Research Board of the National Institute for Health Research. She is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and Royal Society for Public Health, and visiting international fellow to the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute in Canberra.
Whilst working with Greenwich Council, Eugenia jointly developed the Beacon Award-winning Health: Everyone's Business course, designed for senior staff of local authorities. She currently delivers this for organisations throughout the UK helping them to recognise and act on opportunities to improve population health through their core services. She also delivers population needs assessment training for public health and other professional disciplines. Her consultancy support tends to be in the areas of organisational and leadership development, in the context of a changing public health and public sector environment.
Eugenia is currently delivering the Health: Everyone’s Business and the JSNA workshops.
Charlie Davison
Charlie holds a D. Phil in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford. He has over 20 years experience in service development, research, public consultation, training and facilitation across a wide range of health and social care settings. He is the Principal Researcher on the PEBL (Patient Experience Blogs) patient experience project at NHS West Essex R&D Department and is a Fellow of the School of Health & Human Sciences at the University of Essex. His specialist areas are public engagement, patient experience, healthcare research design and research methods training.
Charlie is currently delivering the Engaging with Local Communities workshop and developing an e-Learning module in Engaging with Local Communities.
Jeremy Francis
From a background in Training and Development within leading British and American banks in 1982 Jeremy became a self-employed Human Resource Development Consultant working with blue chip corporates including Shell, Kimberly Clarke and Pfizer. He founded Rhema Group in 1985 with the aim of providing customised human resource development solutions through the use of consultancy, instructor led training, coaching, psychometric assessments and online learning and development resources.
Jeremy's main involvement with organisations is at senior management levels in large and complex projects. These projects have included: creation and roll out of a Strategy for Pharmacists Scotland; Change Management Programme; delivery of Leadership and Change Management Training for the Children, Families and Education Directorate of Kent County Council; a comprehensive review of Defence Training Establishments for the MOD resulting in a paper used at Prime Minister's Question Time as well as many more.
Jeremy is currently delivering modules on the Improving Capacity and Capability across a diverse public health workforce course.
Tanya Grand
Tanya Grand graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada with an undergraduate degree in Exercise and Sport Science and a Masters degree in Health Promotion. Prior to moving to London, Tanya spent 6 years working in public health gaining experience in both the research and public sector settings in positions such as Health Promotion Analyst for the Ministry of Health and Manager of Healthy Schools for the Ministry of Education. Tanya was also involved in the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Vancouver, BC. In the UK, Tanya continued her career in public health at NHS Kensington and Chelsea as the Public Health Development Manager and is now working as an independent consultant delivering public health training courses in London.
Tanya is currently delivering on The Art and Science of Behaviour Change: Nudging People Towards Better Health.
David Lawrence
David is a Senior Consultant in Public Health with much experience in various specialised fields of public health, notably health informatics, health needs assessment, commissioning (especially ophthalmology services), whole systems planning, training in public health and academic public health-research and teaching. David has a record of imaginative innovation and successful implementation of a variety of healthcare planning projects, both in development and implementation. He has led a project for PHAST, which delivered a series of Web-based interactive prevalence models of eye care for a consortium of optometry organisations, with the support of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.
David is a Cochrane Library Systematic Review author (Ophthalmology), Cochrane Eye Group reviewer and the public health lead on the North West London Ophthalmology Clinical Network.
As an honorary senior lecturer in health services research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he is active in research, teaching and university policy and curriculum development. David uses knowledge and skills from research experience to provide evidence-based public health practice and passes this on through teaching and training. David also peer-reviews for several journals, including the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, ‘Public Health’ and ‘Eye.’
David is the FPH Part A Revision Course Director. He delivers the Health Services Planning in a GP Consortia Environment and several other PHAST training programmes.
Sally Markwell
Sally is a recognised specialist within the field of public health and multi-sectoral partnership development and over the last 15 years has offered a variety of consultancies and academic training to local, national and international organisations within local government, the NHS and universities. She is currently Director of Partnerwell, which offers bespoke training and support to a wide range of organizations within the public and not-for-profit sectors focusing upon public health policy, partnership and programme development.
Previous consultancies with the Health Development Agency, Welsh Assembly Government and La Trobe University Melbourne have led to the design and publication of a range of guides, toolkits and workbooks supporting policy development, collaborative working and action research. Recent clients include: Department of Health, PHAST, South Central SHA, NHS Lambeth, NHS Tower Hamlets and University of Southampton. Sally currently works as an Associate Lecturer in Public Health in the School of Health and Social Care at Oxford Brookes University.
Sally is currently delivering modules on the Improving Capacity and Capability across a diverse public health workforce course.
Les Mayhew
Les is Professor of Statistics at Cass Business School, Faculty of Actuarial Sciences and Insurance. He is a former senior civil servant and graduate of the Government’s Top Management Programme, with nearly 20 years of experience working across Government Departments. He is a long-standing Associate Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Vienna, one of the top research centers for demography and ageing in the world, to which he was seconded by the Royal Society between 1980 and 1982. He is a former Director of Operational Research in the DSS, a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and Honorary Fellow of Institute of Actuaries.
His international experience includes spells at the Department for Mathematics at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, and at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (IRES) in Turin, Italy. He has also undertaken research assignments on pensions and health care in Russia, China, Japan and Australia. His research interests include adult social care, hospital admission avoidance, health prevention, health care expenditure, pension demography and the use of local administrative data for estimating populations and planning services.
Les is currently delivering on the Health Services Planning in a GP Consortia Environment.
Keith Meadows
Keith has held a number of senior academic and UK NHS research positions undertaking consultancy and research with the pharmaceutical industry and universities both in the UK and across much of Europe. Prior to setting up DHP Research & Consultancy, Keith was Associate Director of the North East London Consortium for Research & Development (NELCRAD) where he was responsible for strategy development, capacity building and increasing primary care research across east London. Keith has a PhD in Psychology from the University of London and lectures at undergraduate and post graduate levels on questionnaire design and quality of life at the University of Brighton, Queen Mary College, University of London and City University. Keith has published widely as well as presented papers at major conferences. Keith's specialist areas include, patient reported outcome measurement, psychological aspects of living with diabetes, Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) patient experience, research design and training in research methods. Keith is also an Associate of the Market Research Society.
Keith is currently delivering the Patient Reported Outcome Measures workshop and developing e-Learning in PROM’s and Nursing CPD modules.
David Murray
David is an Operational Director for PHAST. He specialises in public health intelligence/analysis, health economics, health technology appraisal, evaluation of health services & programmes, and project management. He is an honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College London and is head of Monitoring and Evaluation for Right to Sight, an eye care charity working in Africa. David has 18 years public health experience working in NHS Health Authorities, PCG's, PCT's, at the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), and is an independent consultant.
David is currently delivering the Health Services Planning module: Maximising patient care within available resources and the Introduction to Health Economics workshop.
Jane Silk
Jane is a qualified senior marketing professional who has worked in marketing and branding for over 20 years. Before running her own company she was senior brand manager at Lloyds TSB Group; working on the launch of the brand following the Lloyds Bank and TSB merger and its wider group brands. She has been a marketing and brand consultant for national portfolios, including Scottish Widows, Cheltenham & Gloucester, Boots, Marks & Spencer, Mercedes Benz, Daimler Chrysler, Toyota, Kawasaki, Sainsbury's, Thomson Holidays, Bourne Leisure Group, Barclays Stockbrokers, the Tourist Board and Transport 2000.
Jane has directed and developed successful teams to deliver strategic business plans, with a strong focus on managing the impact of brand communications and change management for employees and customers. She has a wide ranging experience in strategic project management, training, coaching and focus group facilitation.
Jane is currently delivering the Introduction to Effective Bid Writing and the Introduction to Effective Report Writing workshops.
Sarah Spencer-Bowdage
Sarah has worked at The Centre for Workplace Health since 2007, project coordinating Activate your Workplace and project managing WorksWell Harrow. Prior to joining the Centre for Workplace Health, Sarah worked as an NHS smoking cessation facilitator and an assistant psychologist in the NHS pain management unit. She is interested in behaviour change and managing chronic illness in the workplace. She is a trainer for Royal Society of Public Health, level 2 Understanding Health Improvement training and level 1, health awareness training.
Sarah is currently working with PHAST to deliver the Workplace Health programme.
