Service Model
PHAST operates on a managed consultancy model with a core team of Operational Directors and project management staff. The PHAST core team ensures consistency of output and methodology, both within and between projects. It delivers robust project management and quality assurance to ensure high quality timely outputs and appropriate transparent methodologies.
The Board
Dr. Catherine Brogan
MBBS MSc FFPH
Chief Executive
Catherine has honorary position at University College, London. She was a director of public health in London for over ten years
Catherine has honorary position at University College, London. She was a director of public health in London for over ten years and faculty advisor for London from 2001-2006. She was in general practice in Oxford. Catherine’s research includes patient assessed outcomes using cataract surgery as an example, out of hours health and social care services cost and activity, and tools to decide thresholds for intervention. She led the Informing Healthier Choices Programme for the department of health. Catherine is involved in several charities that improve health in UK and internationally. She was a flying doctor and director of Mother and Child Health Services in the Sultanate of Oman for 9 years.
Professor Sue Atkinson
CBE BSc MB BChir MA FFPH
Chair
Sue is a visiting professor at UCL, a non-executive director of UCLH and a board member of the Food Standards Agency.
Sue is a visiting professor at UCL, a non-executive director of UCLH and a board member of the Food Standards Agency. She was regional director of Public Health for London and developed the role as health advisor to the Mayor and Great London Authority. She had responsibility for the health aspects of the Olympic and Paralympic 2012 bid. She was the Department of Health lead for Sustainable Communities. In 2012 she was awarded a Tisch Fellowship at Hunter College New York comparing public health measures in UK and US. She has worked at local, regional, national and international levels.
Lauren Parsons
MEng (Hons)
Deputy CEO
Laurens career is marked by exceptional achievements in healthcare, including delivering cost savings ranging from £1 million to £20 million.
Lauren is a highly accomplished transformation leader. Her career is marked by exceptional achievements in healthcare, including delivering cost savings ranging from £1 million to £20 million, increasing revenue by over £10 million, and overseeing the successful administration of more than 1 million COVID-19 vaccinations.
With a talent for motivating and driving teams in challenging healthcare environments, Lauren’s exceptional interpersonal skills and communication abilities consistently yield outstanding results. Her passion for healthcare transformation drives her to lead, build, and improve organisations from within, firmly believing in the power of immersed leadership to catalyze positive change in the healthcare sector.
Mr. Jan Bergman
IHM
Non-Executive Director
Jan has in excess of 25 years NHS and private sector board experience including 10 years as a successful NHS Foundation Trust Chief Executive.
Jan has in excess of 25 years NHS and private sector board experience including 10 years as a successful NHS Foundation Trust Chief Executive, of two hospitals. This included taking Queen Victoria Hospital to be the top performing NHS foundation trust in England in respect of NHS quality and performing metrics at that time.
Jan currently works on a part time basis supporting NHS boards on strategy development and governance. He is a specialist Adviser with the Care Quality Commission and a Senior Visiting Lecturer with Imperial College, London.
Ronald Lyn Jones
FCCA, MiMgt, MIC; MHFMA
Non-Executive Director
Ron is a retired accountant who has worked at Coopers & Lybrand, in the NHS, local Government and in manufacturing.
Ron is a retired accountant who has worked at Coopers & Lybrand, in the NHS, Local Government and in manufacturing as European Director of Finance and Administration and as a Finance Director in central government. He has a proven track record in achieving significant improvement in productivity and improving financial performance in both public and private sectors in the UK and overseas. He has substantial experience in strategy development and implementation of business plans to improve the effectiveness and profitability of organisations.
He is a non- executive director of PHAST CiC and a charity trustee of Action for Sustainable Communities Foundation.
Strategic Directors
Dr Cecilia Pyper
MBBS MRCS LRCP MFPH
Strategic Director
Cecilia is a medical doctor and a member of the Faculty of Public Health.
Cecilia is a medical doctor and a member of the Faculty of Public Health. She has over 25 years experience working as a GP, Academic Researcher in the Department of Public Health and as a University Tutor in the University of Oxford; she also a psychodynamic psychotherapist. Cecilia Pyper has previously worked as a consultant to: the United States Agency for International Development (USAID); the Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University, Washington DC; She has led evaluations internationally that addressed community engagement and participation in rural and urban settings. Follow-up evaluation focussed on community engagement sustainability issues. The learning from this evaluation was disseminated as a training manual and cascade international training of trainers. She lectures internationally on topics related to primary care, reproductive health and electronic health records. She has also work with DEMOS & IPPR on issues addressing patient empowerment and human resource allocation in the NHS. She worked on an 18month contract for NpfIT as National Clinical Lead to the Connected Patient Programme.
Dr Graham Bickler
BA, MBBS, FFPH
Strategic Director
Graham trained in General Practice and Public Health and has had a wide range of senior public health leadership roles.
Graham trained in General Practice and Public Health and has had a wide range of senior public health leadership roles in the National Health Service, Department of Health, Health Protection Agency (HPA) and Public Health England (PHE).
He was a Director of Public Health from 1996 to 2003, a Health Protection Agency Regional Director from 2004 to 2013, and a Public Health England Centre Director from 2013 to 2015. These covered the breadth of public health practice.
He was a member of the GMC’s Fitness to Practice Committees for several years and has considerable expertise in climate change, health and sustainable development and the organisation of health protection services.
Within PHAST he has undertaken evaluations and needs assessments of large health improvement programmes, and helped develop public health capacity and capability in a non-health sector organisation
Mr. Peter Gluckman BA MSc Hon MFPH
Strategic Director
Peter is a PHAST Director, leading on new services development. He works with a wide range of health and social care organisations.
Peter is a PHAST Director, leading on new services development. He works with a wide range of health and social care organisations. Peter specialises in working with groups and organisations to resolve conflict and to promote effective collaboration to achieve the best outcome for service users, communities and populations. He has served on boards of NHS organisations for 21 years and has worked with the Department of Health, the NHS, and charitable associations. Peter has led the development of various models of GP commissioning from fund holding, through total purchasing to primary care led commissioning. Recently he has worked with two London based GP consortia to assist their progress to pathfinder status. He was director of commissioning across acute services, mental health, children’s and older people’s services. Recently Peter chaired the board that created the only integrated acute hospital, community health and adult social care service in England working throughout with GPs in developing new patient pathways to underpin the new organisation’s service model. Peter also has extensive experience of working with patient’s organisations, charitable bodies, voluntary associations and Black and ethnic minority organisations. Prior to the NHS, Peter worked for 12 years with local government in social care and housing and has extensive experience of working with the Third Sector.
Sarah Seager
Strategic Director
Sarah has built her career over the last 25+ years within healthcare analytics and biostatistics
Sarah has built her career over the last 25+ years within healthcare analytics and biostatistics – conducting large scale analytics within Public Health, leading in data management both for the Department of Health and the General Medical Council, as well as designing and implementing data lakes and the creation of a new Data Science function for one of the largest UK Private Medical Insurance companies. Sarah leads a global team of Data Scientists within the life sciences industry, leveraging global retrospective observational research across the globe’s healthcare setting. Sarah has been a PHAST associate since its inception and has worked on many projects ranging from health needs assessments to health equity audits as well as leading on survey design and analysis and specialising in geospatial analysis.
Mr. Reetoo (Ricky) Banarsee MBA BSc (Hons) MSc RMN RGN
Strategic Director
Ricky is a director of West London Primary Care Research Network (WeLReN). He is a research fellow at Imperial College and a senior fellow at Thames Valley University and adjunct professor at University of Mauritius.
Ricky is a director of West London Primary Care Research Network (WeLReN). He is a research fellow at Imperial College and a senior fellow at Thames Valley University and adjunct professor at University of Mauritius. He is involved in a number of international projects involving the Department for International Development (DFID), EU, OAU programmes. He has expertise in clinical audit , clinical coding and research management. He has worked for many years in clinical, educational, management and research environments.
Meet our Trainers
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.
