Building like fury: joining up to level up - Building Back Healthier Tuesday, 8th June 2021, 11:30am - 1:00pm (UK) HOSTS Michael Salter-Church MBE, Director of External Affairs & Policy, Openreach After a career in Westminster, including serving as a Special Advisor in No10 to David Cameron (where he led on broadcasting and equal marriage), Michael served as Head of Public Affairs for Sainsburys (including through their acquisition of Argos) before joining Openreach where he leads on engagement with the national Governments and stakeholders. He founded LGBT+ Pride in London and led the volunteer team as it became the third largest annual one-day event in the capital. The work of the volunteers was recognised with the award of The Queen’s Award for Volunteering. He is a member of the organising committee for the Ultimate News Quiz, the leading annual fundraising event for two charities, Action for Children and Restless Development, and is an elected member of the governing Council of the National Trust. Will Black, Head of Policy, Openreach Will has been Head of Policy at Openreach for three years leading on engagement with Government policy makers, trade bodies and third parties. He also leads on research, including the study that showed there could be a £59 billion boost to productivity if the UK had a full fibre broadband network. His previous roles include Senior Policy Advisor at the Federation of Small Businesses. Will studied History and Politics at Oxford University. CHAIR Neal Lawson, Partner, Jericho Chambers Neal is Director of the good society pressure group Compass and was author of All Consuming (Penguin, 2009) and co-editor of The Progressive Century (Palgrave, 2001). He serves on the Advisory Board of the social democracy journal Renewal which he helped found. He writes on sites such as the Guardian, New Statesman, Prospect and Open Democracy. He has worked as a trade union researcher, an advisor to Gordon Brown and ran a communications company. He is a partner at the progressive communicators Jericho Chambers where he works on the global responsible tax project. Neal has been described by the late Zygmunt Bauman as “one of the most insightful and inventive minds on the British political stage”, elsewhere as “the most optimistic commentator in western Europe” and as the “Eyore of the left” by the Sunday Times. RAPPORTEUR Matthew Gwyther, Partner, Jericho Chambers Matthew edited Management Today for 17 years and during that time won the coveted BSME Business Magazine Editor of the year on a record five occasions. During a fifteen-year career as a freelance, he wrote for the Sunday Times magazine, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Observer, GQ and was a contributing editor to Business magazine. Matthew is the main presenter on BBC Radio 4’s In Business programme.
CONTRIBUTORS Ahmed Adbulla, CEO, Digipharm Bio coming soon… Alan Davies, Director of Innovative Programmes and Partnerships, Health Education England Alan is the Director of Innovation Programmes and Partnerships within the newly established Innovation, Transformation & Digital Directorate. Alan’s responsibility at Health Education England is to establish and build collaborative partnerships and explore the spread of new workforce programs between system partners (at national, regional and local level) and Health Education England. His areas of interest & responsibility span the directorate including workforce transformation, digital readiness, XR/VR/immersive learning, patient safety, genomics and AI & robotics. Prior to joining Heath Education England, Alan was the Director of Digital Health for the Innovation Agency (NWC AHSN) / ex-Deputy-Chair of the Digital & AI INN (the AHSN Network Anna Dixon, CEO, Centre for Ageing Better Anna is the Chief Executive of the Centre for Ageing Better, an independent charity that brings about lasting changes in society so more people can enjoy later life. Anna joined the organisation in September 2015 and has taken it from start-up to become an established organisation. Anna is author of The Age of Ageing Better? A Manifesto for Our Future. Prior to joining Ageing Better, Anna was Director of Strategy and Chief Analyst at the Department of Health from 2013-2015. She has also held positions as Director of Policy at The King’s Fund, Lecturer in European Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, policy analyst at the Department of Health Strategy Unit (2003-04). In 2005-6 she was awarded a Harkness Fellowship in Health Policy by the Commonwealth Fund of New York which she spent at the University of Oregon. She has a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Rosemary Kay, Project Director, Liverpool 5G Testbed at eHealth Cluster Rosemary is a director of the Liverpool based eHealth Cluster, bringing together organisations across technology, Health and Social Care sectors. Rosemary is also the Project Director for the Liverpool 5G Create Connecting Health and Social Care project which is part of the DCMS 5G Testbed and Trials Programme.
Kwame Lowe, Social Programmes Manager Kwame is Social Programmes Manager at Publica, where he is designing a new programme of social engagement for Oxford Street District. He has an MSc in Urban Design & City Planning from the Bartlett School of Planning and a Diploma in Community Organising from Newman University. He is also a member of Design Council’s network of experts.
Mavis Machirori, Senior Researcher, Ada Lovelace Institute Mavis is a Senior Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute, focusing on projects at the intersection of data-driven systems and digital technologies and their wider health and social impacts. The approaches to her work combine broad clinical, theoretical and practical knowledge and insights of ethical and societal concerns. of practices governance. Mavis is interested in issues of inequalities and power dynamics that impact people’s experiences of health and care; and considers ways to ensure marginalised voices are heard. Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Head of Blended Learning, Health Education England Henrietta is the Head of Blended Learning and the Digital Literacy Project Lead at Health Education England. She was previously the Topol Review Project Lead and a Clinical Nursing Fellow.She is a Registered Mental Health Nurse, a Darzi Fellow Alumni and an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur. She was a visiting nursing lecturer at City University, London and is currently a visiting lecturer at University College London. Andrew Russell, Growth Director, Nyby Andrew has spent over a decade working with politicians, global companies and startups advising on communications, government relations and growth strategy. He has worked for brands including McDonald’s and Pearson and now invests in and consults with TechforGood start-ups including Nyby, a collaboration platform for public and third sector organisations to connect citizens and build communities, which currently works with 50 local governments across Scandinavia. Andrew has degrees in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge and King’s College London and is a Trustee of The Philosophy Foundation. Steve Sadler, TSA Associate – Technology Strategy Steve has led the delivery of large-scale programmes in technology enabled care for over 20 years, and has operated as research and development director, CTO and board director.He now provides strategic support to the health, care and telecommunications sectors. As a TSA Associate, Steve leads on Technology Strategy and Business Strategy and supports the TSA Quality Improvement Programme.Previously, Steve operated as Head of Research for a large mental health trust and has spent much of his career delivering safety and life critical systems, originally in the nuclear, rail and aero transport industries before moving into telecare and health monitoring systems. Emma Stone, Director of Design, Research & Communications, Good Things Foundation Bio coming soon …
Richard Sloggett, Founder, Future Health Richard is the Founder and Programme Director of Future Health, a global healthcare policy research centre. He was previously a Senior Fellow at Westminster’s leading think tank Policy Exchange and from 2018-19 was Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. Richard is a regular commentator in the national media on health and social care and has been named as one of the top 100 people in UK healthcare policy by the Health Service Journal.