Co STRATEGIC DIRECTOR

Ira is a consultant and professor in occupational medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London.

She is currently Academic Dean of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, UK and was Chief Medical Advisor to the Houses of Parliament for 23 years. Her broad-ranging career has combined clinical practice, teaching, research, and policy with a career-long interest in creating evidence for, and promoting the use of, evidence-based occupational health practice. She was formerly a member of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council and chair of a NIHR, Health Technology Assessment Panel. She is co-founder and co-director of the London Centre for Work and Health and is a Scientific Trustee of the Colt Foundation.

Co STRATEGIC DIRECTOR

Paul is a retired academic respiratory physician with a long-standing interest in the distribution, determinants and prevention of occupational lung diseases. He formerly held a Chair at Imperial College and an honorary consultantship at Royal Brompton Hospital, London; and was chair of the research working group of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (DWP) and a scientific member for both the Workplace Health Expert Committee (HSE) and the Independent Medical Advisory Group (MoD).

CENTRE MANAGER

Vaughan is the centre manager and an honorary senior research fellow in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. Since 2013, Vaughan has been responsible for the operational management and delivery of occupational research studies taking part across the NHS.

THEME LEAD

Sharon is interested in help-seeking behaviour, occupational functioning and the evaluation of interventions among those with mental health problems. She is an NIHR Advanced Fellowship holder aiming to understand the impacts of the UK welfare system on people with mental health problems. She is (co-) leading numerous studies in military populations and other occupational groups.

THEME LEAD

Jo is an Honorary Respiratory Consultant at Royal Brompton Hospital and Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College. She is Chair of the British Thoracic Society Specialist Advisory Group on Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease and a member of the Group of Occupational Respiratory Disease Specialists (GORDS).

THEME LEAD

Danielle is a senior research fellow in the NIHR ARC (North Thames), Department for Applied Health Research at UCL. She is the Principle Investigator for the CHECK study, looking at ‘Long Covid’ in healthcare workers, and a Co-Investigator on the NHS CHECK study. She supervises several PhD students whose projects look at mental health in a variety of workplaces.

THEME LEAD

Lisa is a clinical academic physiotherapist. She works as a clinical lecturer in hand therapy at Queen Mary University of London, and as a hand therapist at Barts Health NHS Trust. Lisa leads a programme of research exploring work and upper limb musculoskeletal conditions. Lisa is also involved in growing clinical academic careers for allied health professionals.

THEME LEAD

Georgia is a senior research fellow at MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton. She is a medical statistician working in epidemiological research. Her main interests are the epidemiology of occupational musculoskeletal pain, and the effects that an individual’s health status during later stages of their working life can have on work ability.

THEME LEAD

Jo is passionate about understanding what needs to be in place to enable people to start, stay in and return to work, particularly during times of challenge. She is a Professor of Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London and Managing Partner of Affinity Health at Work, a research and consultancy organisation. She collaborates with industry and academic partners, contributes to national guidance and publishes widely to share new knowledge, evidence and tools to promote and sustain health and wellbeing at work.

EXPERT ADVISOR (Mental health epidemiology)

Professor of Epidemiology, Director of the King’s Centre for Military Health Research, Chair of the Psychological Medicine PhD sub-committee. Currently working at King's Centre for Military Health Research and the Academic Department of Military Mental Health, Psychological Medicine.

EXPERT ADVISOR (Occupational psychiatry)

Neil is a consultant academic and forensic psychiatrist based at King’s College London. Neil served in the Armed Forces for more than 23 years. He has been the Secretary of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the President of the UK Psychological Trauma Society and Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee.

EXPERT ADVISOR (Policy)

Alexandra is Director of Research at the Policy Institute, King’s College London. Her main focus areas are health, mental health, science policy, and the effective use of evidence in policymaking. Alex has taught research methods, policy engagement, communications and impact assessment, has supported research funders internationally in the development of impact evaluation frameworks and tools.