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Paul Mee - Chief Executive Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council
As Chief Executive, amongst other duties, Paul is responsible for setting the strategic vision and direction of the Council with the Council’s Leader; for advising and supporting elected members and Council on the development and delivery of policy and strategy; is responsible for all staff working for the Council and for the proper deployment of its resources to ensure the Council meets its duties; and must also ensure that the Council is equipped to respond to any emergency that the Council may be faced with. Prior to being Chief Executive, Paul was Deputy Chief Executive & Group Director for Community & Children’s Services and before that Paul was the Director for Public Health, Protection & Community Services. Paul has held many roles and had varied responsibilities since beginning his career as an Environmental Health Officer in 1991 and remains a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health. Paul is also the Chair of the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Public Services Board.
Professor Kerry Hood - Dean of Research and Innovation for the Biomedical and Lifesciences College at Cardiff University
Professor Kerry Hood is Professor of Trials and Dean of Research & Innovation for the College of Biomedical & Life Sciences at Cardiff University and a Senior Research Leader and mentor for Health & Care Research Wales. Kerry holds a degree and PhD in Statistics and has worked in medical statistics since 1996. She spent the first part of her career focussed on research in primary care and then in 2006 established the South East Wales Trials Unit and started to develop a broader research portfolio. In 2015 she was appointed to lead the merger of three CTUs at Cardiff and created the Centre for Trial Research and was the Director until 2023. Collaborating widely across the UK and Europe on research studies from a broad range of funders including NIHR, NISCHR, EU and industry, Kerry has over 360 peer reviewed research publications and currently holds £32M of research grants as a co-applicant. She is a Fellow and Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society and the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Society for Academic Primary Care and the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Kerry is keen to develop career pathways for researchers and is a mentor on a number of UK wide mentoring schemes, also mentoring undergraduate medical students.
Zoe Lancelott - Head of RCT Health Determinants Research Collaboration
Zoe has over 30 years experience of delivering and managing services for children, young people and families in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Living and working in the South Wales Valleys, Zoe has a keen interest in the role of early intervention and prevention in reducing barriers to education, engagement and opportunity faced by individuals and communities and redressing health inequalities. To her role as the Head of the Rhondda Cynon Taf Health Determinants Research Collaboration, Zoe brings a proven track record of strong strategic leadership, partnership working, delivering multi-million pound change programmes across local government services, public and third sector partners and transforming traditional Council services within both Education and Social Care spheres to deliver measurable outcomes for children, young people and families.
Ben Lewing - Director Making Evidence Work
Ben Lewing is a Director at Making Evidence Work, a community interest company with a mission to unlock the potential of Real World Evidence to improve children's lives. He describes himself as a boundary spanner, and highly motivated by children's joyfulness. His professional journey has stretched from children's homes in Birmingham to national policy influencing on evidence-use, via commissioning local authority and NHS prevention and early intervention services. He spent a decade at the Early Intervention Foundation and Foundations leading work to support local leaders to use diverse forms of evidence. He is the architect of Changemakers and the Early Years Transformation Academy, created the Evidence Pie and is the author of 'Leading & delivering early childhood services: 10 insights from 20 places across England & Wales'.
Professor Jim Mcmanus - National Director of Health and Wellbeing, Public Health Wales
Professor Jim McManus joined Public Health Wales in 2023 and has oversight of programmes across Wider Determinants, partnership working, Primary Care, Health Improvement, Dental Public Health, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Diabetes and Healthcare Public Health.
Jim is a Chartered Psychologist, Chartered Scientist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society in addition to being a registered Public Health specialist and Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health. Before joining Public Health Wales Jim was Executive Director of Public Health for Hertfordshire and President of the UK Association of Directors of Public Health and before that was Joint Director of Public Health for Birmingham. He has worked on primary care, cardiac and stroke care, public mental health, drugs and alcohol, HIV and sexual health. He was national lead for ADPH on drugs and alcohol, mental health and suicide for over five years and has served as Deputy Chair of the National Institute of Health Research Public Health Programme Advisory Board. Jim holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Hertfordshire and a Visiting Senior Lectureship in the Division of Population Health Sciences at the University of Bristol.
Paul Mee - Chief Executive Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council
As Chief Executive, amongst other duties, Paul is responsible for setting the strategic vision and direction of the Council with the Council’s Leader; for advising and supporting elected members and Council on the development and delivery of policy and strategy; is responsible for all staff working for the Council and for the proper deployment of its resources to ensure the Council meets its duties; and must also ensure that the Council is equipped to respond to any emergency that the Council may be faced with. Prior to being Chief Executive, Paul was Deputy Chief Executive & Group Director for Community & Children’s Services and before that Paul was the Director for Public Health, Protection & Community Services. Paul has held many roles and had varied responsibilities since beginning his career as an Environmental Health Officer in 1991 and remains a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health. Paul is also the Chair of the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Public Services Board.
Professor Kerry Hood - Dean of Research and Innovation for the Biomedical and Lifesciences College at Cardiff University
Professor Kerry Hood is Professor of Trials and Dean of Research & Innovation for the College of Biomedical & Life Sciences at Cardiff University and a Senior Research Leader and mentor for Health & Care Research Wales. Kerry holds a degree and PhD in Statistics and has worked in medical statistics since 1996. She spent the first part of her career focussed on research in primary care and then in 2006 established the South East Wales Trials Unit and started to develop a broader research portfolio. In 2015 she was appointed to lead the merger of three CTUs at Cardiff and created the Centre for Trial Research and was the Director until 2023. Collaborating widely across the UK and Europe on research studies from a broad range of funders including NIHR, NISCHR, EU and industry, Kerry has over 360 peer reviewed research publications and currently holds £32M of research grants as a co-applicant. She is a Fellow and Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society and the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Society for Academic Primary Care and the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Kerry is keen to develop career pathways for researchers and is a mentor on a number of UK wide mentoring schemes, also mentoring undergraduate medical students.
Zoe Lancelott - Head of RCT Health Determinants Research Collaboration
Zoe has over 30 years experience of delivering and managing services for children, young people and families in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Living and working in the South Wales Valleys, Zoe has a keen interest in the role of early intervention and prevention in reducing barriers to education, engagement and opportunity faced by individuals and communities and redressing health inequalities. To her role as the Head of the Rhondda Cynon Taf Health Determinants Research Collaboration, Zoe brings a proven track record of strong strategic leadership, partnership working, delivering multi-million pound change programmes across local government services, public and third sector partners and transforming traditional Council services within both Education and Social Care spheres to deliver measurable outcomes for children, young people and families.
Ben Lewing - Director Making Evidence Work
Ben Lewing is a Director at Making Evidence Work, a community interest company with a mission to unlock the potential of Real World Evidence to improve children's lives. He describes himself as a boundary spanner, and highly motivated by children's joyfulness. His professional journey has stretched from children's homes in Birmingham to national policy influencing on evidence-use, via commissioning local authority and NHS prevention and early intervention services. He spent a decade at the Early Intervention Foundation and Foundations leading work to support local leaders to use diverse forms of evidence. He is the architect of Changemakers and the Early Years Transformation Academy, created the Evidence Pie and is the author of 'Leading & delivering early childhood services: 10 insights from 20 places across England & Wales'.
Professor Jim Mcmanus - National Director of Health and Wellbeing, Public Health Wales
Professor Jim McManus joined Public Health Wales in 2023 and has oversight of programmes across Wider Determinants, partnership working, Primary Care, Health Improvement, Dental Public Health, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Diabetes and Healthcare Public Health.
Jim is a Chartered Psychologist, Chartered Scientist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society in addition to being a registered Public Health specialist and Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health. Before joining Public Health Wales Jim was Executive Director of Public Health for Hertfordshire and President of the UK Association of Directors of Public Health and before that was Joint Director of Public Health for Birmingham. He has worked on primary care, cardiac and stroke care, public mental health, drugs and alcohol, HIV and sexual health. He was national lead for ADPH on drugs and alcohol, mental health and suicide for over five years and has served as Deputy Chair of the National Institute of Health Research Public Health Programme Advisory Board. Jim holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Hertfordshire and a Visiting Senior Lectureship in the Division of Population Health Sciences at the University of Bristol.
