Our Speakers
David Pencheon
Director of the NHS sustainable development unit. Previously he was Director of the NHS Eastern Region Public Health Observatory from 2001 to 2007, serving the East of England. He has worked as joint Director of Public Health, a Public Health Training Programme Director in the East of England, with the NHS R&D programme, and in China in the early 1990s with Save the Children Fund (UK). Prior to that he was clinician in secondary care.
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Dr Powles
Australian-born public health physician who has been at the Institute of Public Health here in Cambridge since 1991. He believes that the biggest issue facing health policy is the need to avert dangerous climate change. He has worked especially on the need to reduce meat consumption and the likely health co-benefits from doing so, with articles published in the Lancet and appearing in a documentary ‘Meat the truth’ He has also written the chapter on public health policy in high income countries for the Oxford Textbook of Public Health and is assistant editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Public Health.
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Frances Mortimer
Left specialist training in renal medicine in 2008 to work in sustainable healthcare, although she continues part time clinical work in the Oxford Kidney Unit. She is the Medical Director of the Campaign for Greener Healthcare, with a particular interest in engaging doctors in training and medical students in greening clinical practice. She studied medicine at Oxford University and the Royal Free Hospital in London, and is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians.
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Douglas Crawford-Brown
Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Executive Director of Cambridge University Land Economy’s Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research. He has more than 30 years of experience in all aspects of environmental, energy, climate change and sustainability work. This includes research, education and stakeholder engagement, with past projects involving partners in business, industry, government, academia and NGOs. His current research interests are human health risk-assessment; climate change; environmental policy; epistemic analysis of science in environmental policy. These interests are integrated primarily into work on climate change and sustainability for the built and natural environments.
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