Webinar: What can local government in England do to tackle the leading risk factors for ill health?

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Dr Jeanelle de Gruchy was appointed as England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer in October 2021, supporting the Chief Medical Officer on health improvement and health inequalities. She is the professional lead for the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). 

Before becoming DCMO, Dr de Gruchy was a Director of Public Health - for Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council in Greater Manchester (2018-2021) and the London Borough of Haringey (2010-2018). She was President of the Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) from 2017-2021. Dr de Gruchy did her clinical training in South Africa, working clinically in South Africa and then in the NHS.

Alice Wiseman has been Director of Public Health (DPH) in Gateshead and Newcastle since April 2024. 

Prior to that she was the DPH in Gateshead and has been registered with the UK Public Health Register since December 2009. 

Before becoming a DPH Alice worked in a broad range of senior public health roles across Tyne and Wear. 

Alice’s approach is firmly rooted in the belief that people, in their own communities, must be central to solving the issues of inequality; firstly, through sharing lived experience and secondly, through identifying innovative and creative ways to improve outcomes for their community. 

Alice is a vice president for the Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) and the policy lead for addictions. In this role Alice, works closely with national colleagues and has given evidence to several all-party parliamentary groups and a parliamentary committee

Adam joined the Health Foundation in September 2018 and is a Senior Policy Fellow.

Adam works on various areas of public health policy, including risk factors for ill health and public health expenditure. He is a consultant in public health and alongside his role at the Health Foundation, he works as Deputy Director of Public Health for three days a week in Oxfordshire and is also Deputy Director of the NIHR Research Support Service Specialist Centre for Public Health based at the University of Southampton. Between November 2020 and September 2022, his Health Foundation time was used to support the pandemic initially as a Public Health Strategy Advisor to the Chief Medical Advisor at NHS Test and Trace, and then as interim Deputy Director for Health Equity, Strategy and Partnerships at the UK Health Security Agency.

Before joining the Health Foundation, he was a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice in the United States, based at The Dartmouth Institute. His research focused on how accountable care organisations and place-based health systems meet patients’ preventive care needs.

Adam studied medicine at Oxford and his DPhil is in Public Health Economics. As a public health specialty registrar and academic clinical fellow, he had various roles covering policy, practice, teaching, and research. In particular, he worked on modelling the health impact of public health policies, such as soft drink taxes.