Professor Kelechi Nnoaham MBBS MSc DTM&H MPH DPhil FFPH FACHE

Kelechi currently leads a centre of excellence on health programmes development in Shell plc focused on enabling the business, its people and communities to thrive in the energy transition.

Kelechi qualified with a medical degree from Nigeria in 1999, practiced clinical infectious diseases and general medicine in West Africa before going on to complete with Distinctions studies in public health at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and global health at University of Oxford. His PhD from Oxford University in 2011 was based on a multicentre global study spanning public health, epidemiology and women’s health. His research culminated in a number of highly cited publications, with the main publication highlighted by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in 2019 as one of 25 most influential papers in its 75-year history.

Kelechi has in the last 15 years held a variety of senior Public Health positions in the NHS, and Local Government and the private sector as well as honorary professorships in Public Health & Epidemiology with Plymouth University (2015-2022) and Cardiff University (since 2021).

Before joining Shell in December 2022, Kelechi was Executive Director of Public Health and Lead for Research & Development, Value-Based Health and Innovation in Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board from November 2016. In that role, he pioneered a transformative approach to the use of integrated population data to tackle the underlying drivers of health inequalities and improve population health. He brought a system-wide approach to the population health agenda and primed the health and care system’s institutions to strengthen their partnerships, including leading the articulation of a clear agenda around population health research, culminating in a recent significant NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaborative award to the partnership to tackle health inequalities.

Kelechi lives in Talygarn in South Wales with his wife Theodora, a medical laboratory assistant with Royal Glamorgan Hospital, and two young children – an 8 year old boy and a 5 year old girl.

Viv Harpwood is an Emerita Professor of Law at Cardiff University where she founded the LLM (Legal Aspects of Medical Practice degree), the first of its kind, and of which she was course director for more than twenty years. She has delivered lectures and seminars to law students drawn from a wide range of backgrounds, also to members of the healthcare professions, nationally and internationally. She has researched and published articles and books on many aspects of personal injury law, international human rights, medical law and bioethics, and was the founding editor of two highly regarded and now well-established publications – Butterworths Medico-Legal Reports and the journal Medical Law International.

As a member of several UK Government Committees, among them the NHS Complaints Review Committee and the Silicone Gel Breast Implant Review Group, Viv gained very valuable experience in researching, evaluating data, deliberating on issues of topical concern, influencing policy and making recommendations for reform. In Wales, Viv chaired the NHS Wales Equality & Human Rights Advisory Group, the governance board of the Cancer Research UK Centre for Wales, and was a member of the Wales DNAR (CPR) Advisory Group and Information Governance Advisory Board. In her role on the implementation advisory Group for the Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013, she travelled across the Principality to consult with members of the public and explain the purpose of the legislation. She has served on clinical ethics committees nationally and internationally, and more recently, she was appointed to the NICE Guideline Committee on Cannabis for Medicinal Use.

Following her University career, Viv was Chair of Powys Teaching Health Board for eight years, working collaboratively with other public service leaders and agencies to improve the lives of people across a large area of Mid-Wales. During this period, Viv did voluntary work in Newport as a trustee of two charities and assisting with the local night shelter. She also chaired the Welsh NHS Confederation, representing Welsh interests and participating as a trustee of the central NHS Confederation. During COVID, she served on the Covid-19 Moral and Ethical Advisory Group for Wales, and the Wales Clinical Vaccination Advisory Group. Viv continues to contribute to public life as Lead Governor of Royal United Hospitals, Bath, and is progressing her work for UNESCO as a UK member of the UNESCO South Asia Education Department’s International Research Committee on Health Law and Bioethics.

Professor Derek Feeley, CB, DBA, is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a Board Member at the Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS), Advisor to the Board at East London Foundation Trust and an Honorary Professor at the University of the West of Scotland. He chaired the Independent Review of Adult Social Care which reported to the Scottish Government in February 2021. Before returning to Scotland in 2020, he was IHI’s Chief Executive where he was responsible for driving IHI’s mission to improve health and health care worldwide. Prior to joining IHI, he was Director General of Health and Social Care in the Scottish Government, and Chief Executive of NHS Scotland. In that role, he was the principal advisor to the Scottish Government on all health, health care, and social care policy matters, as well as having leadership responsibility for NHS Scotland’s 140,000 staff.

Fran is currently the independent Chair of the Welsh Government’s National Advice Network providing expert advice, guidance, and support to Welsh Ministers on how to strategically develop the provision of social welfare information and advice services throughout Wales.

Fran retired in February 2019 as the Director for Citizens Advice Cymru having been associated with Citizens Advice since 1978 when she started as a volunteer adviser, and was appointed Director of Citizens Advice Cymru in 2000, responsible for Citizens Advice services across Wales.

She is Vice-Chair of the Board of trustees of the Wales Council for Voluntary Action Board. WCVA’s purpose is to enable voluntary organisations in Wales to make a bigger difference together and is the national membership body for voluntary organisations in Wales.

She is a member of the Future Generations Commissioner’s Audit and Risk Assurance Committee. She has been a member of a range of Welsh Government and other public sector advisory boards and currently represents the voluntary sector on the Human Rights Advisory Group.

Mother and grandmother. Child and Family Psychiatrist and Social Science Researcher. My family roots lie in North Wales and the Northwest of England. Qualified in Medicine at Manchester University. My clinical career was as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and my research focus was health and social care as a social scientist.

Through professional roles I work to drive evidenced-based policy into practice to improve outcomes for vulnerable people and reach parity for mental health. Past roles include: President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists; Chair of the UK Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, where I led the Choosing Wisely campaign; Mental Health Advisor to Health Education England and Advisor to the Minister for Health and Social Services in Wales for the Together for Children Programme. Currently, Chair Centre for Mental Health, NED Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board and NED KOOTH Mental Health online digital platform.

Roy worked as a presenter on radio and television, attaining a Sony Award in radio and a Royal Television Society Award as Regional Presenter of the Year on television. He broadcasts in the Welsh and English languages. He was a co-presenter of ‘Heno’, a magazine television programme for S4C and acted, as a ‘ yob’ neighbour in a successful comedy series. He has been associated with the BBC for well over thirty years and, although he is synonymous with highly successful, regular, radio programmes, he has presented many entertaining television documentaries, including ‘Noble Trails, Noble Guides and Common Ground. ‘

He is much sought after as a public speaker and has travelled widely, regionally, nationally and internationally, including Welsh Societies in Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai and Toronto. He also has a wide knowledge of Wales, geographically and historically and has published several books, including ‘Roy Noble’s Wales’, ‘Noble Ways – Lay-bys in my Life’, an auto-biography and, more recently, ‘Down the Road and Round the Bend– Tales of Wales, Fact, Fiction and Fanciful’. He has also ‘voiced’ many television advertisements and documentaries.

He has chaired several influential bodies and conferences and hosted many prestigious events. He is involved with many sporting clubs, choirs, and charities, across the whole spectrum of care and need, as Patron, President or Vice President, and was awarded an OBE for services to charities and to Welsh communities. A relatively recent Chair appointment was for the Task and Finish Group looking into the future organisation of the National Eisteddfod.

He is a recent Vice Lord Lieutenant of Mid Glamorgan, a Knight of the Order of St. John , a Paul Harris Fellow with Rotary International, the Welsh Ambassador for the RVS, a Fellow of Cardiff Metropolitan University, a Chancellor’s Medal holder at the University of South Wales and a member of the National Eisteddfod’s ‘ Gorsedd y Beirdd’ – The Bardic Circle.

He hosted the commemoration at the unveiling ceremony of the Bronze Red Dragon in Flanders in 2014, in honour of all Welsh soldiers who served in the First World War was also host at the 100th. Anniversary ceremony of the Battle of Passchendaele, on the battlefield, in 2017, an event attended by Royalty and several Ambassadors.

Ewan is an occupational physician who trained in occupational medicine in the coal mining industry and has since led the UK and international services in industrial sectors as diverse as computing, textiles, aluminium production and health care. He is a former Dean of the UK Faculty of Occupational Medicine and founder and Past President of the Occupational Medicine section of the Union of European Medical Specialists. He retired from the Scottish NHS at the end of 2011, having developed the Salus service in NHS Lanarkshire. Salus is the largest NHS based occupational health and safety service which has a track record of innovation, developing services for the workless, and income-generating for the NHS.

At the University of Glasgow, he established the Healthy Working Lives Group and proposed the Healthy Working Lives paradigm which became the strategy of the Scottish Government in 2004. Subsequently, he stimulated its review which led to the Health Works policy. In 2011 he chaired the implementation group of the first Health Works pilot to introduce a redesigned musculoskeletal service in one health board which is now being rolled out across Scotland with the aim of ensuring a more patient-centred faster service with a focus on return to maximum function including work where appropriate. His research has evolved from a focus on the health problems caused by work to the health problems caused by worklessness and he believes that worklessness is the major contributor to increased morbidity, mortality, health inequalities and social exclusion in Scotland. He established with others, the Scottish Observatory for Work and Health which is based in his group at the University and current research projects include evaluation of return to work initiatives, extending working lives, the biological changes underpinning health inequalities, long working hours and doctors health, health and safety in equine vets, work health needs of high altitude climbing Sherpas, and early interventions in sickness absence.

Sir Michael Marmot has been Professor of Epidemiology at University College London since 1985 and is Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity. He is the author of The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world (Bloomsbury: 2015), and Status Syndrome (Bloomsbury: 2004). Professor Marmot is the Advisor to the WHO Director-General, on social determinants of health, in the new WHO Division of Healthier Populations; Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong (2019-), and co-Director of the of the CUHK Institute of Health Equity.

He is the recipient of the WHO Global Hero Award; the Harvard Lown Professorship (2014-2017); the Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health (2015), and 20 honorary doctorates. Marmot has led research groups on health inequalities for nearly 50 years. He chaired the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, several WHO Regional Commissions, and reviews on tackling health inequality for governments in the UK.

He served as President of the British Medical Association (BMA) in 2010-2011, and as President of the World Medical Association in 2015. He is President of Asthma + Lung UK. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Honorary Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and of the Faculty of Public Health; an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy; and of the Royal Colleges of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Psychiatry, Paediatrics and Child Health, and General Practitioners. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Medicine and of the Brazilian Academy of Medicine. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for six years and in 2000 he was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen, for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities. Prof Marmot was appointed a Companion of Honour for services to public health in the King’s 2023 New Year Honours