Our stakeholder advisory group meet once a year to provide expert advice to the development and conduct of each of our workstreams to enable us to achieve maximum impact from a public, academic and policy perspective. Each stakeholder represents a different perspective relevant to the wider determinants of obesity.
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Professor Brian Ferguson, Director of NIHR Public Health Research programme
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Mr Chris McEwan, Local Authority Councillor Darlington. Darlington Primary Care Network Lay Member. Member of Obesity Policy Engagement Network
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Professor Petra Meier, Consortium Director of Systems science in Public Health and Health Economics Research (SIPHER), University of Glasgow.
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Dr John Williams, Managing Director, Birmingham Health Partners
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Ms Anna Taylor, Executive Director, The Food Foundation
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Dr Magdalena Skrybant, Applied Research Collaboration Public Involvement Lead
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Mr Mubasshir Aljaz, Head of Wellbeing and Prevention, West Midlands Combined Authority
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Mr Dean Hill, Physical Activity and Wellbeing Legacy Lead Common Wealth Games Birmingham 2022, Sport England
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Ms Margot Melville, Senior Evaluation Officer, Research & Monitoring Unit, Sustrans
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Professor Miles Tight, Professor of Transport, Energy and Environment, University of Birmingham
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The CEO team and Stakeholder Advisory Group met for the third Annual General Meeting 2024. Held at the Hotel du Vin, key discussions and comments helped the team reflect on the Centre's growth and future aims.
The advisory group had its second annual meeting on 18th May 2023 at The Studio, Birmingham. The day featured presentations from all CEO staff with insight/advice provided on all work to date and future direction.