C3’s people

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Christine Hancock [email] is the founder and Director of C3 Collaborating for Health. Christine was a founder-member of the Oxford Health Alliance and worked as its London director for three years. She is an experienced nurse, specialising in cardiac nursing, but also working in midwifery, community and mental health. She became a health service manager and was a CEO in Britain’s NHS for Waltham Forest, a diverse area of north-east London serving 200,000 people. For 12 years she was CEO and General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing and then President of the International Council of Nurses where she was involved in policy-making through WHO and other UN bodies and visited 50 countries looking at their health care. In the UK she is a Governor of De Montfort University, an adviser to Doctors.net, and a trustee of a charity for homeless people.

Katy Cooper [email] is Senior Project Manager at C3. She is an experienced researcher and writer on chronic disease prevention, and worked at the Oxford Health Alliance from 2005 to 2009. She is primarily responsible for C3’s publications and website, as well as advising on many of its projects. Her previous jobs included time at Amnesty International UK, the International Business Leaders Forum and Maplecroft, roles in which she worked on developing ways to involve businesses in human rights. She has degrees from Oxford University (BA, Politics, Philosophy and Economics) and the London School of Economics (MSc, Human Rights).

Hester Rice [email] is the Events Organiser for C3. Hester has organised the 2008 OxHA Summit in Sydney as well as this year’s OxHA summit in Oxford. She will also be responsible for the next summit, to be co-hosted by C3 and the Oxford Health Alliance in New Delhi in 2010. Hester is also C3’s youth work project manager. She was responsible for the Fit City Competition run by OxHA in 2007/08 in which participants were asked to think about ways in which city environments can help to promote health. At the Sydney Summit the Young Professionals Network (YPN) was launched, an online network in which young professionals can stay updated about issues of chronic disease effecting young people – this project is ongoing.

Pat Hughes [email] is working with C3 as a consultant in nursing, health and development. Pat undertook a variety of education, management and policy roles in the UK focusing particularly on workforce and organisational development. Internationally, she worked with WHO, contributing to the organisation of the Second Ministerial Conference on Nursing and Midwifery; developed strategies for managing the nursing workforce; and developed a pilot programme for community and home-based nursing in South East Asia.  As a consultant with the International Council of Nurses, her portfolio included professional regulation and education, and advanced nursing practice and women’s health. She developed and managed a project to provide access to and use of health information in refugee settings in Tanzania and Zambia.

Beverley Walker [email] is C3’s accountant.

Sheree Bryant is a research associate at C3. She is a public-policy entrepreneur, health-promotion activist and postgraduate student at King’s College London.

Amanda Cowley [email] is an intern at C3. She is currently studying for an MSc in Medical Anthropology at University College London.