C3’s people

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Christine Hancock [email] is the founder and director of C3 Collaborating for Health. 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.

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

Katy Cooper [email] is senior project manager at C3. She is an experienced researcher and writer on chronic disease prevention, having worked in this field since 2005. 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).

Pat Goodwin (PhD, FSB) [email] obtained her BSc (Physiology and Biochemistry) and PhD (microbial biochemistry) from the University of Southampton. She has been a senior manager at the Wellcome Trust for over 20 years, and she managed the Molecular and Cell Panel, the Infection and Immunity Panel and the Functional Genomics Development Panel before taking over responsibility for the portfolio and strategy development in Infectious Disease and Populations and Public Health. She now acts as a special adviser to the Wellcome Trust and a consultant for C3 Collaborating for Health. She is a fellow and Council member of the Society of Biology, a director of UK Biobank, a member of the International Steering Group of the Public Population Project in Genomics and is on the Board of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies.

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.

Egle Paskeviciute [email] is C3’s office manager.

Hester Rice [email] is the events organiser for C3. Hester organised the Oxford Health Alliance summits in 2008 (Sydney), 2009 (Oxford) and 2010 (New Delhi). Hester is also C3’s youth work project manager. She was responsible for the Fit City Competition 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.

Erin Rowsome [email] is working with C3 on workplace health.

Beverley Walker [email] is C3’s accountant.