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Trustees

 

Professor Rajan Madhok
Medical Director Manchester PCT, chair
  Professor Rajan Madhok is the Medical Director of the Manchester Primary Care Trust, Manchester, England, and Clinical Director with Computer Sciences Corporation Alliance, England.

A graduate of Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi, he came to the UK in 1980. After training in orthopaedic surgery he turned to public health and over the last 15 years has held increasingly senior leadership positions in the British NHS and has held or holds academic appointments with Universities of Edinburgh, Hull, Manchester and Teesside. He is an active researcher a founding editor (since Oct 2005, Coordinating Editor) of the Cochrane Bone, Joint and Muscle Trauma Group and has served in editorial capacities for the three main publications of his specialty of public health medicine. His interest in teaching started during his stay at the Mayo Clinic, USA in the early 1990s and since then he has been involved in various ways, most recently in helping to set up the Hull York Medical School and currently as the Director of NorthWest Teaching Public Health Network. He is a founding member of the Peoples-uni. He was made a Companion Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association in 2001, and has served on various national bodies including the General Medical Council, British Medical Association and Faculty of Public Health, and was the 2003 Milroy Lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Selwyn Hodge
Chair, Royal Society of Health
  Trained as a research organic chemist, Selwyn Hodge has taught and held posts of responsibility in schools, colleges and universities. He has been a schools’ science adviser in local government and Chief Education Adviser and Senior Assistant Director of Education for a local authority. He has inspected schools nationally for OFSTED. He has considerable experience of managing children’s services and has worked to improve joint working between health, education and social services. He has a particular interest in child protection and in promoting personal, health and social education among young people. He has been the Chair of the Greater Manchester Federation of Clubs for Young People for 4 years and is also a trustee of the national body – Clubs for Young People UK. He has been a Council member of the Royal Society of Health, a national charity, for eleven years and is currently the Chair of this organisation. He is also Chair of Oldham Breathe Easy, a support group for people with respiratory problems, and a member of both the regional committee and the national support sub-committee of the British Lung Foundation.
Dr Kani Torun
Chief Executive Officer, Doctors Worldwide
  Graduated in medicine in Turkey. After a few years in general practice completed a PhD degree in sports and health and has been involved in undergraduate teaching. At present working as Chief Executive Officer of Doctors Worldwide, a charity which provides emergency and extended medical relief, as well as rehabilitation, reconstruction and medical education to those who are in need without any access or means to basic medical care : http://www.doctorsworldwide.org/
Professor Dick Heller
Peoples-uni.org
  I am a medical graduate from London University and have worked in the UK, the US and Australia. I retired in 2006 from the post of Professor of Public Health in the University of Manchester, UK. My educational highlights have been the involvement with INCLEN, an organisation originally funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, which involved capacity building in a number of medical schools across the developing world. As part of that I developed a distance learning masters course from the University of Newcastle in Australia. Subsequently I built a fully on-line masters course in Public Health in Manchester. I am the originator of the idea for the Peoples-uni.org, to help with capacity building in developing countries, using open access resources on the Internet. My research interests have been in the causes and prevention of heart disease, and in developing measures to describe the population impact of disease risks and the benefits of interventions.  
Dr Sue Powell (Support to Trustees)
NW Public Health Teaching Network
Dr Sue Powell is the co-ordinator for the Teaching Public Health Network in the North West Region, UK. She has a background in environmental health, having worked in both local government and the private sector. For the last 15 years, Sue has worked in higher education with teaching and research interests in public and environmental health, infectious intestinal disease and risk management. Sue is a Director of Groundwork West Lancashire and Wigan, Deputy Chair of the Qualificastion Board and a member of the Education and Professional Standards Board for the Chartered Institue of Environmental Health. This co-ordinator role is a part-time secondment from her post as Principal Lecturer, Health Protection at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.