Management

The IOBI steering committee includes members from England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland & Ireland:

Current Chair

Ronan Lyons
Professor of Public Health, Swansea University and Convenor of the Collaboration for Accident Prevention and Injury Control (CAPIC)
Tel: 01792 513484

England

Dr Julia Verne
Director, South West PHO (SWPHO)
Tel: 0117 970 6474

Mr Paul Brown
Deputy Director, South West PHO (SWPHO)
Tel: 0117 970 6474 ext x320

Ms Wendi Slater
Senior Analyst,
South West PHO (SWPHO)
Tel: 0117 970 6474 ext x304

Professor Elizabeth Towner
Professor of Child Health, University of the West England
and Co-director of the Centre for Child and Adolescent Health
Tel: 0117 331 0881

Professor Mark A. Bellis
Director, Centre for Public Health, WHO Collaborating Centre for Violence Prevention, North West PHO (NWPHO)and NICE Collaborating Centre for Drug Prevention
Tel:0151 231 4511

Zara Anderson
Violence Researcher / TIIG Analyst
Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University
Tel: 0151 231 4505

Karen Hughes
Manager of Behavioural Epidemiology
Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University
Tel: 0151 231 4384

Wales

Ronan Lyons
Professor of Public Health, Swansea University and Convenor of the Collaboration for Accident Prevention and Injury Control (CAPIC)
Tel: 01792 513484

Miss Samantha Turner
Research Assistant, Swansea University and Collaboration for Accident Prevention and Injury Control (CAPIC)
Tel: 01792 602769

Professor Jonathan Shepherd
Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Director, Violence Research Group Cardiff University, Chair,WHO Violence Task Group Cardiff Community Safety Partnership
Tel: 029 2074 4215

Scotland

Professor David Stone
Professor Of Paediatric Epidemiology, University of Glasgow
Tel: 0141 201 0178

Dr Colin Fischbacher
Consultant in Public Health Medicine
Information Services Division (ISD), Scotland
Tel: 0131 275 7063

Elizabeth Lumsden
Community Safety Manager (Scotland)
ROSPA Scotland
Tel: 0131 449 9379
Fax: 0131 449 9380
Mob: 07980864918

Prof Allyson Pollock
Director, Centre for International Public Health Policy
Tel: 0131 651 3964

Graham Kirkwood
Research Fellow, Centre for International Public Health Policy
Tel: 44 (0)131 651 3958

Northern Ireland

Ita McErlean
Home Safety Manager , RoSPA, Northern Ireland
Tel: 02980 501160

Ireland

Ireland and Northern Ireland’s Population Health Observatory(INIsPHO), Institute of Public Health in Ireland

Steve Barron
Research Analyst, INIsPHO, Institute of Public Health in Ireland
Tel: +353 1 478 6313