Reducing differences in the uptake of immunisations
This is an extract from the guidance. The complete guidance is available at guidance.nice.org.uk/ph21
Appendix A: Membership of the Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee (PHIAC), the NICE project team and external contractors
Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee
NICE has set up a standing committee, the Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee (PHIAC), which reviews the evidence and develops recommendations on public health interventions. Membership of PHIAC is multidisciplinary, comprising public health practitioners, clinicians (both specialists and generalists), local authority officers, teachers, social care professionals, representatives of the public, patients and/or carers, academics and technical experts as follows.
Professor Sue Atkinson CBE Independent Consultant and Visiting Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London
Mr John F Barker Associate Foundation Stage Regional Adviser for the Parents as Partners in Early Learning Project, DfES National Strategies
Professor Michael Bury Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of London. Honorary Professor of Sociology, University of Kent
Professor K K Cheng Professor of Epidemiology, University of Birmingham
Ms Joanne Cooke Programme Manager, Collaboration and Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for South Yorkshire
Dr Richard Cookson Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York
Mr Philip Cutler Forums Support Manager, Bradford Alliance on Community Care
Ms Lesley Michele de Meza Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) Education Consultant, Trainer and Writer
Professor Ruth Hall Regional Director, Health Protection Agency, South West
Ms Amanda Hoey Director, Consumer Health Consulting Limited
Mr Alasdair J Hogarth Head Teacher, Archbishops School, Canterbury
Mr Andrew Hopkin Assistant Director, Local Environment, Derby City Council
Dr Ann Hoskins Director, Children, Young People and Maternity, NHS North West
Ms Muriel James Secretary, Northampton Healthy Communities Collaborative and the King Edward Road Surgery Patient Participation Group
Dr Matt Kearney General Practitioner, Castlefields, Runcorn. GP Public Health Practitioner, Knowsley PCT
Ms Valerie King Designated Nurse for Looked After Children, Northampton PCT, Daventry and South Northants PCT and Northampton General Hospital. Public Health Skills Development Nurse, Northampton PCT
CHAIR Professor Catherine Law Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology, UCL Institute of Child Health
Mr David McDaid Research Fellow, Department of Health and Social Care, London School of Economics and Political Science
Mr Bren McInerney Community Member
Professor Susan Michie Professor of Health Psychology, BPS Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, University College London
Dr Stephen Morris Professor of Health Economics, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London
Dr Adam Oliver RCUK Senior Academic Fellow, Health Economics and Policy, London School of Economics
Dr Mike Owen General Practitioner, William Budd Health Centre, Bristol
Dr Toby Prevost Reader in Medical Statistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, King's College London
Ms Jane Putsey Lay Representative, Chair of Trustees of the Breastfeeding Network
Dr Mike Rayner Director, British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford
Mr Dale Robinson Chief Environmental Health Officer, South Cambridgeshire District Council
Ms Joyce Rothschild Children's Services Improvement Adviser, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
Dr Tracey Sach Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, University of East Anglia
Professor Mark Sculpher Professor of Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Dr David Sloan Retired Director of Public Health
Dr Stephanie Taylor Reader, Applied Research, Centre for Health Sciences, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Dr Stephen Walters Reader, Medical Statistics, University of Sheffield
Dr Dagmar Zeuner Joint Director of Public Health, Hammersmith and Fulham PCT
Expert co-optees to PHIAC:
Dr Helen Bedford Senior Lecturer in Children's Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, London
Dr David Elliman Consultant Community Paediatrician, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust and Haringey Teaching PCT
Professor Andrew Hall Chairman, Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation
Dr Anthony Harnden Lecturer in General Practice, Department of Primary Care, University of Oxford
Dr Mary Ramsay Consultant Epidemiologist, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections
NICE project team
Mike Kelly
CPHE Director
Tricia Younger
Associate Director
Nichole Taske
Analyst
Kay Nolan
Analyst
Chris Carmona
Analyst
Patti White
Analyst
Alastair Fischer
Technical Adviser (Health Economics)
External contractors
Reviewers: effectiveness review
Review 1: 'Review of the evidence of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of interventions to address differences in the uptake of immunisations (including targeted vaccines) in people younger than 19 years' was carried out by the National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health. The principal authors were: Jane Tuckerman, Nina Balachander, Sharangini Rajesh, Ceri Oeppen, Anna Bancsi, Paul Jacklin, Jay Banerjee and Andrew Clegg.
Reviewers: economic analysis
Analysis one: 'The impact of increasing vaccine coverage on the distribution of disease: measles in the UK' was carried out by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The principal authors were: John Edmunds and Albert Jan Van Hoek (Health Protection Agency).
Analysis two: 'An exploration of the cost-effectiveness of interventions to reduce the difference in uptake of childhood immunisations in the UK using threshold analysis' was carried out by the National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health. The principal author was Paul Jacklin.
Analysis three: 'The estimated cost-effectiveness of vaccination in infants born to hepatitis B virus positive mothers' was carried out by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The principal authors were: John Edmunds and Mary Ramsay.