Ms Anne Conolly — Director of Health and Biomedical Surveys, NatCen Social Research

Anne is the interim Director of Health and Biomedical Surveys team within NatCen's Survey Research Centre. She leads a team of researchers who are responsible for delivering a range of biomedical social surveys including the Health Survey for England (HSE), the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) and the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal).

Anne specialises in the delivery of complex, large-scale social surveys with particular expertise in bio-social data collection methods. She has experience directing and managing a range of quantitative studies, including the Health Survey for England, the Millennium Cohort Study and Understanding Society.

Anne led the recruitment of the Bug Watch, which involved inviting over 19,000 adults to participate in the study. These individuals had previously taken part in the Health Survey for England (a nationally-representative survey) and had provided consent to be contacted about future studies.

Prof Spiros Denaxas — Professor of Biomedical Informatics, UCL Institute of Informatics

Spiros is Professor in Biomedical Informatics at the UCL Institute of Health Informatics. His research focuses on creating and evaluating novel computational methods for risk prediction, data modelling, phenotyping and subphenotype discovery in structure electronic health records and other clinical and genomic data.

Spiros' lab manages CALIBER, a translational research resource which links electronic health records from primary care, hospital care and national mortality registries for over 10m patients.

Prof Jennifer Mindell — Professor of Public Health, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care

Jenny is a public health physician with experience in epidemiological research, teaching, general practice, and health promotion. A major interest is in policies that affect determinants of health and inequalities. She leads the UCL team dealing with the Health Survey for England and other health examination surveys in the UK; the European Health Examination Survey; and initiated a new project comparing health surveys of the Americas and UK (ESARU).

Prior to this, she was the Deputy Director of the London Health Observatory, and led health impact assessments of the London Mayor's Transport and other strategies. She was principal investigator for a multidisciplinary, cross-research council project at University College London to develop tools to measure community severance.

Jenny chaired the UK Faculty of Public Health’s Health Improvement Committee and sat on the Health Policy Committee. She founded the award-winning Journal of Transport and Health.

Prof James Thomas — Professor of Social Research and Policy, UCL Institute of Education

James is Professor of Social Research & Policy at the EPPI-Centre, within the UCL Institute of Education. His research covers substantive disciplinary fields – such as public health and education – and also computer and information science. He has written extensively on research synthesis, including methods for combining qualitative and quantitative research in reviews, and leads the Systematic Reviews Facility for the Department of Health, England.

His activities in computer science include implementing novel technologies and processes (including machine learning and crowd-sourcing) to improve the efficiency of systematic reviews; and leading development of EPPI-Reviewer, software which manages data through all stages of a systematic review.

In PASS, James supported the systematic reviews of evaluations of existing stewardship interventions.