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Governance
The LHA has strengthened its governance mechanisms to ensure
that all our activities meet the highest standards.
In 2008, A new Steering Committee and a Risk Management
Sub-Committee were established to ensure that:
- Unit activities meet the highest standards of ethical practice
in epidemiological research.
- Ethical, scientific, financial, health and safety and
intellectual property matters are properly executed under the
leadership and management of the Director.
- Policies and procedures are in place to safeguard the
reputation of the study, the interests of study members and the
security of the data.
- The scientific potential of NSHD is maximised through the
provision of scientific advice to the team and their collaborators
and by ensuring that policies and procedures are in place that
facilitate data discovery and use by bona fide researchers.
- The potential for NSHD research findings to improve human
health is maximised.
Steering Committee Chair, Professor John Frank
Professor John Frank is the Chair of
the LHA/NSHD Steering Committee. He brings enormous expertise to
this role. Dr Frank was the Scientific Director of
the Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Institute of
Population and Public Health Research between 2000 and 2008. He has
recently become Director of the Scottish Collaboration for Public
Health Research and Policy, a new research and knowledge
translation Unit funded by the Medical Research Council and the
Scottish Chief Scientist Office. His research and professional
interests concern the determinants of population and individual
health status, and especially the causes and prevention of
socioeconomic disparities in health. Dr Frank was trained
in Medicine and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, in
Family Medicine at McMaster University, and in Epidemiology at the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
 “I
am privileged to chair the LHA/NSHD Steering Committee at this
exciting time when the MRC has established a new Unit to reap the
benefits of its long-term investment in NSHD. The NSHD is a
fabulous study with an international reputation. The lifelong
commitment of NSHD study members is truly wonderful – they have
earned their place in history. Study members turn 63 years old in
March 2009, and this study, with its rich life course data, is
uniquely capable – among all such cohorts worldwide – of providing
insights into the determinants of late-life health of the post-WWII
generation. This generation will dominate the work of the health
and social care systems for decades to come.”
Steering Committee
- Professor John Frank (Chair), MRC
Director, Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and
Policy
- Professor Luigi Ferrucci, Senior
Investigator, Chief, Longitudinal Studies Section, National
Institute on Aging
- Professor Karen Ritchie, Director,
French National Institute of Medical Research (INSERM) Research
Unit E99-30 (Epidemiology of Nervous System Pathologies)
- Professor Linda Partridge, Director,
Institute of Healthy Ageing and Weldon Professor of Biometry,
University College London
- Professor Barbara Maughan, MRC
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of
Psychiatry, King's College London
- Professor Cyrus Cooper, Director, MRC
Epidemiology Resource Centre
- Professor Yoav Ben Shlomo, Professor
of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, Bristol
University
- Professor Ed Byrne, Dean, Faculty of
Biomedical Science, University College London
- Mr Mike Brooks, Chair, LHA/NSHD Risk
Management Committee, MRC Council Member
- Professor Genevra Richardson,
Professor of Law, King’s College London
Risk Management Sub-Committee
- Mr Mike Brooks, Chair, MRC Council Member
- Professor Graham Hart, Director, Research Department of
Infection and Population Health, University College London
- Professor Hazel Inskip, Deputy Director MRC Epidemiology
Resource Centre
- Dr Megan Davies, Head of MRC Centre Cambridge
- Dr Janet Wyatt, Head of Finance and Contracts, MRC Centre
London
- Professor Genevra Richardson, Professor of Law, King’s College
London
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