Membership of the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV:

Chair Baroness Joyce Gould
Baroness Gould is a House of Lords Life Peer with a strong interest in sexual health. She is President of fpa (formerly named Family Planning Association), patron of FORWARD, an organisation that campaigns against female genital mutilation and also Chair of the All Party Pro Choice Group. She has extensive experience of chairing large groups and committees.

Joint Vice Chairs Anne Weyman
Is currently Chief Executive of fpa. She was involved in the development of the Sexual Health and HIV Strategy and is also a member of the Independent Advisory Group on Teenage Pregnancy. She has a wealth of experience across all aspects of sexual health and experience of public speaking and chairing meetings. Derek Bodell
Until recently, Chief Executive of the National AIDS Trust who has over 15 years experience in delivering Sexual Health and HIV services at both a strategic and local level. He also served as a member of the Sexual Health and HIV Steering Group and was involved in developing specific proposals in 1997 proposing the integration of HIV into a broader sexual health framework. He has extensive experience of chairing and facilitating groups.

Strategy and Implementation Special Adviser Mike Adler CBE
Is Professor of Genitourinary Medicine, Royal Free and University Medical School and was seconded to the Department of Health until 2001 to take a lead on the development of the Sexual Health and HIV Strategy. He is an advisor to the All Party Group on AIDS, and the Health Select Committee. Has also served as a Trustee and Chairman of the National AIDS Trust (NAT), Clinical Director of HIV/AIDS/GUM and Drugs Services for both Bloomsbury and the Camden Community Health Services. He has been a non-executive director of the Health Development Agency since 1999.

Senior Health Promotion Expert Jo Adams
Is currently the Director of the Centre for HIV and Sexual Health and chair of the National Sex Education Forum. Was a founder member of the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health. Was also the Chair of the Sexual Health Promotion Working Group and a member of the Sexual Health Strategy Steering Group, which helped develop the Sexual Health and HIV Strategy.

Public Health Expert Kevin Fenton
Consultant Epidemiologist and Head of HIV/STI Section at the Public Health Laboratory Service. He has been actively involved in many aspects of the development and implementation of the Sexual Health and HIV Strategy including sitting on a number of the working groups. He currently chairs the Chlamydia Screening Programme Steering Group. He has also been involved with a number of research studies, which have informed the development of the strategy, including the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles.

General Practitioners William Ford Young
A full time ''grass roots'' GP for 13 years during which time his interest in sexual health and HIV has been developed by work in GUM clinics. Is currently the sexual health lead for Eastern Cheshire PCT, the lead for sexual health for Royal College of GPs Task Group for Sex, Drugs and HIV. He is also the Royal College of GPs representative for the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases 'STIF' (Sexually transmitted Infection Foundation Course) Steering Committee. He is also the GP member of the Chlamydia Screening Steering Group at Department of Health and GP member of the PHLS Advisory Committee on STDs. Surinder Singh
Currently a General Practitioner and Clinical Lecturer in General Practice at the Royal Free and University College Medical School. He has worked in the area of sexual health and HIV/AIDs since 1987. Was previously Chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners Working Party on HIV/AIDS and is now a member of the same committee and is also a member of the Expert Advisory Group on AIDS and Advisory Group on blood-borne Viruses. Has written various articles on sexual health and HIV infection. Has extensive experience of service planning and provision at both a strategic and local level.

Consultants in Family Planning/Community Gynaecology Connie Smith
Is currently a Co- Director of Westside Contraceptive Services, Westminster PCT. She is also Chair of the Clinical Advisory Committee of the fpa. Was Co-Chair of the Sexual Health Services Working Group and a member of the Sexual Health Strategy Steering Group which helped to development of the Strategy. She is an adviser to the Medicines Control Agency and the Committee on Safety on Medicines on contraception issues. Is formerly the Director of the Clinical Effectiveness Unit for the Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Health at the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Sunanda Gupta is a consultant in community gynaecology and reproductive health, Walthamstow, Leyton and Leytonstone PCT where she is clinical and professional lead in family planning and reproductive health care. This incorporates complex contraceptive provision, unintended pregnancy and vasectomy services, community cervical cytology, colposcopy and HRT/menopause services. She is also Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Barts and Queen Mary's School of Medicine and has published a variety of published research, review articles, journals and book chapters.

Consultants in Genito - Urinary Medicine Patrick French (specialist in HIV treatment and care)
Is currently Consultant in Genito-Urinary Medicine at Camden PCT, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Royal Free & University College Medical School and Honorary Consultant Physician at the Whittington and UCLH Trusts. Was involved in the development of the Sexual Health and HIV Strategy as a member of the Steering Group. Also took responsibility for developing the Strategy's approach to strengthening and modernising sexual health treatment and care services. George Kinghorn (generalist) has been a Consultant in Gentio - Urinary Medicine, Clinical Director for Communicable Diseases and a full time lead for clinical teaching and research in Sheffield since 1979. Is involved in a variety of local, regional and national initiatives including being the immediate past President of the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases (MSSVD). Was the main author of the GU medicine response to the consultation on the Sexual Health and HIV Strategy.

Nurses Kathy French
Currently a part time sexual health advisor at the Royal College of Nursing. Working on a distance learning package for nurses that has been commissioned by the Department of Health. Previous position was Clinical Nurse Manager for Contraception and Termination of Pregnancy Services at Kings Healthcare in London and Clinical Nurse Specialist in contraception. Is undertaking a PHD in teenage pregnancy and the invisibility of young males. She continues to do clinical locum work to maintain clinical skills and knowledge. Lesley Greenhalgh is a Senior Nurse at Bolton Centre for Sexual Health, based at Royal Bolton Hospital, and has extensive clinical experience underpinned by professional qualifications. She serves as a committee member, as educational officer and chair for the Professional Development Forum of the Genito Urinary Association. She has contributed to the delivery of the sexual health qualification in partnership with the University of Salford. Is also a member of the local Teenage Pregnancy Strategy Group. In addition to this has extensive experience of public speaking and presentations at a variety of conferences. Has also published a variety of relevant articles in health journals.

Sexual Health Adviser Heather Wilson
Is currently a Senior Health Adviser at Barnet Hospital and is also the President of the Society of Health Advisers in Sexually Transmitted Diseases (SHASTD). Has extensive knowledge of STIs and HIV. Is also a member of the Department of Health's Health Adviser Working Party and helped to develop recommendations for the Sexual Health and HIV Strategy. Is also currently involved in writing health promotion guidelines for health advisors on behalf of the Department of Health.

Abortion Providers Ian Jones
Currently Chief Executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service. He has contributed throughout the consultation period of the Sexual Health and HIV Strategy and the earlier Social Exclusion report on Teenage Pregnancy. Has contributed to various Department of Health Working Parties, including the expert Group on the use of Conscious Sedation and more recently gave evidence to the House of Commons Health Committee enquiry into the Strategy. Helen Axby Deputy Chief Executive of Marie Stopes International with 18 years experience including working directly with clients and service providers. As part of this role she has undertaken international work and worked alongside various Ministries of Health, contributing to policy development including the recent legislation of abortion in Nepal. Other projects have included developing contractual agreements between the NHS and the non-government sector, service development including early medical abortion, the introduction of local anaesthetic and the management of late abortion.

Primary Care Trust - Chief Executive Joanne Forrest
Currently Chief Executive of North Liverpool PCT who has over 20 years experience within the NHS as both a clinician and a manager. Is lead commissioner of sexual health services of all Liverpool and Sefton. As part of this role she has responsibility for other related areas including teenage pregnancy, termination services and prison health. Is also Chair of the Liverpool and Sefton Sexual Health Strategy Implementation Group.

Strategic Health Authority Director of Modernisation Sheila Adam
Is currently Director of Public Health for North East London Strategic Health Authority and has in the past, worked at both regional and national level. Until recently she was Deputy Chief Medical Officer and co-chaired, with Mike Adler, the Sexual Health and HIV Strategy Steering Group and was involved in the Strategy's development and launch. She was a Medical Research Council Training Fellow, a Visiting Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and is currently an Honorary Professor at the Queen Mary University.

Senior Social Services Manager Stephen Slack
For the past eight years has worked within the area of sexual health for the Social Services Department in Sheffield, initially as a specialist social worker for people with HIV before taking the role of Team Manager for the HIV Social Work Team and Lead Officer for sexual health. Has written local sexual health policy, based on the Sexual Health and HIV Strategy, which is being implemented. Is also involved in regional HIV training.

User and Self-Help Group Representative Christopher Woolls
Is currently the Director of Staffordshire Buddies, a charity that provides support and care to people with HIV/AIDS. Worked in partnership with key local stakeholders, including people living with HIV, to formulate responses to the Sexual Health Strategy. Was previously Health Promotion Manager at Terrence Higgins Trust South. Has extensive knowledge and understanding of people living with HIV and AIDS.

Voluntary Sector Representatives

Jan Barlow
Currently the Chief Executive of Brook Advisory Services, an organisation which aims to protect, promote and preserve the sexual and reproductive health of young people. Has over five years senior management experience in the voluntary sector in both large and smaller organisations. Was a member of a Sexual Health and HIV Strategy sub-group and was responsible for drafting a formal response to the Strategy. Brook Advisory was also commissioned by the Department of Health to undertake a consultation with young people on the Strategy.

Nicholas Partridge
Nick Partridge is currently Chief Executive of Terrence Higgins Trust and has worked in the HIV/AIDS field since 1985. He has overseen the development, implementation and monitoring of HIV and STI prevention programmes, as well as the creation and delivery of a wide range of social care and advice services for people living with HIV. He was a member of the Sexual Health and HIV Strategy Steering Group and is a member of the Commission for Health Improvement.

Evelyn Asante-Mensah
Is Chief Executive of the Black Health Agency, an organisation that focuses on the needs of the black and minority ethnic communities in Manchester. Has worked in the sexual health and HIV field in a senior management capacity for the last 8 years. Has experience of service delivery as well as developing policy. Was involved in the development of the Manchester Sexual Health Strategy. Is also the Chair of both Central Manchester PCT and the Health Inequalities Partnerships which has responsibility for commissioning services to tackle inequalities in Manchester. Elisabeth Crafer Chief Executive of Positively Women, a London based national organisation providing peer support to women living with HIV. Was a member of the Sexual Health Strategy Steering Group and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy Social Care group. Is also chair of the pan-London HIV Providers Consortium with 48 member organisations. Has also provided evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS, providing parliamentarians with evidence on issues affecting women and children.

Adviser on Black and Minority Ethnic Communities Max Sessay
Is currently Chief Executive of the African HIV Policy Network, an organisation that is responsible for representing Africans and black communities with HIV, as a result of this he has a firm grasp of the issues that affect these people. Was a member of Sexual Health Strategy Steering Group who was responsible for organising Strategy Consultation events with African Communities. Laura Serrant-Green a member of the black community who has worked in a variety of posts related to sexual health and HIV/AIDs since 1986. These include nursing, outreach working, lecturing, research and the training of community workers. Has worked in particular with minority communities in a sexual health & HIV nurse/outreach worker capacity and as a mentor to black youth. Has been interviewed on behalf of local and national television, radio and newspapers about sexual health, HIV and black communities. Is also currently a member of the Royal College of Nursing Sexual Health Forum and Advisory Group on Sexual Health.

Researcher Graham Hart
Has worked in the sexual health field since 1986 and has been researching, teaching and contributing to policy since this time. A medical sociologist by background, his current post is Associate Director of the MRC Social and Public Health Services Unit at the University of Glasgow. Professor Hart has published an extensive range of research articles, book chapters and edited books, as well as serving on international scientific committees. He is currently Chair of two national committees: the Department of Health Teenage Pregnancy Evaluation Advisory Committee, the Medical Research Council/Department of Health Sexual Health and HIV Research Strategy.