Prof. Mark Gamsu

Leeds Beckett University

About the Speaker

Professor Mark Gamsu is Emeritus Professor at Leeds Beckett University and a public health specialist focused on reducing health inequalities.

His work centers on the social determinants of health and developing community-led, system-wide approaches to improving equity in health outcomes. He has extensive experience across academia and national health policy, with a strong emphasis on turning research into practical action.

Tania Osborne

His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons

About the Speaker

Tania Osborne is a senior healthcare professional and inspection lead at His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMI Prisons), where she serves as Head of Health and Social Care Inspection. In this role, she oversees inspections and reporting on the quality of health and social care provided to people in prisons and other places of detention across England and Wales.

Her work focuses on assessing whether detainees receive safe, effective and humane healthcare, and on identifying areas where services in custody settings need improvement. Osborne leads specialist inspection teams that include healthcare inspectors and contributes to national reports on prison healthcare standards and outcomes.

Within HMI Prisons, she is part of the senior leadership structure supporting the organisation’s wider mandate to ensure that detention conditions are safe, decent, and rehabilitative

Charlotte Jaques

Wakefield Council

About the Speaker

Charlotte Jaques is a commissioning and contract management professional with 18 years’ experience across local government and the NHS. She currently works as a Partnership Commissioning Manager within Wakefield Council Public Health, leading tobacco control through coordination of the local tobacco control plan, contract management of stop smoking services, and local and regional partnership programmes.

Charlotte has previously held contract management roles within the Yorkshire Ambulance Service and NHS Leeds South and East CCG, managing high‑value contracts across statutory and voluntary sector services. She holds an MSc in Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care and is passionate about improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities. Outside of work, Charlotte enjoys tap dancing, hiking, animals and adventure.

Karla Treddenick

Spectrum Community Health CIC

About the Speaker

Karla is an experienced senior healthcare leader and Registered Mental Health Nurse with a strong track record of transforming services across acute and urgent care, secure mental health settings, crisis response, and prison healthcare.

As Head of Healthcare at HMP Durham, she provides both strategic and operational leadership across primary care, mental health services, and integrated substance use provision, encompassing clinical and non-clinical teams.

Karla is deeply committed to driving innovation and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. She works collaboratively with partner agencies and patients to enhance service delivery, improve outcomes, and ensure a high-quality patient experience

Dr Lois Murray

UKHSA

About the Speaker

Dr Lois Murray is a Consultant in Public Health at the UK Health Security Agency, specialising in inclusion health and health equity. She leads work to address health protection inequalities through evidence, partnerships and inclusive public health approaches, with a strong focus on community and peer-led solutions developed alongside people with lived experience and voluntary sector organisations.

Lois has extensive experience across UK and global health. A medically trained public health specialist, she has worked with organisations including Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, The Global Fund, UNAIDS, UNITAID, World Health Organization, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Her work has focused on health equity, access to care, maternal health, essential medicines, and strengthening public health systems in the UK and internationally.

Jules Fowler

Locala Health & Wellbeing

About the Speaker

Specialist Engagement Worker in sexual health outreach. Previous history in the drugs and alcohol service as the women’s lead for sex working or victims of domestic abuse

Dr Louise Sell

Pennine Care

About the Speaker

Dr Louise Sell is an addiction psychiatrist by background, having worked in the Northwest of England as a consultant psychiatrist and clinical director of addiction services. Her clinical interest also includes pain management. She has experience in research, service and workforce redesign, medical fitness to practise and appraisals.

Louise has worked regularly with government agencies, contributing to service inspections and the development of standards. She chaired the expert working group for the development of the 2025 UK alcohol clinical guidelines.

Louise has undertaken several roles at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, most recently writing a report on the state of training in addiction psychiatry and leading work to establish and maintain training posts, and to ensure wider opportunities for specialist training are supported.

At Board level, Louise was a medical director for 7 years and for the past 6 years she has been a non-executive director at Stockport NHS FT, serving as chair of the Quality Committee, deputy chair and senior independent director. From April 2026 she took up a role as non-executive director on the Joint Board of Stockport NHS FT and Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT.

Dr Elspeth Webb

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys
NHS Foundation Trust

About the Speaker

Trustwide Autism Clinical Lead (Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust) 

I am a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and a Systemic Psychotherapist. I have worked within the NHS across a variety of specialties for over 25 years with extensive experience of both autism diagnosis across all age groups and working therapeutically with autistic adults, young people and children. I am also involved both regionally and nationally in a variety of initiatives relating to both autism diagnosis and the delivery of autism informed mental health care. 

Catherine Baker

The Snowdrop Project

About the Speaker

Cat's role is Child Trafficking Transitions Specialist (IMSA®) at the Snowdrop Project and she has over 9 years’ experience advocating for the rights of survivors of trafficking, exploitation and torture. In her current role Cat provides independent advocacy, advice and support to a caseload of survivors of modern slavery aged 16-25. Before that, Cat supported survivors of torture and trafficking with casework in a therapeutic community setting. Cat previously worked at ECPAT UK (Every Child Protected Against Trafficking), where she was involved in policy, campaigns and research around the rights of young trafficking survivors. 

Prof. Dame Lesley Regan

Imperial College London

About the Speaker

Professor Dame Lesley Regan is a gynaecologist, academic, and leading advocate for women’s health. She is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Imperial College London and an Honorary Consultant at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Her clinical and research work focuses on miscarriage, reproductive health, menopause, and improving women’s healthcare services. She has been a major influence in shaping national policy and clinical standards in the UK.

She previously served as President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and is Chair of Wellbeing of Women, a leading UK women’s health charity.

In 2022, she was appointed England’s first Women’s Health Ambassador, advising the UK government on reducing inequalities in women’s health. She has also been awarded a Damehood for services to medicine and women’s healthcare.

Prof. Tammi Walker

Durham University

About the Speaker

Professor Tammi Walker is a Professor of Forensic Psychology at Durham University and Principal of St Cuthbert’s Society. 
She leads research on women in prisons and forensic mental health services, focusing on self-harm, severe mental illness, and health inequalities, with strong patient and public involvement.

She has published widely, including award-winning work on self-harm in women’s prisons, and is founding Series Editor of New Frontiers in Forensic Psychology.

Grace Wilsher

We Are With You

About the Speaker

Grace Willsher is the Regional Head of YP Services (North) at WithYou. After a strong career in the VAWG sector, Grace joined WithYou in 2022 bringing a wealth of experience and knowledge in working with young people and safeguarding.

Grace has a particular interest in Ketamine and Young People having seen first hand the impact that it can have. WithYou is a drug, alcohol and mental health charity. With over 80 services across England and Scotland, they provide support and advice to more than 100,000 people a year. They are working towards a future free from harm caused by alcohol, drug and mental health challenges, where anyone seeking help feels welcomed, not judged.

Laura Overfield

Leeds City Council

About the Speaker

Laura Overfield is an Advanced Public Health Specialist at Leeds City Council with expertise in commissioning, programme delivery and health improvement. She leads tobacco and nicotine work across Leeds, including stop smoking services and initiatives such as smokefree school gates and sidelines, incentive schemes, primary care projects, smoking in pregnancy programmes, and communications to increase uptake.

Laura has experience managing large‑scale programmes and budgets and working across partnerships including the NHS, education, sports clubs, and community, voluntary and faith sectors. She holds a BSc in Public Health Nutrition and a MSc in Public Health and Health Promotion, with additional training in population health management, commissioning and system leadership. Outside of work, Laura enjoys travelling, staying active and cooking.

Emma Benniston

Spectrum Community Health CIC

About the Speaker

Emma is a healthcare professional at Spectrum Community Health CIC, a not-for-profit organisation delivering specialist community health services across the North of England. She works within a multidisciplinary environment focused on improving health outcomes for people facing complex social and health challenges, including vulnerable and underserved populations.

Zac Dolan

Locala Health & Wellbeing

About the Speaker

Advanced clinical practitioner specialising in sexual and reproductive health working across West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester targeting marginalised populations.

Jodie Stabler

The Bridge Project

About the Speaker

Liaison case worker Lotus project
Previous experience in forensic supported accommodation, mental health and prison inreach use.

Dave Memery

Create Strength Group

About the Speaker

With a background in IT, education, research and addiction & recovery, Dave is the Founder and CEO of Create Strength Group, the Lived Experience Recovery Organisation partner in the New Vision Bradford Drug & Alcohol treatment service.

Dave founded Create Strength Group in 2015 in response to service users need for meaningful support for chronic problematic use of Cannabis, Spice and Synthetic Substances. He has witnessed first-hand the harms addiction can bring to the individual, their family and loved ones and the wider community.  Dave shares a passion for recovery and believes everyone has the chance to turn their lives around and contribute positively to the communities they live in.

Sarah Boon

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys
NHS Foundation Trust

About the Speaker

Autism Lived Experience Lead (TeesEsk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust)     

I joined the Trustwide Autism Service 2 years ago as the first Autism Lived Experience Lead in the team. The purpose of my role is to bring and centre autistic people’s lived experiences to all the work the Trustwide autism service does across Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. I have extensive experience creating and delivering training about autism and working with autistic people in the charity sector before joining the NHS. 

Rachel Mullan-Feroze

The Snowdrop Project

About the Speaker

Rachel is Head of operations at the Snowdrop Project where she have been working since early 2021. Rachel has been working in the Third Sector for over 30 years working in women’s refuge, providing support to women exploited in on-street prostitution and as Service Manager for a specialist BME organisation where she was responsible for overseeing the delivery of an appropriate good practice response to around 500 survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery.

 Rachel has delivered training on all aspects of the above areas of work, and in particular, have trained and presented on issues around human trafficking and modern slavery on a national and regional level. Rachel was also part of a group that wrote the Trafficking Survivor Care Standards, recognised as the good practice toolkit for the provision of trauma-informed survivor support.

Throughout Rachel's long experience, she has witnessed too many occasions where systems that are designed to protect the vulnerable serve to further compound the trauma they have experienced, and she is committed to supporting the people she works with to access social, moral, and legal justice.

Paula Harriott

Unlock

About the Speaker

Paula Harriott is CEO of Unlock, a charity supporting people with criminal records and challenging stigma and systemic barriers. She is a leading lived-experience advocate focused on criminal justice reform, human rights, and knowledge equity.

She co-hosts The Secret Life of Prisons, is an Associate at the University of Chester, and has founded and contributed to major lived-experience initiatives and publications in criminal justice.

Lizzie Greenwood

Wakefield Council

About the Speaker

Lizzie Greenwood is a Public Health Principal (Partnership Commissioning) based in Wakefield Council, with 12 years’ experience across local government and public health. She oversees a broad prevention, place and policy portfolio, focused on tackling health inequalities through whole‑system, evidence‑based approaches. Lizzie leads strategic commissioning and partnership delivery across areas including tobacco and nicotine control, mental health, food and nutrition, workplace health, gambling harms, and substance use.

Lizzie specialises in translating evidence into practical action, with expertise in prevention, equity‑focused commissioning and collaborative models that improve outcomes for underserved communities. She holds a BSc in Public Health Nutrition and a MSc in Public Health and Health Promotion. Outside of work, she enjoys biking, running and spending time outdoors.

Helen Goddard

Leeds City Council

About the Speaker

Helen Goddard is an Advanced Health Improvement Specialist at Leeds City Council, specialising in tobacco and nicotine control, workforce development and system‑wide public health improvement. She leads work on youth vaping, illicit tobacco and smoking cessation workforce development, working across local authorities, NHS partners, community organisations and elected members to deliver evidence‑based action on complex issues.

Helen previously led a nationally accredited Foundation Programme in Public Health across the North East, Yorkshire and Humber. She holds a MSc in Public Health and brings experience from frontline delivery to strategic commissioning, with a strong focus on data‑driven decision‑making, behavioural insights and reducing health inequalities through collaboration. Outside of work, Helen enjoys running, weight training and gardening.

Caroline Webster

Forensic Psychologist- IOM P&P Service

About the Speaker

Caroline has over 25 years' experience working with adult men in HMPPS and the community. This work involves completing trauma informed rehabilitation in either a group or 1:1 setting to help them understand their sexual behaviours, risk assessments, training, supervision and consultancy. 

Caroline is currently working as a consultant for the Isle of Man Prison and Probation Service, and she is a trustee and facilitator on Talking Forward (TF).  She is also completing her PhD research entitled 'Exploring the impact a therapeutic intervention has on Partner, Relative and/or Ex partner's (PRE’s) ability to process the ‘The Knock’'.   Caroline is an accredited EMDR therapist and advanced CFT practitioner, using both modes of therapy in her work with clients and CFT in reflective supervision with staff.  

Lisa Batty

The Bridge Project

About the Speaker

Senior case work at the lotus project
Previous experience in supporting drug treatment in the women’s clinic.
Sex worker advocate to the police and involved in research involvement of health inequalities with sex workers
Lived experience of street-based sex working and substance use.

Anna Smith

HMPPS Rehabilitation Directorate

About the Speaker

Anna is the Key Threat Lead within the Drug and Alcohol Group at HMPPS. In her current role, she leads a team focused on identifying emerging threats, managing associated risks through policy and practice, and developing effective harm reduction strategies. She also oversees the agency’s response to synthetic opioids and leads on the rollout and procurement of nasal naloxone.

Anna joined HMPPS in 2008 as an Officer at HMP Risley and progressed through the ranks to Governor grade. She has worked across a range of prisons in the Northwest before moving to Headquarters in 2020, where she now specialises in strategic threat management and harm reduction.

Anne Cahill

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys
NHS Foundation Trust

About the Speaker

Anne is the Nurse Consultant with the Trustwide Autism Service, Tees Esk and Wear Valley’s NHS Foundation Trust. She is a registered learning disabilities nurse with 25 years’ experience working with autistic people in a variety of services including health, education and social care.

Anne has a wide range of experience in specialist intervention, diagnostic assessment, post diagnostic support and training.

Ellis Swan

Spectrum Community
Health CIC

About the Speaker

Ells works within Spectrum in a secure prison environment, with a strong focus on improving access to primary care, health promotion and patient engagement.

His work includes developing and delivering services that support women’s health, social prescribing, peer mentor programmes and preventative healthcare within custody.

He is passionate about reducing health inequalities, improving patient choice and ensuring people in secure settings receive compassionate, person-centred and effective care.

Dr David Patton

University of Derby

About the Speaker

Dr David Patton is an Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Derby’s Social, Cultural and Legal Research Centre. His work focuses on recovery-oriented systems, lived experience leadership, and how health, justice, and policy systems interact to support or hinder addiction recovery and desistance.

He is founder of New Central Media, a co-produced publishing platform amplifying lived experience in addiction recovery and justice involvement. It has published three books featuring 41 authors, with 100% of profits returned to contributors.

Previously a Senior Researcher at the University of Cambridge, he has led projects funded by the Home Office, ESRC, NIHR, the Big Lottery Fund, and local authorities. He is an international keynote speaker and has presented at the United Nations.

He also advises His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (CSAAP) and serves as National Recovery Advisor to the Government of Serbia.