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Academic and Support Staff
Dr Bharat Pankhania
Dr Bharat Pankhania
Principles of Health Protection Course Lead
Senior Clinical Lecturer
Dr Bharat Pankhania has widespread experience of advising on national communicable disease control action plans at national and international level.
Dr Pankhania introduced the use of timely and accurate surveillance data to produce Quarterly Health Protection Reports to local stake holders.
Dr Pankhania qualified from the Welsh Nation Schools of Medicine, Cardiff, Wales and trained as a General Practitioner in 1989. Having had experience of both Primary and Secondary Care, Dr Pankhania realised that to make a bigger contribution to people`s health, primary prevention of illness was important, thus he trained in Public Health Medicine and thereafter did further training in infectious diseases and Communicable Disease Control.
Dr Pankhania’s experience includes:
Pandemic Influenza outbreak planning and major plan testing exercises. He was the local Lead for Pandemic Influenza planning at Public Health England and became the reference point for outbreak planning, testing systems and control strategies.
Ebola and SARS: Dr Pankhania was immersed in and contributed to the Ebola and SARS surveillance and control methodologies, specialist screening methods at ports of entry.
Tuberculosis: Dr Pankhania became an expert in investigating clusters of Tuberculosis and using newly developed tools. Investigations and controlling TB outbreaks in schools, hospitals and prisons.
Legionella: Dr Pankhania has led on and was the Legionella lead in his previous job. He investigated complex outbreaks, advised hospitals and hotels and also developed expertise in the health and safety law relating to Legionella.
Education commitment
Dr Pankhania is passionate about education and passing on knowledge about how to operate as a good doctor. He is interested in Health Protection /Communicable Disease Control.
He is enthusiastic about primary prevention of illness. A firm believer and proponent of living in harmony with the environment, incursions into the environment by mankind is leading to emergence of novel infections. Zikha, Ebola, SARS, MERS, Corona outbreaks are all examples of this.
Teaching, training and mentoring have always been Dr Pankhania’s forte, he has been the training lead for Health Protection at his Public Health England, SW Region. Additionally, he has held honorary teaching positions, for over 15 years at University of Bristol, Imperial University, University of St Mark and St John, University of West of England.
Dr Pankhania started his new post at University of Exeter Medical School in 2017 and he is head of Public Health Medicine teaching. He has been the Faculty Advisor SW Region for the Faculty of Public Health and is an examiner for their Part B examination for the last 10 years.
Email: B.Pankhania@exeter.ac.uk
LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/dr-bharat-pankhania-35987015/
Twitter: @DoctorShaib
YouTube: youtube.com/c/DoctorBharatPankhania
Facebook: www.facebook.com/doctorshaib
Dr Bharat Sibal
Dr Bharat Sibal
MBBS. MPH. MD. FFPH. PGCWCC (Distn). PGCertMed Ed (Distn)
National Border/Port Health Team - PHE
Consultant Communicable Disease Control at PHE West Midlands
Bharat is the national border/port health team of PHE CCDC and was the Lead Consultant in Communicable Disease Control working for Public Health England, Health Protection Team based in Birmingham, England UK over the last decade.
He is honorary clinical lecturer at Birmingham Medical School and honorary clinical lecturer at Warwick Medical
School, England and is the Faculty of Public Health’s UK Advisor/Regional CPD co-ordinator for West Midlands, England. He is passionate about teaching and has been mentoring medical students in at least four main universities of the UK.
He was the PHE West Midlands lead during Ebola outbreak and Zika and measles outbreaks. He has worked extensively for Polio Eradication with WHO in Nepal and India and has wide interests in control of infectious diseases regionally, nationally and internationally. Other interests include health inequalities, epidemiology, health promotion, clinical governance, public health training and risk communication.
Postgraduate and undergraduate medical student teaching/coaching/mentoring for over 20 years and medical interview preparation are other areas where he has a track record of proven success.
Bharat’s professional interests lie in system leadership; capability building and developing partnerships across boundaries to achieve system-wide innovation and impact on patient/public safety.
He is also the examiner for Part – B exam for the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians UK for over a decade.
Bharat also has a number of publications including editorials in reputed peer reviewed journals to his name over a career spanning over 25 years.
Dr Bret Palmer
Dr Bret Palmer
Consultant GUM/HIV Medicine at Royal United Hospital, Bath
Upon leaving secondary school, Bret worked in the civil service and eventually took himself to Leeds University. After leaving with a master’s degree in chemistry, he then gained entry into Bart’s and The London Medical School, an enjoyable time with a memorable stint with the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, as part of his medical elective. After qualifying as a medical doctor, he then worked in hospital-based medicine for 4 years, mainly working in emergency medicine and care of the elderly.
His hospital experience reinforced the maxim of ‘prevention is better than cure’. Most of the cases he dealt with, especially in emergency medicine, were wholly preventable. The most surprising aspect was that most of these cases had no idea of the basic life changes they needed to make in order to improve their health for the long term.
During his training as a specialist public health doctor, he studied a Master’s in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and gained by CCT in Public Health in 2016. He then decided that in order to do front line public health work, he'd step back to do Genitourinary medicine (GUM) training. He CCT in GUM and HIV medicine in 2020.
He is currently doing research into Genital Herpes. He also enjoys teaching medical students and physician associates, and also produces YouTube videos to promote access to medical education for all. He gives advice to GUM trainees wishing to gain public health training and public health trainees wishing to keep their medical expertise and practical knowledge, as in either case these skill sets are invaluable to the future of a cohesive national health service.
Dr Kev Smith
Dr Kev Smith
Regional Director Public Health Commissioning, NHS North East & Yorkshire
Kev Smith is Regional Director Public Health Commissioning for NHS England, North East and Yorkshire. He has been the principal advisor to the NHS in the region throughout the height of the COVID pandemic advising the NHS Executive team and system leaders on the likely impact on NHS services.
Dr Smita Kapadia
Dr Smita Kapadia
Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, UKHSA, East of England
Dr Smita Kapadia is a Consultant in Communicable Disease Control working within the UKHSA’s East of England Health Protection Team, where she leads the Healthcare Associated Infections & Antimicrobial Resistance workstream. Smita trained in India as well as the East of England and qualified as a consultant in 2011; she has over 15 years of communicable disease control experience and understands the challenges of controlling infectious diseases in resource-limited contexts. Smita led the East of England Health Protection Team’s COVID Response Cell. One of her current areas of focus is the ongoing Group A streptococcus situation.
Dr Tim Malone
Dr Tim Malone
NHS Research Fellow
Dr Tim Malone is an NHS Research Fellow who has been working on clinical research trials for patients with neurodegenerative disorders for over twenty years. He also has a long-term interest in sustainability and planetary health, and was appointed as one of Devon’s Sustainability and Health Ambassadors with the South Region Sustainability and Health Network in February 2017.
Dr Raphaëlle D. Haywood
Dr Raphaëlle D. Haywood
Senior Lecturer in Physics & Astronomy
Dr Raphaëlle D. Haywood is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Astrophysics and STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Exeter who hunts for planets that orbit other stars. Specifically, her research focuses on understanding the natural variability of planet-hosting stars to better characterise the planets around them. She recently advised NASA and the US National Science Foundation on designing a roadmap to discover Earth-like planets over the next decade. She is passionate about addressing social and environmental issues and am using astronomical observations to inspire people to action. She is a member of Exeter's Global Systems Institute. Before joining Exeter, she was a NASA Sagan Fellow at Harvard University. She holds a Masters in Physics from Imperial College London (2011), a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of St Andrews (2015), and a Certificate in Sustainability from the Harvard Extension School (2019).
Dr David Pencheon
Dr David Pencheon
Honorary Professor, Health and Sustainable Development
David Pencheon is a UK trained doctor and was the founder Director of the Sustainable Development Unit for NHS England and Public Health England, established in 2007. He left the SDU on 1st January 2018 and is now an Honorary Professor and an Associate at the Medical and Health School at the University of Exeter, UK, an Advisory Group member and associate with the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, a trans-disciplinary centre, and a collaborator with the European Centre for Environment and Health and the Global Systems Institute, all at the University of Exeter He has held appointments at University College London (UCL), and is a visiting Professor at the Centre for Environment and Sustainability (CES) at the University of Surrey, and was appointed an Adjunct Professor at Monash University in Melbourne in 2020. In 2018 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney, Australia.
David Pencheon was previously Director of the Public Health Observatory in Cambridge from 2001 to 2007. He has worked as a clinical doctor in the NHS, a joint Director of Public Health in North Cambridgeshire, a Public Health Training Director, with the NHS R&D programme, and in rural China in the early 1990s with Save the Children Fund (UK).
His current roles within these Departments in Exeter is to understand the role of health professionals and health systems in ensuring a safe, equitable and prosperous planet for all. This work is with both undergraduates (with Special Study Modules) and with postgraduates, particularly via the Planetary Health module of the MPH programme.
He was awarded the OBE in the 2012 New Year’s Honours List for services to public health and to the NHS. In 2020 David was awarded the BMJ's "Outstanding Contribution to Health Award".
Cecilia Mañosa Nyblon
Cecilia Mañosa Nyblon
Education and Skills Partnership Development Manager
Cecilia Mañosa Nyblon is the Education and Skills Partnership Development Manager at the University of Exeter and leads the external facing continuing professional development portfolio for the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. She has a background in anthropology, archaeology, and education. Cecilia’s professional life has grown and developed at the intersection of science and humanities in Uruguay, USA, Panama and UK. She led the creation and delivery of the successful project One Chance Left, at the intersection of climate science, health and the arts, which was showcased at Science Pavilion and beyond for COP26 Climate Change Conference. She is currently engaged in an ambitious international project between Exeter and Egypt for COP27. She is a strong advocate of planetary health in education and is a member of the Planetary Health Alliance European Hub.
Carole Miller
Carole Miller
CPD Administrator
Carole is the Administrator for the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme in the College of Medicine and Health. She joined the team from her previous role working in Student Services in a combined team representing Postgraduate Taught students in the Graduate School of Education and College of Medicine and Health and brings a lot of customer service experience with her.
Carole is the first point of contact for our CPD portfolio and provides a seamless customer service to enquiries, registrations, payments, surveys, certificates and communication. She is ready to support you throughout your journey with us and is available via email and on Teams.
Dr Sally Flint
Dr Sally Flint
CPD Co-ordinator
Sally is a writer and editor who lectures in creative writing and publishing. She has experience of working in the NHS and community settings, and has a particular interest in linking healthcare, medicine and the arts. She is creative writing lead on the successful project, One Chance Left, working with Met Office Scientists and health professionals, which was showcased at COP26 climate conference. She joins the CPD team as co-ordinator delighted to be part of developing and promoting innovative courses to improve planetary health. She is also co-founder and editor of Riptide Journal at the University of Exeter.
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