Expert Details

Health Impact Assessment

ID: 728019 United Kingdom

Expert has 25 years experience of international health impact assessment. He has written many guidelines, run many training courses, assess many projects, advised many agencies. He has written guidance for development banks, transnational corporations, public authorities, governments, and UN agencies. He has worked in many developing countries as well as the UK. He has particular experience of water resource development, extractive industries, housing and urban regeneration.

Retrospective HIA of a desert-based gasfield project for ENI in Pakistan.Prospective HIA of a housing regeneration programme in Liverpool for a registered social landlordprospective HIA of a gas field for Shell in the Netherlands.commission to draft guidance on health impact assessment for the ICMM.

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Education

Year	Degree	Subject	Institution
Year: 1977	Degree: Ph.D.	Subject: Ecology	Institution: Imperial College London
Year: 1971	Degree: Masters	Subject: Engineering	Institution: University of Illinois
Year: 1966	Degree: BSC	Subject: Engineering	Institution: University of Warwick

Work History

Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 2003 to 2005	Employer: Royal Dutch Shell	Title: Undisclosed	Department: Corporate Health Services
Responsibilities: to build the capacity for Shell to undertake HIA
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 1979 to 2002	Employer: University of Liverpool	Title: Undisclosed	Department: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Responsibilities: research and teaching. Development of the discipline of health impact assessment

Government Experience

Years	Agency	Role	Description
Years: 1990 to 1995	Agency: DFID	Role: programmeleader	Description: health impact programme

International Experience

Years	Country / Region	Summary
Years: to Present	Country / Region: Asia	Summary: frequent short visits, experience in working in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines
Years: to Present	Country / Region: Africa	Summary: frequent short visits, experience of working in Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana, Bennion, Nigeria, Zambia, South Africa,
Years: to Present	Country / Region: Middle East	Summary: frequent short visits, experience of working in Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Dubai, Bahrain, Israel, Syria, Iran
Years: to Present	Country / Region: Europe	Summary: based in UK and experience of working there. Experience of other European countries
Years: to Present	Country / Region: America	Summary: short visits to Ecuador

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
International Association for Impact Assessment

Professional Appointments
editorial board of the environmental assessment review

Awards / Recognition
individual award of the International Association for Impact Assessment

Publications and Patents Summary
about 100 publications including several books

Additional Experience

Training / Seminars
Expert has run many training courses and seminars on health impact assessment in many countries of the world

Marketing Experience
Expert has worked for the oil industry in a senior technical position

Other Relevant Experience
Expert has extensive knowledge of environmental issues including climate change and peak oil

Language Skills

Language	Proficiency
French	Rusty

Fields of Expertise

health, health assessment, infectious disease transmission, international development, environment, environmental impact assessment, public health, environmental impact statement