Ralph Land, CBE
Ralph joined HealthProm as a Trustee in 1995, when he was then Director of Rolls-Royce and responsible for the development of their Eastern European markets. He has extensive experience in the region, and particular interest in the challenges associated with the transition from former communist regimes to free markets and the resulting health and social care issues. During his tenure as a Trustee, he contributed extensively to fundraising, governance, financial oversight and recruitment of senior staff. Ralph retired as a Trustee in 2015, assuming the new role of HealthProm Patron.
Professor Martin McKee, CBE FMedSci
Martin is Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In the early 1990s he founded the European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, a WHO collaborating centre specialising on the health effects of rapid social, economic, and political change in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He is also one of the founders of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, a partnership of universities, governments, and international organisations. He has been a president of the European Public Health Association, editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Public Health, and has chaired the UK Society for Social Medicine, the Global Health Advisory Committee of the Open Societies (Soros) Foundation, and the WHO European Advisory Committee on Health Research.
Professor Neena Modi
Neena is a Professor of Neonatal Medicine at Imperial College London, a Consultant at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, and President of the UK Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Neena qualified from the University of Edinburgh, and trained at University College Hospital London and Liverpool University. She leads a multidisciplinary neonatal research programme focused on the perinatal determinants of life-long health. She has held a large number of national roles including President of the UK Neonatal Society, President of the Academic Paediatrics Association of Great Britain and Ireland, Chair of the British Medical Journal Ethics Committee, and Chair of the NHS England Infant, Children and Young People Patient Safety Expert Group. Neena has a deep commitment to advancing the care of the sick newborns in low-resource settings. She has undertaken voluntary teaching and training abroad including work for HealthProm in Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union.
Dame Philippa Russell, DBE
Dame Russell was formerly a Commissioner with the UK Government’s Disability Rights Commission (DRC) and Director of the Council for Disabled Children. She led the DRC's Formal Investigation into health inequalities for people with learning disabilities and/or mental health problems. She is a member of NHS England’s Commitments to Carers Delivery Board and of the Ministerial Advisory Group on the Mental Health Strategy. She was also the former Chair of the Government’s Standing Commission on Carers. She is Vice-President of Carers UK and a Patron of Carers Support, West Sussex. She is currently working with the UK Department of Health and other Government Departments on the development and delivery of the statutory guidance and regulations for the Care Act, and and is a member of a number of Care Quality Commission and National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) Advisory Bodies. She has been awarded the OBE, CBE and DBE for services to disabled people and to families and carers.
Robert Scallon
Robert was a HealthProm Trustee for over ten years and transitioned to the role of Patron in 2018. He studied at Oxford University and worked for Barclays Bank between 1967 and 1997. As export Finance Director with Barclays he traveled extensively through Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He also served as treasurer of the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce for eight years. He is currently a Trustee of the BEARR Trust and FaRiG (Friends of Academic Research in Georgia).