Speakers

• Professor Alan Emond

  Clinical academic paediatrician

  Alan Emond is a clinical academic paediatrician who holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Child Health at the University of Bristol, where he was director of the Centre for Child and Adolescent Health from 2003-2018. He was one of the founders of the the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC- Children of the Nineties), and has published widely on developmental and behavioural topics using this cohort, including studies on the impact of lead exposure in pregnancy and childhood. National leadership roles have included chair of the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (BPSU), chair of the British Association of Community Child Health (BACCH), and senior editor for the 5th edition of Health for All Children (2019). He has advised successive UK governments on policy for children, and continues to work with Public Health England on child health surveillance.

• Dr Helen Crabbe

• Dr Araceli Busby

  Consultant in Health Protection at Public Health England (North East and North Central London Health Protection Team)

  Araceli Busby is a Consultant in Health Protection at Public Health England (North East and North Central London Health Protection Team). She has a PhD in Environmental Epidemiology undertaken at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine whilst working as a Research Fellow investigating environmental risk factors for congenital anomalies. She is chair of the Public Health England Lead Exposure in Children Surveillance Scheme (LEICSS)

• Professor Sally Bradberry

  Director, National Poisons Information Service (Birmingham Unit) and West Midlands Poisons Unit.

  Sally Bradberry is Director, National Poisons Information Service (Birmingham Unit) and West Midlands Poisons Unit. She is an expert in poisoning in children and adults, and has a special interest in lead. She is a member of the LEICSS steering group.