Terms of reference
Members

Terms of reference

To advise the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Advisory Committee on the behavioural and communication science matters relating to the health response to an influenza pandemic.
The sub-group will provide expert advice to the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Advisory Committee (SPI), which advises UK Government on scientific matters relating to the health response to an influenza pandemic. The Sub-Group will play a critical role in ensuring that, through SPI, the UK Government is provided with a high standard of scientific advice in relation to the behavioural science and communication aspects of planning and responding to a pandemic in the UK. The sub-group will also ensure that the UK Government is kept informed of any new developments in science and research that could impact on its pandemic influenza preparedness policies.

Members of the Group will:

• bring relevant experience to the Group;
• contribute to the provision of high quality and considered advice to UK Ministers;
• be expected to make a full and considered contribution to the work of the Sub-Group, and to contribute fully to the debate and to the decision making processes;
• provide expert guidance when an issue which falls within their particular area of expertise is under discussion;
• contribute to the debate in the capacity of a well-informed professional where the issue does not fall within their expertise;
• be prepared, as requested by the Secretariat, to provide expert advice on relevant issues outside Group meetings;
  

Members

• (Chair) Professor Susan Michie
  Chair in Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, UCL
  
  
• Professor Andy Alaszewski
  Director and Professor of Health Studies Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent
  
  
• Dr Val Curtis
  Director & Reader in Hygiene, The Hygiene Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  
  
• Dr Paul Gully
  Director of Policy Analysis and Communications, World Health Organisation
  
  
• Professor Mike Kelly
  Public Health Excellence Centre Director, NICE
  
  
• Professor Theresa Marteau
  Professor of Health Psychology, King's College London
  
  
• Professor Lucy Yardley
  Professor of Health Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Southampton

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