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Leo Downer -
Regional Drugs Advisor, Govt of London
John
Guillebaud MA FRCSE FRCOG
Emeritus Professor of Family Planning and Reproductive Health, UC London
John
Guillebaud - pronounced in 2 syllables “Gil-boe”:
- In
1992 he was appointed by University College London as Professor
(now Emeritus) of Family Planning and Reproductive Health,
the first practising gynaecologist in the world to be given a personal
chair in this field.
- Ex-Medical
Director of the Margaret
Pyke Centre for Reproductive Health, London, he retains
a strong advisory role there through being a Trustee of the associated
Memorial Trust. His clinical work is now in Oxford (Churchill Hospital
and Radcliffe Infirmary)
- Believing
with UNICEF
that globally “family planning could bring more benefits to
more people at less cost than any other technology now available
to the human race”, he is frequently called on in an advisory
or consultancy capacity by WHO
and other international and national bodies.
- Originator
of the Environment
Time Capsule Project based at Kew Gardens, he is author
or co-author of seven books and more than 300 other publications
for the medical profession and the general public: on issues relating
to birth control, reproductive health, population and environmental
sustainability.
http://www.ecotimecapsule.com
www.optimumpopulation.org
www.peopleandplanet.net
"We
did not inherit the world from our grandparents, we borrowed it from
our grandchildren"
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Kathy
French RGN, BSc, MPhil, Cert Ed, A-08, PhD Student
Sexual Health Advisor to the RCN
Member of the Independent Advisory Group (IAG) on sexual health at
the Department of Health, UK
Previous
experience:
Lecturer in contraception on courses at Kings College, London
Clinical Nurse Manager Contraception/Abortion Services, Kings College
Hospital, London
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Justin
Gaffney BSc, RN
Consultant Nurse for STI Control – Sexual Health Information
& Protection Team
c/o Jefferiss Wing Centre for Sexual Health, St Mary’s NHS Trust
Hospital,
Praed Street, London W2 1NY
Present
Chair of the Genito-Urinary Nurses Association (GUNA), Justin set
up and ran The Working Men Project at St Mary's in the mid 1990s to
offer a quality sexual health promotion and HIV prevention service
to men who sell sex. The Project now has around 1,000 registered users
and supports over 50 clients a week through outreach work and in clinics.
He is
an internationally recognised figure in the field of sexual health
education and has many academic publications to his name.
He is
heavily involved with the http://www.wmplondon.org.uk/
and is editor of the GUNA Chronicles, a regular newsletter for colleagues
working in the field of sexual health offering international updates
on a regular basis.
The Working Men Project is a partner member of the European Network
Male Prostitution (ENMP), and can provide information on appropriate
services for male sex workers across the European Communities.
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Dr
Rob Hicks MBBS, DRCOG, MRCGP
General Practitioner and Broadcast Doctor
Picture from information about Rob on BBC.co.uk
Rob qualified
at St Mary's Hospital, London in 1989 and then did a variety of hospital
medical jobs before entering general practice in 1992.
He now
works part-time in general practice and as a hospital clinical assistant
in sexual health medicine. His special interests are men's, women's,
and children's health, complementary therapies, nutrition, and health
promotion.
Rob appears
regularly on television and radio, and has presented live radio and
webcast shows, and recorded video and CD-Rom programmes.
He contributes
regularly to Metro newspaper, Healthy, Men's Fitness, Healthy Living,
and Prima Baby magazines and has also written for numerous other publications.
An editor
and prolific contributor to the BBC online health sites, he is also
the medical script adviser to the successful BBC television drama
series "Doctors".
Over
the years he has written for most of the general practice professional
publications on health, motoring, and finance, something he still
enjoys doing.
He gives
talks for consumer, professional and corporate audiences and during
his many years as a communications consultant to a central London
Health Authority has become an accomplished media-trainer.
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Helen
Knox - click here to see more information
about Helen
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Workshop
Facilitators
Emily
Dubberley
(30)
Emily
studied psychology at university, specialising in sexuality and covering
topics including male and female attitudes to pornography and whether
women want their fantasies to come true.
She founded
http://www.cliterati.co.uk
in 2001; a text-based sex website for women featuring erotic stories,
a problem page, sex news, features and more. It currently attracts
over 700,000 page impressions per month. In 2004, she launched spin-off
site, www.bibibaby.com;
a free dating site for bi-curious women.
Emily
wrote the two most recent Lovers' Guide videos, Sex Positions and
Sex Play, and has been commissioned to write the next Lovers' Guide
video. She edited the Lovers' Guide magazine and helped create http://www.loversguide.com.
These projects also involved art-directing adult photo-shoots, so
she's used to working with naked people.
In addition
to videos and websites, Emily had written several books. The Lovers'
Guide Lovemaking Deck (Connections, £9.99) was released in February
2004, and she is currently working on two books for publication in
Spring 2005; Brief Encounters: The Essential Guide to Casual Sex (Vision)
and Everything a Woman Needs to Know About Seduction (Carlton).
Emily
is the editor of Scarlet: a magazine for women launching in October
this year. Encompassing sex, style and a sassy attitude, Scarlet will
be a mainstream news-stand title, aimed at 21-35 year old women.
Emily's contact book has over 3,500 entries; everything from burlesque
performers to erotic photographers, as well as marketers, authors,
entrepreneurs and pretty much anyone else you can imagine. She was
short-listed for campaigner of the year in last year's Erotic Awards,
and has been involved in several fundraising events for sexual health/sex
education charities.
Emily
has regular slots on LBC, London Live and Kerrang! radio, and is frequently
quoted as a sexpert in magazines including Cosmopolitan, Elle, Company.
She has been involved with TV shows for Sky One, BBC2 and ITV, hosted
a live text-in sex, love and relationships show on Friendly TV and
co-presented QVC-style advertorials for the Jessica Rabbit, currently
running on numerous shopping channels across cable and satellite.
She is
a regular contributor to More magazine, Men's Health and the Daily
Star, specialising in sex features, writes a fortnightly 'Sex and
Loving' newsletter for messagizer.com and writes for numerous other
publications and websites including The Guardian, Blink and iVillage.co.uk.
She has also worked as a sexpert for Trojan Condoms, Virgin Megastores
and Piat D'or. She's written SMS sex tips for various clients including
Channel Four, and is 'Chief Orgasm Officer' on sex toy site, http://www.lovehoney.co.uk
(which entails reviewing sex toys – possibly the best job in
the world!)
Furthermore,
she has persuaded the publishers of her first book to make a donation
for each copy of her book sold in the UK, and overseas, to support
SEXplained… Foundation.
With
her background in psychology, and her interest in promoting positive
sexual health, Emily's new magazine for women launches soon - check
out Scarlet
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Pete
Westmore
Pete
spends his time thinking about condoms & sex, running a distribution
scheme (for condoms that is, not sex) in Kensington & Chelsea
and Westminster. If you want to talk condoms & partnership work
in these two boroughs call him on 020 7150 8153.
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Leo
Downer
BSc Hons Psychology, MLS Microbiology
Former
Director of Brixton Drug Project, Leo trained at University College,
London in psychology after working at Gt Ormond St Hospital, London
as a bacteriologist and virologist.
Combining
the disciplines of microbiology and psychology led him to work in
HIV prevention with intravenous drug users in south London. He co-ordinated
the GP Prescribing Network, Managing Addiction Towards HIV Prevention.
Thereafter he co-ordinated the development of, and became Director
of, the Brixton Drug Project, an agency that worked with stimulant
and psychedelic drug users, trained health and social care professionals
and published drug education material.
He has
lectured in Europe on stimulant drug use, particularly cocaine and
crack, and has worked with agencies in the USA and the Caribbean,
developing cocaine treatment programs.
He currently
works as a Regional Drugs Advisor for the Govt of London (GOL).
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