Organisational Management Group

The Operational Management Group (OMG) is made up of volunteers from a range of backgrounds, with a particular interest in men's health in Scotland.  They bring together a broad range of experience and expertise from academic, voluntary and statutory sectors.

The OMG has four key areas of responsibility:

• Financial management of the organisation
• Strategic direction of the work we develop
• Consensus on policy statements and consultations
• Employment of the Men's Health Forum Scotland staff team

Organisational Management Group members

Tim Street, Chair

Tim Street has been involved with MHFS since 2001 when he was appointed as its first National Co-ordinator.  At the time this was a role which was very much focused on building up networks and partnerships between a host of varied organisations across Scotland and getting them to consider men's health as an issue.  On leaving this post in 2003 he joined the Operational Management Group of MHFS and was elected Chair in the summer of 2005.  This fits well with what he wants to achieve through his working life, as he is very interested in the improvement of health and well being through appropriate and thorough training of people to communicate to the highest possible standard with others.  Tim works as a freelance trainer and consultant (www.timstreet.org).

Dave Morran

Dave Morran currently works as a Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Stirling. From 1989 - 1996 he was joint founder of the CHANGE Programme, the first probation based group work programme in the UK to work with men who had been convicted of violence against their partners. He has had considerable experience of training probation officers and social workers throughout the UK in the development and delivery of such programmes, and has more recently been providing training on the impact of men’s abuseive behaviour upon themselves – physically, psychologically and emotionally. Dave who is co-author, with Monica Wilson of Men Who Are Violent to Women – A Groupwork Practice Manual. Dave continues to work directly with men in Glasgow who have been convicted of violence. He is also involved in developing services for men in the West of Scotland who have not been brought before the courts but whose violence and abusive behaviour are nevertheless a cause for concern to others and to themselves.

Dave is currently conducting research into processes of behaviour change among men who are damaging to themselves and others, interviewing ‘formerly violent’ men throughout the UK and Ireland. He is the author of several publications in the field of working with men’s violence and with other pracitioners in this field is currently editing a book aimed directly at men who are concerned about the self damaging and abusive behaviour.

Email: dcmorran@yahoo.co.uk

Mobile: 07884 207418

John MacKenzie

John is a professionally qualified Psychiatric Social Worker/Mental Health Officer/Trainer who became interested in promoting men’s health issues as an indirect result of his appointment to Fife Health Council in 1998.

He has a strong commitment to reducing or eradicating inequalities and believes men can learn lessons from womens efforts to improve their own health care.

John serves as an appointed member of the Health Professions Council and has recently also been appointed to the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland.

Jim Leishman

Jim Leishman BA, RGN, RMN, Dip DN works as a Charge Nurse/Men’s Health Co-ordinator with NHS Forth Valley.

In February 2001 he co-developed a service aimed at improving the health of men.

Since then the service has gone from strength to strength.

Known nationally as the Forth Valley model the Camelon Centre is viewed by many including the Scottish Executive as the way ahead for developing services aimed at improving the health of Scotland’s men.

Jim’s work has featured in numerous publications. He regularly presents at national and international conferences and in partnership with the Men’s Health Forum Scotland provides training on men’s health issues.

Lindsay Johnson

My own professional background includes working for a number of years as research fellow based at Glasgow Caledonian University. My research to date has examined NHS service delivery in relation to gender and mental health. I have also worked as a telephone counsellor on mental health and sexual health helplines and as a development worker with local and national mental health service user-led organisations. I am currently on a career break from academic life and am working independently on a consultancy basis with one of the Scottish NHS Boards in their review of mental health services.

Mandy Judd

Mandy has been involved with the Men’s Health Forum since 2005, when she joined the steering group for the MHFS 10k. Mandy started her career in nursing and after several years, she joined Pfizer as a trainee representative. Having worked in a variety of roles including Sales, Training and Management, she became an Account Manager in 2005. In this role she is responsible for engaging with the NHS at all levels, working as an active partner on projects, which result in improvements in the quality of care delivered to patients.

Carol Emslie

Carol Emslie is a research scientist at the MRC Social and Public Health Science Unit in Glasgow.  Her research over the last decade focuses on gender and health, specifically, how the social context of being a man or a woman influences health and health-related behaviours.  Recent work explores men's experiences of depression, how young men experience hair loss after treatment for cancer, men's perceptions of heart disease, and hazardous drinking among men of different ages in the west of Scotland.  The research on men and depression was incorporated into the Men's Health Forum's (England and Wales) policy document on men's mental health ("Mind your head").

More information at:

http://www.sphsu.mrc.ac.uk/staff.php?staffID=CE

http://www.sphsu.mrc.ac.uk/research_programs.php?progID=GH

Kerri McPherson

Kerri is a Chartered Health Psychologist and lecturer in Psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University.  Her research interests include the psychology of weight management and eating behaviours in men and body image.  She is particularly interested in the development of body image and body aesthetics in men and the relationship these share with other weight-related psychological phenomena.  Indeed, in recent months, Kerri co-authored a chapter in Hazardous Waist and has a variety of other publications.

Billy Pate

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Gerry Hassan

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