Founder, belly bugs

After graduating from Edinburgh University in 1987 with a PhD in Ancient Greek, David worked in the marketing department of ICI in Manchester. He founded his own advertising agency, Cheetham Bell, in 1992 which was bought by WPP in 2000.

David was CEO of the Manchester office of JWT and Creative Director at global digital agency, Mirum. David left the advertising world in 2017 to develop Belly Bugs, the children’s IP he created that introduces kids to their gut microbes and, as research is showing, is the silver bullet for childhood nutrition.

CEO, Black Pear Software and the Chair of Trustees , Public Health Collaboration

‘Dr. David Jehring, has a distinguished 20-year career as an NHS family doctor.  His journey in healthcare technology began with the pioneering development of the UK’s first Windows GP clinical system. This foundation paved the way for the evolution of Black Pear Software, which now empowers healthcare professionals, especially in critical areas like A&E and hospices, to access comprehensive and up-to-date patient information. This not only ensures enhanced quality of care but also respects and integrates patients’ wishes regarding their treatment, making healthcare more personalised and patient-centric.

In addition to his medical and technical contributions, Dr. Jehring has trained with the British Society for Ecological Medicine, emphasising nutrition and environmental medicine. After joining the Public Health Collaboration as a trustee, he was recently appointed Chair of Trustees, reflecting his commitment to promoting metabolic health through lifestyle choices.

Parallel to his medical interests, Dr. Jehring advocates for regenerative farming practices. He has actively sought knowledge from experts in the field to enhance soil quality at his farm in Worcestershire. Underlining the connection between soil and human health, he recently hosted “Pear Fest – From Soil to Soul”, a conference that brought together professionals from both the farming and medical communities.’

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founder member of charity Public Health Collaboration UK

Originally from the North of Ireland, moved to Manchester to study Medicine.

After becoming a GP in 1990, Joanne became especially interested in diet and health in 2013 when she observed the impact of ketogenic diets on childhood epilepsy and that of low carb diets on reversing diabetes.

Joanne was also named GP for Safeguarding Children and recognises the systematic harm done to children by UPF and sugar sweetened beverages in diets and views this as a safeguarding issue.

From 2016, a founder member of the charity Public Health Collaboration UK.

Consultant in Public Health, West Sussex County Council

Dr Samantha Taplin is a Consultant in Public Health for West Sussex County Council, leading on children and young people’s public health and wellbeing. Sam qualified as a public health specialist in 2022 and joined the West Sussex team in April 2023.

Qualified as a medical Doctor, she has extended her studies to include MScs in Public Health Nutrition (University of Southampton) and Public Health (LSHTM). Before starting her specialist training in 2013, Sam worked as a clinician in both hospital and general practice settings. Inspired by these experiences, her work has particularly focused on health inequalities, child development and nutrition.

In her role, Sam works closely with colleagues across from children’s services, health and community organisations, providing specialist public health support and leadership. She is a member of the Children’s First Board in West Sussex, and the Local Maternity and Neonatal Programme Board.

Strategic Lead:  Health Innovation Hub, The University of Brighton

Joanna Havers is the strategic lead for Knowledge Exchange at the University of Brighton, spearheading efforts to drive economic development and foster connections between the public, private and community sectors in the region. At the forefront of these initiatives is the Health Innovation Hub, an ambitious project aimed at tackling regional health challenges through cutting-edge research and innovation.

“By fostering and developing deep routed collaborations, we are co-creating solutions to address critical issues such as complex medical needs, health inequalities, workforce shortages and emerging retention patterns, amongst other challenges facing the health and care sectors.”

Joanna’s background in the voluntary sector, where she worked with healthcare and mental health organisations, gives her valuable insight into the intersection of health and community, further informing her leadership in this pivotal regional project.

Co-Founder, The Gut Stuff

Prior to founding The Gut Stuff, as The Mac Twins, with her identical twin sister they’d done everything from DJing at the Olympics, to presenting on the Brits red carpet, regular live radio shows for BBC 1xtra and Virgin Radio, creating their own DJ gaming live battle show and being the Official Love Island DJ’s, but they can now add business women to that list and The Gut Stuff is their proudest venture to date.

The Gut Stuff was built to democratise gut health and now has a highly successful snacking range, a corporate wellness services business, 3 books, a consumer focused gut health app and even their very own (now global) tv show “Know your sh!t”.

Professor of Public Health & Health Promotion, the University of Brighton

Nigel Sherriff is Professor of Public Health & Health Promotion at the University of Brighton, and Director of the Centre for Transforming Sexuality & Gender (CTSG).

Professor Sherriff’s research interests are driven strongly by a social justice agenda, along with a collaborative and participatory approach to research with demonstrative social impact which ultimately tackles disadvantage and inequalities in health. His programme of research spans HIV infection & other sexually transmitted infections, health systems research, health inequalities, parenting including fatherhood and breastfeeding, & vulnerable populations particularly LGBTI people.

Executive Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

Louise is the Executive Pro Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool, deputy Chair of the Board of Liverpool Health Partners, a Non-Executive Director at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital and from April 2024, the Chair of Population and Systems Medicine (PSMB) at the Medical Research Council.

She was the founding Director of the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT www.infantcentre.ie) and was Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Cork University Maternity Hospital where she worked as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist from 2006-2018.

Louise is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. She has written over 300 original scientific papers and didactic texts on the aetiology, pathogenesis, epidemiology and clinical management of this condition, supported by a portfolio of personal awards now in excess of £65 million. The work of Louise’s group has translated from the bench to clinical practice and has led to changes in guidelines both nationally and internationally. She is the founder and Principal Investigator of the Wellcome Trust funded programme Children Growing up in Liverpool (C-GULL), the first new birth cohort in the UK for two decades.

As of April 2024 Louise has taken on the role as Chair of the MRC Population and Systems Medicine Board.

Louise has received numerous awards for her work; most recently she was elected a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to research in the NHS.

Director, Public Health Collaboration UK

Sam Feltham has been in the health and fitness industry for over a decade. Starting out as a party coordinator at a sports centre he worked his way up to study at the European Institute of Fitness and qualified as a Master Personal Trainer. After 5 years of running a fitness boot camp business and a successful podcast, Sam shifted his focus to improving the health of the public through sustainable lifestyle changes by founding and directing the Public Health Collaboration (Charity no. 1171887). PHC is dedicated to cultivating a society where everyone enjoys good metabolic health.

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Toni Harman is a filmmaker, author, course creator, international speaker and champion of the microbiome.

Toni has produced and directed a number of award-winning documentary films including MICROBIRTH – about the origins of the human microbiome. MICROBIRTH has won many international film festivals and been broadcast internationally, plus has had over 1,000 public screenings worldwide.

Toni’s extensive research for MICROBIRTH led to her authoring the books THE MICROBIRTH EFFECT and YOUR BABY’s MICROBIOME.

Toni has created an online school offering accredited courses about the infant microbiome, now with over 42,000 students.

In addition, Toni has hosted two international virtual conferences. The last conference held in February 2024 was attended by over 3,500 health professionals from around the world.

Toni is currently working on a global campaign to bring awareness of the infant microbiome to parents, particularly why vaginal birth (when possible), skin-to-skin and support for exclusive breastfeeding are all so important for the optimal development of the infant microbiome, to benefit the future health of the next generation.

MICROBIRTH Global Campaign 2025 – Expression Of Interest

We are creating a global grass-roots impact campaign spearheaded by the Spring 2025 launch of our new feature-length documentary (ANNOUNCED VERY SOON). Our mission is to bring an understanding of the infant microbiome to parents and to health professionals, to potentially transform the health of the next generation. Our goal is to have 10,000 film premieres happening on the same day around the world, hosted in local communities, by people like YOU. If we can do this, we can reach up to one million parents in one day! And that’s just the start…

Express your Interest

We would love YOU to be involved. You could host a movie premiere in your local area, or simply attend a screening. Or you might have connections or ideas that can help us reach more people to create an even bigger impact. In effect, we are building a global ecosystem of people who want to be part of this global campaign in some way. If you fill in this form, we will contact you with further details in due course. No obligation. No commitment. This is simply a “Yes” I’m interested to find out more!

https://bit.ly/RegisterMICROBIRTH

More about Toni’s work can be found at:

microbirth.com
microbiomecourses.com