Membership
Membership details of the Technical Advisory Cell (TAC) and Technical Advisory Group (TAG).
Both TAC and TAG are co-chaired by Dr Orford, Chief Scientific Advisor for Health, and Fliss Bennee, HSS Deputy Director for Technology and Digital.
Membership is drawn from Welsh Government, NHS Wales and academia. A range of experts from different disciplines are included covering public health, health protection, medicine, epidemiology, modelling, technology, data science, statistics, environment, microbiology, molecular biology, immunology, genomics, behavioural insights, risk communication, physical sciences and research.
Listed below are the names and positions of participants and Welsh Government officials who attend TAG to provide expert input. Officials from Welsh Government who regularly attend but do not act in this capacity have not been named.
Membership of TAG is kept under review as the need for expert advice is identified.
| Name | Position and organisation |
|---|---|
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Fliss Bennée |
Deputy Director, Technology and Digital Data, Welsh Government |
|
Dr Rob Orford |
Chief Scientific Advisor for Health, Welsh Government |
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Dr Frank Atherton |
Chief Medical Officer for Wales, Welsh Government |
|
Dr Brendan Collins |
TAC Head of Health Economics, Welsh Government |
|
Dr Tom Connor |
Pathogen Genomics, Public Health Wales |
|
Dr Simon Cottrell |
Principal Epidemiologist (Respiratory infection and vaccine preventable disease), Public Health Wales |
|
Dr Eleri Davies |
Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Public Health Wales |
|
Dr John Day |
Chair of the Welsh Scientific Advisory Committee |
|
Dr Andrew Fry |
Director, Wales Gene Park |
|
Prof Christianne Glossop |
Chief Veterinary Officer, Welsh Government |
|
Prof Mike Gravenor |
BioMedical Sciences, Institute of Life Science |
|
Prof Peter Halligan |
Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales, Welsh Government |
|
Stephanie Howarth |
Chief Statistician, HSS, Welsh Government |
|
Dr Robin Howe |
Consultant Microbiologist, Public Health Wales |
|
Prof Ann John |
Professor in Public Health and Psychiatry, Swansea University |
|
Prof Stephen Jolles |
Consultant Clinical Immunologist, University Hospital Wales |
|
Prof Davey Jones |
Professor of Soil & Environmental Science, Bangor University |
|
Dr Rachel Jones |
Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Public Health Wales |
|
Marion Lyons |
Senior Medical Officer, Population Health, Welsh Government |
|
Prof Ronan Lyons |
Co-Director, SAIL Databank, Swansea University |
|
Dr Catherine Moore |
Microbiology Clinical Scientist, Public Health Wales |
|
John Morris |
Head of Data Science Unit, Welsh Government |
|
Dr Huw Morris |
Group Director (Skills, Higher Education and Life-long learning), Welsh Government |
|
Dr Heather Payne |
Child Health Senior Medical Officer, Welsh Government |
|
Jonathan Price |
Chief Economist, Welsh Government |
|
Dr Martin Rolles |
Vice-Chair of the Welsh Scientific Advisory Committee |
|
Andrew Sallows |
HSS Delivery Programme Director, Welsh Government |
|
Prof Julian Sampson |
Division of Cancer and Genetics, Cardiff University |
|
Dr Giri Shankar |
Professional Lead for Health Protection, Public Health Wales |
|
Craiger Solomons |
Lead analyst, Primary Care & Health Science Directorate, Welsh Government |
|
Prof Kieran Walshe |
Director of Health and Care Research Wales, Welsh Government |
|
Prof Andrew Weightman |
Head of Organisms and Environment Division, Cardiff University |
|
Dr Christopher Williams |
Consultant Epidemiologist, Public Health Wales |