Who we are
Mark Ward
National Co-ordinator
 Mark Ward has been working in health promotion since 1998. He has a broad range of experience, having worked in both the voluntary and statutory sectors. He has substantial knowledge of training design and delivery and has developed close links with health focused organisations throughout the UK.
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Sarah McMillan
10K for Men Project Development Worker
Sarah McMillan has been working for Men’s Health Forum Scotland since the beginning of March 2005. Her job title is 10k for Men Project Development Worker and she is responsible for organising the MHFS 10k for Men which will be on June 17th 2007 and also setting up a network of Men’s Jogging Groups throughout Scotland.
Her background is varied – at Art College she specialised in large scale metalwork and set up in business back in Northern Ireland as a designer/maker. After a few years of this, Sarah no longer was happy being a starving artist so decided to work full time and keep the design work for evenings and weekends. She worked as a sales administrator in a car showroom for 18 months, which cemented in her the need to work for an organisation that contributed positively to the world – so when she and her boyfriend decided to move to Glasgow last year, she looked to working in the Voluntary sector. After spending a short stint working as an administrator for the Simon Community Street Team, she applied for an Information and Administration role with MHFS and was thrilled to be offered the post. From here she progressed to work as the Information and Network Development Worker post, before successfully applying for her current role as 10k for Men Project Development Worker. Since starting in this post, Sarah has started jogging – (it’s only fair really!).
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Maureen Dunn
Information and Network Development Worker
Maureen’s background is in administration and she has worked in various departments within Glasgow City Council, Social Work Department and NHS Scotland. Prior to moving to Men’s Health Forum Scotland, Maureen worked for the National Resource Centre for Ethnic Minority Health (NRCEMH) a unit within NHS Health Scotland. Maureen’s role was to support the various networks who’s remit was to develop sensitive and culturally competent services to black and minority ethnic groups across Scotland.
Part of Maureen’s remit was to develop the NRCEMH website to help support NHS Boards share information and good practice but also keeping them up-to-date with the latest developments in new legislation, guidance etc. “It is so important to share information as there is a lot or good work going on across Scotland that no-one knows about!”.
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Lorraine Murphy
Finance and Administration Worker
Lorraine started with MHFS in February 2007. Lorraine has a degree in Accountancy and started off her career working in a bank. After a while she began to look for a job which was more of a challenge which lead to her taking on the role as Finance and Administration Officer in a charity in Easterhouse. During her time in Easterhouse, Lorraine had to work closely with clients and really enjoyed working in a community environment.
This motivated Lorraine to undertake a course, an Introduction to Training and Adult Literacies Learning, which enabled her to work with adult learners to help them improve their literacy skills. Unfortunately (fortunate for MHFS) Lorraine was made redundant at the end of January this year and seen the job advertisement for the Finance and Administration Worker. Although she has only been in post for a short period of time Lorraine is looking forward to the challenges ahead.
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The Operational Management Group (OMG)
The Operational Management Group of Men's Health Forum Scotland 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 the voluntary and statutory sectors.
The OMG has four key areas of responsibility for:
Proper financial management of the organisation
The strategic direction of the work we develop
Consensus on policy statements and consultations
Employment of the Men's Health Forum Scotland staff team
There are normally nine members of the OMG, appointed annually at the AGM. This includes office bearing posts of Chair and Treasurer.
If you would like more information about the work of the OMG, or would like to become involved in the work of Men's Health Forum Scotland, please contact us.
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).
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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 0788 4207418
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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