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Rod Jacques has been involved in Sports Medicine for the last 21 years and joined the EIS in 2003 having previously worked at the British Olympic Medical Centre in London.

Based at the University of Bath, Rod attended the Atlanta, Sydney, Athens and Beijing Olympics with Team GB and the Kuala Lumpur and Manchester Commonwealth Games with the England Team.

He did the London Hospital Diploma course in Sports Medicine, qualifying with distinction and the David Ritchie prize in 1990. He also obtained the Society of Apothecaries Diploma in Sports Medicine, and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine and am current Vice-President.

He was appointed to the British Olympic Medical Centre, London in 1998 – 2001 and joined the EIS in 2003.

Mark Hamer graduated in Sport and Exercise Science (1996) from The University of Birmingham, completed an MSc in Sports Sciences (1999) at Brunel University and later received his PhD in Exercise Physiology from De Montfort University (2002). He spent eleven years at UCL as a researcher in Epidemiology and Public Health funded by the British Heart Foundation before taking up the role of Professor in Exercise as Medicine at Loughborough University in 2015. He later returned to UCL in 2019 as Professor in Sport and Exercise Medicine.

He is a member of the ESRC Grant Assessment Panel. He has been recognised as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2018 and 2019, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year (Cross-Field) in Web of Science.

Sir Andy Haines is Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health with a joint appointment in the Dept of Social and Environmental Health Research and in the Dept of Population Health.

He was previously Director (originally Dean) of LSHTM for nearly 10 years up to October 2010, having previously been Professor of Primary Health Care at UCL between 1987-2000. 

Between 1993-6 Professor Haines was on secondment as Director of Research & Development at the NHS Executive, North Thames and he was consultant epidemiologist at the MRC Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit between 1980-7. He has also worked internationally in Nepal, Jamaica, Canada and the USA.

Sir Andy has been a member of a number of major international and national committees, including the MRC Global Health Group ( chair) and the MRC Strategy Group. He was formerly chair of the Universities UK Health and Social Care Policy Committee and a member of the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research. He was a member of Working Group 2 of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the second and third assessment reports. He chaired the Scientific Advisory Panel for the 2013 WHO World Health Report on Research for Universal Health Coverage and in 2014/2015 he chaired the Rockefeller Foundation/Lancet Commission on Planetary Health and co-chaired the development group for the Health Knowledge Action Network of Future Earth. He was co-chair of the European Academies Science Advisory Committee working group on climate change and health in Europe, which published its report in June 2019.

Sir Andy currently co-chairs the InterAcademy Partnership (~140 science academies worldwide) working group on climate change and health and the Royal Society/ Academy of Medical Sciences group on health and climate change mitigation. He also co-chairs the Lancet Pathfinder Commission on health in the zero-carbon economy and participates in the Lancet Commissionon Pollution and the Lancet Commission on the COVID-19 response.