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Membership of the Executive Committee
Director	Prof Paul Elliott (Chair)
Deputy Director	Prof Frank Kelly
Assistant Director	TBA
Representative of methodological programme	Prof Sylvia Richardson
Representative of Research Theme 1 (Health effects of sources and emissions of environmental contaminants)	Prof David Briggs
Representative of Research Theme 2 (Air pollution and health)	Prof Peter Burney
Representative of St George's, UOL	Prof Ross Anderson
Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Imperial College London	Prof Paolo Vineis
Committee servicing by Centre Administrator (Air pollution and health)	(TBA) (in interim by P Elliott's PA)

The Executive Committee meets every 4 weeks.

Terms of Reference

To establish formal collaborative relationships with the funding bodies (MRC, DH, HPA) and other national and international agencies in the field of environment and health.
To develop a robust management structure to enable the integrated operation of the Centre across component research groups at Imperial, King's and St George's.
To establish an International Advisory Board to oversee the research and training strategies; an Investigators Committee to facilitate development of research projects in the research programme; and a Training Committee to facilitate development of the training programme.
To oversee development of the Centre's research programme, which will be developed collaboratively with scientific experts from academia and government bodies appointed to the International Advisory Board.
To coordinate recruitment of high quality candidates to the academic, post-doctoral and support positions, and to the PhD studentships funded by the Centre and partner institutions.
To promote collaborations with other research centres and institutes, and to stimulate research collaboration and multi-disciplinary working across the Centre's research groups through the Investigators Committee.
To develop an effective communications policy for the regular dissemination of information on Centre activities to all staff and students within the Centre.
To liaise with the Investigators Committee to support coordinated responses to project and programme grant funding opportunities in order to develop the Centre's research themes.
To develop a robust programme for training of the next generation of environmental health scientists, through MSc and PhD programmes, and purpose-designed short courses.
To support the Director in preparing reports and data for the funding bodies and to monitor progress toward achieving planned outputs during the first 5 year programme.
To promote scientific visibility of the Centre through substantive publications, presentations at international conferences, hosting international scientific meetings, and a seminar series.

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