FRRHH Executive Committee

Katie Beck is a nurse and global health educator whose career spans clinical practice, international development, remote healthcare and higher education. She is Course Director of the Professional Diploma in Tropical Nursing at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Associate Professor in Public Health at the University of East Anglia.

Previously, she worked as International Medical Lead for a sustainable development charity, leading healthcare support, workforce development and clinical governance across programmes in remote and resource-constrained settings internationally. Katie's work focuses on professional education, workforce development and global health, with particular interests in international healthcare practice and the contribution of nurses and other non-physician professionals. She brings to the Faculty a nursing and global health perspective and an interest in ensuring that standards, education and professional recognition reflect the diverse practitioners delivering healthcare in remote, rural and humanitarian settings.

Jay is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Interactive Health Ltd (IHL). He has worked internationally in global health for more than two decades. In tandem with his role at IHL, he is currently a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, an Associate Researcher at the University of Copenhagen, and serves in the faculty of the Advanced Programme in Digital Health with ISTCE in Lisbon. Jay supports the NHS Digital Health Leadership Programme together with Imperial College London. He is also a Director at the Sir Halley Stewart Trust.

As part of his global work , Jay and his team deployed community-based digital health programmes at scale together with governments across South Asia including one of the largest community funded child and maternal eHealth programs in the world, a system today that supports over 26,000 community health volunteers across hundreds of communities . Other notable work included deployment and scale of the first mobile reporting of vaccine preventable diseases together with WHO in Nepal as well as one of the first mHealth systems to support cervical cancer screening. Following the 2015 Nepal earthquake his team deployed the first rapid response digital health system to monitor disease outbreaks in country.

In addition to the ground implementation of digital health tools, Jay was part of the advisory board to national governments including Nepal and Bermuda.

Alistair has worked as a doctor, and as a health leader in multiple locations from Scotland to the Antarctic, via offshore Madagascar to Search and Rescue in the North Sea, desert clinics in Oman, offshore Sarawak, corporate USA, Nigeria and the Netherlands. His experience includes the cycle of working in, designing, planning, budgeting, and implementing remote healthcare systems. He has also worked in the humanitarian space in Nigeria and Gabon redesigning sustainable community healthcare systems and has also created public private partnerships and links to global Health NGOs. Alistair initially became involved in the Faculty as a structure to broaden and improve individual practitioner capability and create career structures for remote practitioners. He has a great interest in human performance: neuroscience, metacognition, emotional management, critical thinking, growth mindset et al, and how individuals and teams can improve this critical area of their health. In his opinion, this is a skillset that is often acknowledged as important, but rarely specifically targeted in education and training.

Andy was born in Malaysia and brought up and schooled in Fife, Scotland. He attended Edinburgh University Medical School and whilst there become a commissioned army officer in the Royal Army Medical Corp. He graduated in 1987. He trained in the services to become a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and was deployed throughout the globe including active duty is several austere and hostile environments. He completed a fellowship year in Baltimore, USA, specialising in trauma management. He was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in NHS Highland in 2002 and continues to deliver both elective and trauma surgical services. Andy has always been engaged in training and humanitarian work. He continues to teach on Advanced Orthopaedic, ATLS, and primary trauma courses and recently has been appointed as the Surgical Director for UK-Med. Andy is a medical advisor for the HALO trust and in 2021 completed a deployment to Mosul for two months to support Iraqi colleagues manage battlefield civilian injuries. He is the recipient of the RCSEd 2020 Tuanku Muhriz Fellowship.

Dr Matt Ladbrook is a UK-based NHS General Practitioner with a special interest in remote and austere medicine. Matt has more than 20 years’ experience delivering medical care, training and advice to organisations across expedition, military, charity, commercial and humanitarian sectors.

Matt is the Medical Adviser and a volunteer responder with REACT Disaster Response, a UK-registered humanitarian charity specialising in rapid response to sudden onset emergencies.

Matt is also the Medical Director of WEMSI-International - a volunteer-led, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to advancing standards of patient care in remote and austere environments.

Matt has been a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine in the USA since 2011 and became a Fellow of the Faculty of Remote, Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare in 2024.

Prior to a career in medicine, Matt completed a PhD in human physiology and worked in the UK Civil Service.

Matt uses his experience and skills to enable organisations and people to operate safely in remote locations all over the planet.

Since joining the International Criminal Court in 2008 Josette is responsible for managing and coordinating the provision of Field medical support in remote and often high risk and hazardous locations. Josette carries out Health Risk Assessments in the Field in close coordination with the United Nations. She develops and implements Medical Emergency Response Plans and MEDEVAC procedures and assesses preparedness in case of communicable diseases, outbreaks/ pandemics (Public Health Emergency of International Concern). She is also responsible for the deployment of Paramedic support to Field missions when necessary.

Through her knowledge of remote healthcare Josette brings to the Faculty the hands on experience, skills and capabilities from both a user (medic on the ground) and provider perspective

Professor Sir Tony Redmond OBE is Professor Emeritus of International Emergency Medicine at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester and Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine at Keele University.

Tony is a registered specialist in emergency medicine with a special interest in the management of severe injury. He has been involved in international emergency humanitarian assistance for over thirty-five years, organising and leading medical support to sudden onset disasters, major incidents, conflicts, and complex emergencies throughout the world.

He is the founder of UK-Med, an International Emergency Medical Charity that developed out of the South Manchester Accident Rescue Team (SMART). SMART, a prehospital care team working in support of the rescue and ambulance services in Manchester. He is co-founder of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester and has been a member of the WHO Emergency Medical Teams Initiative since its inception.

Phil gained this experience from a career spanning service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, general medical practice and international assignments for a major energy company. In 2006, Phil joined the world’s largest healthcare company supporting globally mobile populations. Phil was responsible for overseeing and implementing quality driven clinical services to corporate clients which delivered customer-centric solutions and enabled better outcomes even in the world’s most challenging environments. Phil retired from his position as Senior Medical Director at United Global Healthcare Solutions in 2022.

He has over 170 peer reviewed publications and a grant income of over £8.7 billion.  Angus was the recipient of the RCSEd 2019 Tuanku Muhriz Fellowship.

He has been in post since January 2023 and before that was Greffier of the States of Jersey from 2015 to 2022, with responsibility for Jersey’s parliamentary system. Mark is also an independent adviser to the Welsh Senedd. In his spare time, he edits the Journal of the Durham County Local History Society and is a season ticket holder at Sunderland AFC.