Our members
Professor Gillian Leng CBE, Chair
Clinician; President of the Royal Society of Medicine; Non-executive Director at the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology
Appointed 1 April 2025
Professor John Cherrie
Emeritus Professor, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot Watt University; Associate, Institute of Occupational Medicine
Reappointed 1 November 2023
Lesley Francois
Solicitor, Slater and Gordon LLP
Reappointed 1 September 2024
Dr Sally Hemming
Health and Wellbeing Lead at EY, UKI; Associate Wellbeing Services, Robertson Cooper, Northern Trust and JP Hemming Ltd
Appointed 1 January 2023
Professor Max Henderson
Professor of Psychological Medicine and Occupational Psychiatry at the Leeds Institute of Health Sciences at the University of Leeds.
Reappointed 1 November 2024
Dr Richard Heron
Independent Chief Medical Officer and Managing Director at Heron Health Consulting Ltd; Honorary Professorial Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Nottingham Medical School; Honorary Teacher, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Manchester.
Appointed 3 January 2023
Dr Jennifer Hoyle
Consultant Respiratory Physician and Occupational Lung Disease Lead, Pennine Acute NHS Trust. Clinical Lead; Strategic Clinical Network for Respiratory and Long Covid, Greater Manchester.
Reappointed 1 September 2024
Dr Ian Lawson
Retired Occupational Health Physician and formerly, Chief Medical Officer, Rolls-Royce plc.
Reappointed 1 November 2023
Professor Damien McElvenny
Principal Epidemiologist, Institute of Occupational Medicine and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Manchester.
Appointed 1 December 2021
Stephen Mitchell
Deputy Head of Legal Services and Data Protection Officer, Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers Union.
Appointed 3 January 2023
Daniel Shears
National Health, Safety and Environmental Director, GMB Union
Reappointed 1 September 2024
Dr Chris Stenton
Locum Consultant Physician, Royal Victoria Infirmary
Reappointed 1 November 2023
Dr Sharon Stevelink
Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and National Institute for Health and Care Research; Advanced Fellow, Department of Psychological Medicine and King’s Centre for Military Health Research at King’s College London
Appointed 3 January 2023
Dr Gareth Walters
Consultant in respiratory medicine, occupational and interstitial lung disease, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust; Clinical lead, Regional NHS occupational lung disease service, Birmingham Chest Clinic; and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in occupational and environmental medicine, University of Birmingham
Appointed 1 December 2021
Register of interests
Read the Register of members’ interests.
Recruitment of members
The Commissioner for Public Appointments regulates all appointments to IIAC. The appointments are made in accordance with the Governance Code for Public Appointments published by the government.
Vacancies are published on the Public Appointments website as a minimum.
Our meetings and minutes
IIAC meetings
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January 2025: IIAC minutes (PDF, 180 KB, 9 pages)
October 2024: IIAC minutes (PDF, 163 KB, 9 pages)
July 2024: IIAC minutes (PDF, 185 KB, 10 pages)
April 2024: IIAC minutes (PDF, 153 KB, 8 pages)
January 2024: IIAC Minutes (PDF, 227 KB, 9 pages)
October 2023: IIAC minutes (PDF, 198 KB, 9 pages)
March 2023: IIAC minutes (PDF, 253 KB, 13 pages)
January 2023: IIAC minutes (PDF, 170 KB, 10 pages)
October 2022: IIAC minutes (PDF, 190 KB, 9 pages)
July 2022: IIAC minutes (PDF, 156 KB, 8 pages)
April 2022: IIAC minutes (PDF, 164 KB, 9 pages)
March 2022: IIAC minutes (PDF, 139 KB, 5 pages)
February 2022: IIAC minutes (PDF, 153 KB, 8 pages)
January 2022: IIAC minutes (PDF, 157 KB, 9 pages)
October 2021: IIAC minutes (PDF, 201 KB, 8 pages)
July 2021: IIAC minutes (PDF, 156 KB, 8 pages)
April 2021: IIAC minutes (PDF, 145 KB, 9 pages)
January 2021: IIAC minutes (PDF, 147 KB, 6 pages)
October 2020: IIAC minutes (PDF, 159 KB, 7 pages)
July 2020: IIAC minutes (PDF, 207 KB, 6 pages)
April 2020: Meeting cancelled due to coronavirus (COVID-19)
January 2020: IIAC minutes (PDF, 305 KB, 6 pages)
October 2019: IIAC minutes (PDF, 146 KB, 6 pages)
July 2019: IIAC minutes (PDF, 118 KB, 5 pages)
April 2019: IIAC minutes (PDF, 137 KB, 6 pages)
January 2019: IIAC minutes (PDF, 125 KB, 6 pages)
October 2018: IIAC minutes (PDF, 110 KB, 5 pages)
June 2018: IIAC minutes (PDF, 124 KB, 6 pages)
March 2018: IIAC minutes (PDF, 110 KB, 5 pages)
January 2018: IIAC minutes (PDF, 101 KB, 5 pages)
October 2017: IIAC minutes (PDF, 118 KB, 5 pages)
July 2017: IIAC minutes (PDF, 92.8 KB, 3 pages)
April 2017: IIAC minutes (PDF, 116 KB, 5 pages)
January 2017: IIAC minutes (PDF, 103 KB, 5 pages)
October 2016: IIAC minutes (PDF, 126 KB, 7 pages)
July 2016: IIAC minutes (PDF, 149 KB, 6 pages)
April 2016: IIAC minutes (PDF, 157 KB, 10 pages)
January 2016: IIAC minutes (PDF, 176 KB, 12 pages)
IIAC Research Working Group (RWG) meetings
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February 2025: RWG minutes (PDF, 155 KB, 8 pages)
November 2024: RWG minutes (PDF, 167 KB, 9 pages)
September 2024: RWG minutes (PDF, 188 KB, 11 pages)
May 2024: RWG minutes (PDF, 190 KB, 9 pages)
February 2024: RWG Minutes (PDF, 223 KB, 10 pages)
November 2023: RWG minutes (PDF, 162 KB, 9 pages)
September 2023: RWG minutes (PDF, 170 KB, 11 pages)
May 2023: RWG minutes (PDF, 157 KB, 8 pages)
February 2023: RWG minutes (PDF, 178 KB, 9 pages)
November 2022: RWG minutes (PDF, 150 KB, 7 pages)
September 2022: RWG minutes (PDF, 220 KB, 9 pages)
May 2022: RWG minutes (PDF, 147 KB, 6 pages)
December 2021: RWG minutes (PDF, 132 KB, 4 pages)
November 2021: RWG minutes (PDF, 147 KB, 6 pages)
September 2021: RWG minutes (PDF, 149 KB, 7 pages)
May 2021: RWG minutes (PDF, 129 KB, 8 pages)
February 2021: RWG minutes (PDF, 132 KB, 8 pages)
November 2020: RWG minutes (PDF, 129 KB, 6 pages)
September 2020: RWG minutes (PDF, 116 KB, 4 pages)
May 2020: RWG minutes (PDF, 124 KB, 4 pages)
March 2020: RWG minutes (PDF, 156 KB, 6 pages)
November 2019: RWG minutes (PDF, 128 KB, 5 pages)
September 2019: RWG minutes (PDF, 136 KB, 6 pages)
May 2019: RWG minutes (PDF, 109 KB, 5 pages)
February 2019: RWG minutes (PDF, 134 KB, 6 pages)
November 2018: RWG minutes (PDF, 112 KB, 5 pages)
September 2018: RWG minutes (PDF, 107 KB, 4 pages)
May 2018: RWG minutes (PDF, 108 KB, 4 pages)
February 2018: RWG minutes (PDF, 128 KB, 5 pages)
November 2017: RWG minutes (PDF, 93 KB, 5 pages)
September 2017: RWG minutes (PDF, 112 KB, 5 pages)
May 2017: RWG minutes (PDF, 107 KB, 4 pages)
March 2017: RWG minutes (PDF, 110 KB, 5 pages)
November 2016: RWG minutes (PDF, 103 KB, 4 pages)
September 2016: RWG minutes (PDF, 101 KB, 3 pages)
May 2016: RWG minutes (PDF, 125 KB, 6 pages)
March 2016: RWG minutes (PDF, 139 KB, 8 pages)
Archived minutes
Read earlier meeting minutes on The National Archives website.
IIAC public meetings
IIAC also hold annual public meetings. Read the IIAC public meeting minutes.
Our secretariat
The council doesn’t have any staff of its own but DWP provides a small secretariat team.
- Head of Secretariat: Stuart Whitney
- Scientific Advisor: Ian Chetland
- Administrative Secretary: Catherine Hegarty