Talks take place on Thursday afternoons, starting at 2pm, and usually take place in the Lecture Hall, Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JA. These are free for Oxford u3a members but you are welcome to attend as a guest for a donation of £5 (£2 for members of all other U3As).
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Dr Alison Hill – Cycling in Oxford
2nd May 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Alison Hill’s professional life was as a public health doctor, having qualified in medicine from Bristol University. In the 90s she was director of public health in Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes. Between 2000 and 2012 she was managing director of Solutions for Public Health, an NHS unit which provided highly specialised public health evidence and intelligence services to clients across the UK, including government departments, the NHS, local authorities, and other health bodies including NICE. From 2012 to 2015 she was Public Health England’s Deputy Chief Knowledge Officer.
She has been an everyday cyclist all her life. She was able to weave her interest in cycling into her professional life by working on a range of products, such as local authority health profiles and the National Obesity Observatory, which brought together research and data about the benefits and importance of active travel to health and wellbeing.
This long-standing interest in the role that cycling can play in improving health across populations, and the contribution that public health professionals and the NHS can make to increasing the number of people cycling led to her being invited onto the board of Cycling England for its duration.
Having left full time paid employment Alison has two voluntary roles in the world of cycling. She is chair of the Bikeability Trust which is a charity aiming to get every child trained through the national Bikeability training scheme, and chair of Oxford’s cycling campaign group Cyclox. She is a regular cyclist, doing all her journeys by bike, with or without public transport, including cycle touring holidays.