James Glover is the National Lead for Diversity Equality and Inclusion for the Irish health service. As well as holding this and other diversity roles, he has been a senior manager in health care for 16 years, overseeing hospital, community and mental health services in both Ireland and his native Scotland.
Before that he worked in the UK’s equality regulator, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and in a variety of charities and community organisations. He likes music, cooking and eating food. He first took part in international collaborations in 2009.
Affiliations: The South Savo Wellbeing Services County, strategy services, Finland. The Associaton of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services in Finland.
Eeva Häkkinen (RN, MNSc, EMBA) has worked in several positions related to health promotion and researched the views of hospital staff on health promotion (2007) and the management of health promotion as a senior strategic organizational management task (2019).
The tasks have included various management positions at different levels of the organization, as a ward manager in the department of specialiced medical care, as a Senior Nursing Officer in the municipality and as a director of services for the elderly and disabled in the social and health care authority. In her current position, Häkkinen works as a regional welfare coordinator.
Eeva Häkkinen has been active as an expert in the Finnish Health Promoting Hospitals Association since 2002 and has served as the chairman of the association's board since 2022. She has been Finland's HPH network representative in the TF-MED (formerly TF MFCCH) working group since 2012 and has started equity and equality related activities in connection with the Finnish HPH network.
John Nwobo has over 30 years experience in Health Service. He holds a Master’s Degree in Health Service Management from the Institute of Leadership, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. He trained as a Physiotherapist from the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus.
For over 18 years, he has been involved in supporting and enabling the delivery of service improvement and change programmes within the community health services in Ireland, with special interest in the area of improvement in Social Inclusion for staff and service users. He provides consultant support to the implementation of National Traveller Health Action Plan for the Traveller Ethnic Community in the eastern part of Ireland. He has supported and enabled the design and implementation of a number of programmes that promote social inclusion for health service staff and service users.
He is currently the Portfolio Lead for the Project Management Office (PMO), Community Healthcare East, Ireland; a post he holds since 2018. He has published on national and international journals, and presented at national and international conferences.
Clémence Braem specializes in intercultural mediation and cultural mediation projects. She has a Master's degree in Anthropology. She is a Project Collaborator for Intercultural Mediation at FPS Public Health, Belgium where she promotes and supports intercultural mediation projects in healthcare, organizes training for intercultural mediators, and manages administrative aspects of these projects.
Previously, she interned as a Cultural Mediator at the BELvue Museum, organizing activities and supporting mediation tools for exhibitions. She has also been involved with the Baden-Powell Scouts Federation of Belgium, providing training and support for volunteers and managing events. Clémence is fluent in French and Dutch, with strong English skills.
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