Get set for Summer – Q&A with experts on how to stay safe and well this summer.
As part of the national e-learning offer, we are delighted to be working with Education Scotland,
the Scottish Youth Parliament and Young Scot to broadcast two live sessions with a panel of public health experts about staying
safe and well this summer. The panellists will answer your question about staying safe and well this summer. You can find details
on the Panel Members for each session below.
Please submit your questions for the panellists to answer, using the link below or on the day via the live chat.
You can also follow Young Scot’s Instagram and submit your questions there too. Please click here to submit your questions.
The sessions will be broadcast on:
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Tuesday 15th June 2021 at 14:15 for S4-S6
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Wednesday 16th June 2021 at 14:15 for S1-S3
Both sessions will last 30 minutes.
Panellists:
Tuesday 15th June for pupils in S4-S6
Click on a panellist for more information.

Professor Jason Leitch,
National Clinical Director

Dr Dave Caesar,
Interim Deputy Chief Medical Officer

Elizabeth Morrison,
Interim Deputy Director of Learning
Professor Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director
Jason Leitch was appointed as the National Clinical Director of Healthcare Quality and Strategy in January 2015.
Jason is an Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee. From 2005 to 2006 he was a Quality Improvement Fellow at the Institute
for Healthcare Improvement, in Boston, sponsored by the Health Foundation. Jason is also a trustee of the UK wing of the Indian Rural
Evangelical Fellowship which runs orphanages in southeast India.
He qualified as a dentist in 1991 and was as a Consultant Oral Surgeon in Glasgow. He has a doctorate from the University of Glasgow,
a Masters in Public Health from Harvard and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Glasgow and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Dr Dave Caesar, Interim Deputy Chief Medical Officer
David was appointed as an Interim Deputy Chief Medical Officer within the Scottish Government in October 2020,
to support the response to the Coronavirus Pandemic, notably focussing on NHS Recovery, Winter Planning,
Clinical Prioritisation, Ethnicity and Inequalities, and Realistic Medicine.
He had previously been Head of Leadership, Culture and Wellbeing for the Health and Social Care Workforce since July 2018,
having had a strong interest in clinical and system leadership within NHS Scotland and the wider public sector.
This builds on his work as the Chair of the Project Lift team (www.projectlift.scot), established as a collaborative in September 2017,
which is pioneering a novel approach to talent management and leadership development within NHS Scotland.
He joined the Scottish Government at the National Clinical Advisor to the Chief Medical Officer (Scotland) in February 2016, advising on
secondary care services including establishing the Scottish Trauma Network in 2017, as well as engaging with the clinical workforce and
civil service on the National Clinical Strategy, Realistic Medicine, workforce issues and leadership. He is a Senior Fellow of the Faculty
of Medical Leadership and Management, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, and is a trustee of the Medic 1 Trust
and Save a Life for Scotland charities.
This portfolio affords him some time away from being out-negotiated by his 3 children.
Elizabeth Morrison, Interim Deputy Director of Learning
Elizabeth started her career teaching biology and chemistry in the mid-eighties. She taught in six secondary schools across the West of Scotland before finishing as a deputy head teacher. During her time teaching, she had a secondment as a quality improvement officer and also gained several additional educational qualifications. She was appointed as an Her Majesty’s Inspector of Education (HMI) in 2005 and travelled all over Scotland inspecting and supporting schools, and community learning and development services. In 2013, she was appointed as an Assistant Director of Education Scotland and initially led the school inspection programme and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), this included Glow. She took over as Interim Strategic Director at Education Scotland in 2017. In 2018 she was seconded to lead the West Partnership Regional Improvement Collaborative. She returned to Scottish Government in 2020 as Interim Depute Director to support the national response in education to the global pandemic. She will be retiring from working full-time at the start of July.
Wednesday 16th June for pupils in S1-S3

Marion Bane,
Deputy Chief Medical Officer

John Harden,
Deputy National Clinical Director

Eileen Scott,
Public Health Scotland
Marion Bane, Deputy Chief Medical Officer
Marion is a public health doctor. She has held senior leadership posts in NHS Scotland including as Medical Director of Information Services Division,
Medical Director of NHS National Services Scotland, and Director of Infection Prevention and Control in NHS GGC. She spent two years (2017-2019) as
Delivery Director for Public Health Reform in Scottish Government.
She is an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh,
with particular research expertise around the use of routine health information for public health and clinical research.
Since May 2020 Marion has been seconded into Scottish Government as Interim Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Scotland.
John Harden, Deputy National Clinical Director
John has worked in Scottish Government since 2016, initially as the National Clinical Lead for Quality and Safety and more recently as a
Covid Clinical Director and Senior Medical Advisor to the Chief Medical Officer. He was appointed as Deputy National Clinical Director in October 2020.
In this role he supports the senior team responsible for the NHS in Scotland.
John continues as an Emergency Medicine consultant in University Hospital Wishaw, NHS Lanarkshire with special interest areas in
Paediatric Emergency Medicine and Resuscitation.
Dr Eileen Scott
Eileen is a Public Health Intelligence Principal at Public Health Scotland, where she is one of the leads for Covid-19 Surveillance and Education Recovery. She is a member of the Coronavirus (COVID 19): Advisory Sub-Group on Education and Children’s Issues, which provides expert advice to government and is also a member of the World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Schooling during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Trained as a clinical psychologist, Eileen worked in both Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and in Clinical Health Psychology before moving to Public Health in 2009. She currently manages a team of Public Health Intelligence Advisers who provide data analysis and interpretation to develop and improve understanding of the impact of policies and services on health and wellbeing.
Eileen is particularly interested in interventions to reduce health inequalities and improve mental health among older children and adolescents. Eileen co-chairs the national Children and Young People Public Health Group and leads the work programme of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Health promotion and Public Health Development. In 2019-20 Eileen spent a year seconded to the Scottish Government as their Principal Researcher for Child and Maternal Health and Wellbeing.
Eileen has three badly behaved Norwegian Forest Cats, is obsessed with Star Wars and has won awards for public speaking.