Professor Kevin Fenton (Public Health England National Director for Health and Wellbeing) was able to give those in attendance an insight into the work of PHE, how they had developed over the last 3 years since their inception and what their current priorities were. These included getting the best start for children, tackling inequalities, scaling effective clinical interventions (of which physical activity was one), health, work and economic prosperity and also maximising digital health opportunities.
Jim O’Brien (National Programme Director, NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme Public Health England) gave an engaging talk on his experiences of working in the UK response teams that dealt with the Hurricane in the Philippines and more recently the response in Freetown, Sierra Leone that dealt with the Ebola crisis. It was interesting to see the range of people that contributed to this team effort and reassuring to know that the response from the UK was as professional and impactful as described.
Charles Abraham and Sarah Denford from Exeter University outlined a new website that they are developing. They had reviewed an extensive number of public health evaluation guidelines and resources and in conjunction with interviews with key stakeholders are hoping to collate this information and bring it together in one site that might be of use to public health professionals in a range of areas.
Other sessions addressed Oral Health Impact, Environment and Health, Health Impact Assessment and Social Impact Bonds.
The full programme can be found here.
Related Links
Global Burden of Disease Data Website - www.healthdata.org/gbd
Murray, C. J., Richards, M. A., Newton, J. N., Fenton, K. A., Anderson, H. R., Atkinson, C., ... & Braithwaite, T. (2013). UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. The lancet, 381(9871), 997-1020.
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