Provisional Programme: DAY 3

 

Programme at a glance | Day 1| Day 2 | Day 3

Programme for the FPH Annual Conference
DAY 3 - Thursday 5 June 2008
08.30–09.15 Registration and refreshments
08.30-09.15 Breakfast networking sessions
09.15–10.30 PLENARY SESSION 7
Obesity
Dame Deirdre Hutton, Chair, Food Standards Agency
Professor Mike Kelly, Director, Public Health Excellence Centre, NICE
Professor Geof Rayner, Visting Research Fellow, City University
10.30–11.00 Refreshments and Poster Forum
11.00–12.30 PARALLEL SESSION D
D1: Preparing Portfolios

 

Preparing portfolios: A taster workshop
Jan McCall, Programme Manager Public Health Development, Public Health Resource Unit
Patricia Christmas, Independent Public Health Consultant, Public Health Resource Unit

 

D2: New Medicines

Medicines - from trial to market: A commissioner's story
Chair: Sally Nelson, Chair, Health Care Public Health Committee, Faculty of Public Health
Speakers:
David Gillen, Medical Director, Pfizer
Jonathan Howell, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, West Midlands Specialised Commissioning Team
Gary Cook, R&D Director and Consultant Epidemiologist, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
Peter Barrett-Lee, Consultant and Clinical Oncologist, Velindre Cancer Centre

D3: Migration and Health

 

Long-term impact of forced versus voluntary migration on mental health of people from former Yugoslavia resettled in Britain
Tamara Djuretic, Principal Investigator/MRC Fellow, Imperial College London

High gain for investing in the Irish community in Britain
Mary Tilki, Chair/Principal Lecturer, Federation of Irish Societies/Middlesex University

D4: Community Interventions

 

The development of an intensive skills base approach for the delivery of Personal, Social, Health Education to young people using a tiered model
Julie Roberts, Health Improvement Specialist, Sheffield PCT
Val Monti Holland, Health Improvement Specialist, Sheffield PCT

Developing a partnership approach to public health evaluation
Annie Wallace, Research Associate, University of Sunderland
Karen Smith, Research Associate, University of Sunderland

Addressing health inequalities: The findings of the ‘Barefoot’ Health Workers Project
Susan Toner, Principal Health Promotion Specialist, National Public Health Service for Wales

A community-based primary prevention programme to reduce coronary heart disease
Gill Richardson, Local Public Health Director, Caerphilly Teaching Local Health Board

D5: Primary Care Quality

 

Engaging GPs to improve the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease
Matt Kearney, GP Public Health Practitioner, Knowsley PCT

Reducing the use of prostate-specific antigen tests in primary care
Matthew Smith, Specialist Registrar in Public Health, Southampton University

Investigating the quality of primary care for osteoarthritis: An observational study
Joanne Broadbent, Specialist Trainee in Public Health, University of East Anglia

Improving access to mainstream services for those leaving prison
Yvonne Dalziel, Public Health Practitioner, Edinburgh Community Health Partnership, NHS Lothian

12.40–13.45 PLENARY SESSION 8
Global capacity building for public health
Fiona Adshead, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, England
Nick Banatvala, Head of Global Affairs, Department of Health, England
Alan Maryon-Davis, President, Faculty of Public Health
Dick Heller, Coordinator, Peoples-uni
Tony Jewell, Chief Medical Officer, Wales
Sir Michael Marmot, Chair, Commission on Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization
Salman Rawaf, Chair, Faculty of Public Health International Committee

CLOSE OF FORMAL SESSIONS
Alan Maryon-Davis, President, Faculty of Public Health
13:45–14:45 Lunch
14.30–16.00 Informal networking

Fringe meetings

Symposium

New technologies: Can public health make sense of the issues and the conflicts?

Chair: Jonathan Howell, Consultant in Public Health, West Midlands Specialised Commissioning Team

Speakers:

The experience of risk sharing schemes for drugs
Christopher McCabe, Director, Academic Unit of Health Economics, University of Leeds

The rule of rescue
Mark Sheehan, Ethics Department, University of Oxford

The role of the HTA programme
Bob Coates, Consultant Advisor, National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment Programme

New drugs policy development in PCTs
Claire Cheong-Leen, Director, South Central Priorities Support Unit

16:00 Close of Informal Sessions

Refreshments

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