21st Century Trends
Threats & Opportunities for Public Health
Airth, Scotland, 15-16th November 2007
This year's Annual Scottish Public Health Conference is being organised by the Faculty of Public Health with the West of Scotland NHS Boards (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, NHS Forth Valley and NHS Dumfries and Galloway). It will be held at the Airth Castle Hotel, Airth, near Falkirk on 15th and 16th November.
The success of recent conferences has been due to the variety of high quality presentations in both plenary and the parallel sessions as well as the opportunity for a multidisciplinary audience of practitioners, researchers and specialists in public health to come together.
The theme of this year's conference '21 st Century Trends – Threats and Opportunities for Public Health', recognises the importance of developments that are taking place with climate change, globalisation, demographic and social change, service provision, communications and new technology and how these changes affect public health.
The conference provides the opportunity for those involved in protecting and improving health in Scotland to meet learn, debate and address some of the key health challenges in Scotland .
The conference will comprise of keynote speeches from leading opinion formers and decision makers, parallel sessions and poster displays. This format will provide an opportunity for fringe sessions and meetings of related groups.