Forging New Collaborations
Aviemore, Scotland, 13-14 November 2008
This year’s Annual Scottish Public Health Conference is being organised by the Faculty of Public Health with the North of Scotland NHS Boards (NHS Grampian, NHS Highland, NHS Orkney, NHS Shetland and NHS Western Isles). It will be held at the Macdonald Aviemore Highland Resort on 13 and 14 November 2008.
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 “Forging New Collaborations, recognises the importance of local and strategic interventions to improve the health and well being of the public, as well as the wider impact of climate, demographic, social and technological change.
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 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.
Abstracts
The conference organisers welcome abstracts showing the breadth and depth of public health and in particular around the public health response to the following themes, both from practitioners and researchers:
- International Public Health
- Ethics and the Rights to Health
- Environment
- Local interventions to improve the health and well being of the public
- Strategic interventions to improve public health, including health services, health improvement and health protection
- Remote and Rural Dimensions