Programme

The UK's largest multi-disciplinary conference on public health

The Annual Public Health Forum has been one of the main platforms on which the UKPHA has developed and expanded its work on health and sustainable development. 

Confronting the Public Health Crisis

Conference Programme Now Available!

The UKPHA Annual Forum is delighted to announce that the programme for the March conference is now available here!

Browse through details of the innovative and wide ranging sessions programmed this year on the Annual Forum pages by clicking here.

New Interactive Abstract System

The UKPHA interactive abstract system will be available online shortly. The system will allow you to search and find papers by a certain author, title or organisation, or view all abstracts in a particular session. Please check back here soon!

Keynote Speakers

 

Andrew Lansley CBE MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Health

Andrew Lansley has been the Shadow Secretary of State for Health since 2003 and has helped shape the Conservative Party's Health policies, offering the prospect of real and positive change for our NHS (subject to Parliamentary commitments).

 

Chris Gates

Executive Director PACE - Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement, Colorado, USA.

 

 

 

Professor Sir Michael Marmot (by video link)

Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health and Director of the International Institute for Society and Health. MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College, London.

Sir Marmot will be joining the UKPHA Conference via a specially produced video to the conference delegates.

 

John McKnight

Co-Director ABCD - Asset-Based Community Development Institute, School of Education and Social Policy 'Mobilising neighbourhood assets - The future of community health' Northwestern University, Chicago, USA.

 

Norman Lamb MP

Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary

Call for Papers

The abstract review process has now closed for 2010.

Please email the Conference Office: conference@ukpha.org.uk for further details.

Key Issues for discussion, debate and presentation will include:

• What the doctor ordered, social justice and power to the people? The Implications of the Marmot Report
• Gaining health through participation, democracy and citizenship
• Ageing, longevity and inequalities
• Resource depletion and population health
• Creating healthy communities - housing, transport and green spaces
• Health and well-being in a time of economic and ecological crises

A full list of programme topics can be found by clicking here.

A full list of all abstracts submitted can be found by clicking here.

The complete conference programme can be found by clicking here.

The outline conference programme can be seen below:

Off-site Visits

We are delighted to be able to offer delegates a chance to visit two very interesting South West projects, which are kindly being hosted by our local partners. These are LV= Streetwise and Boscombe Spa Village. We are keen to gauge interest in these visits as places are limited so if you are interested in attending either of these visits, please send an email before Friday 5th March 2010 stating which visit you are interested in to: Toby@Benchcom.co.uk 

 

LV= Streetwise

Wednesday 24^th March, session B18

Meet at 15.45 in main entrance foyer, return at 17.30

Transport kindly provided free of charge by Damory Coaches

Maximum group number 16

 

Every year thousands of children are injured in preventable accidents at home and on our roads. LV= Streetwise works closely with like-minded agencies and organisations to deliver the preventative education that will help to reduce both the tragic heartache of lives lost or ruined and the financial cost of avoidable accidents to the services involved in dealing with the aftermath.

LV= Streetwise is an award winning interactive safety education centre - a life-sized indoor village where children discover how to keep safe and what to do in an emergency - learning about accident prevention at home and on the roads, fire safety, responsible behaviour and good citizenship in an exciting and memorable way. The centre is also extensively used by the emergency services for
'real-life' role play training.

Around 150,000 people have visited the centre since it opened in January 1999 and it continues to develop as a central resource for agencies and organisations concerned with community safety, accident prevention, health improvement, crime and disorder reduction and the national curriculum. LV= was a founding partner in 1997 and after 10 years increased their support to become the lead commercial sponsor.

LV= Streetwise is a registered charity and a multi-agency partnership project inspired and created by Dorset's emergency services, local authorities, health authority and over 400 partners from the business community and voluntary sector. For more information, you can visit: www.streetwise.org.uk

Boscombe Spa Village

Thursday 25^th March, session C18  

Meet at 11.50 in main entrance foyer, return at 13.30

 

The eco friendly 'land train' will take delegates to Boscombe Spa Village along the seafront.

Bournemouth Borough Council's innovative £13.5 million Boscombe Spa Village regeneration scheme has transformed an economically and socially deprived coastal suburb, re-branding it into a year round 21st century surf lifestyle destination creating a centre-piece attraction as Europe's first artificial surf reef. The scheme has directly levered in additional £48.8 million of private sector investment including Barratt Homes flagship Honeycombe Beach residential complex. Since completion, 91 new long-term jobs have been created on site, visitor numbers have increased 32% and incidents of anti-social behaviour are down 40%.

Grade II listed, restored Boscombe Pier

The project both in funding, function and innovation sets a bold template for other Local Authorities to follow.

Arts and Health

As ever the Forum will offer all that is best in networking, learning and leading edge thinking plus the creativity and inspiration which comes with its renowned arts and health programme.

Our jam packed arts programme can be downloaded by clicking here!

*Please note all programme details are subject to change.