The Young STAND Awards (Young Scots Tackling Alcohol and Drugs Awards) is an awards scheme co-hosted by Mentor Scotland and SCPHRP, aimed at young people who, through their schools or communities, are involved in projects which address alcohol and substance misuse. Winner of the Community category: Aberdeen City Council – …
Slides SCPHRP Introduction: Day 1 Ted Melhuish – Early Childhood Programmes Susan Jebb – Taking a systems approach to obesity Resources Workshop Programme Workshop Report: Part One Workshop Report: Part Two Mar 20, 2014
Slides Harry Rutter – The National Obesity Observatory Iain Broom – The Counterweight Programme Annie Anderson – Recipe for Success ? Heather Pearce – Energy In Sally Haw – Obesity in Scotland: Moving the agenda forward Alison MacDonald – HEAT 3 NHS Child Healthy Weight Target Ian Grant – Developing …
9.00 COFFEE Chair: Sir David Carter 9.30 Welcome Prof John Frank, Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research & Policy, Edinburgh 9.40 A Systems Approach to Getting Evidence into Policy Prof Allan Best, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia 10.20 Case Study 1: Alcohol Policy Prof David …
Dr. Réjean Hébert is a renowned researcher on aging in Canada and internationally. A trained doctor of medicine, he is professor in the department of family medicine at the Université de Sherbrooke, and former director of the Research Centre in Aging at the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Sherbrooke. Dr. Hébert’s …
Dr. Shiriki Kumanyika is a Professor in the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia. She has an interdisciplinary background and holds advanced degrees in social work, nutrition, and public health. She has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on several randomized …
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 – 13:54 Professor John Frank, Director, Scottish Collaboration for Health Research and Policy speaking at the launch of the National Pre-Birth to Three Guidance: Positive Outcomes for Scotland’s Children and Families held in December 2010. Professor Frank outlined the key public health problems in Scotland and …
Katherine Smith joined the Global Public Health Unit in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh as a new lecturer in January 2011. Prior to this she was a lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Bath and where she previously worked as a Research …
On March 14th 2011, a national workshop was co hosted by the Collaboration, to explore in detail the feasibility, methodological challenges and costs of using modern, anonymized record-linkage to exploit Scotland’s considerable potential to utilise linkable administrative datasets, across diverse human service sectors of government, to efficiently address policy-relevant question. It …
