News and Updates!
Programme Announced!
The programme committee are delighted to have received a record number of abstracts this year, with over 420 in total. This indicates that this year's Forum is sure to be very exciting and informative and will include many different presentations covering all areas of Public Health.
The programme has now been announced for the 16th Annual Forum and all submitters have been informed. To view the full programme, please click here.
All plenary sessions have now been confirmed and there are some very exciting keynote speakers lined up. For full details go to the programme page.
The UKPHA is also introducing a new session to its programme. This is a Plenary + 1 workshop which will bring together some very exciting speakers on Health and Sustainable Development.
Click here to read more.
Exciting fringe activities planned at the Forum
Members' Evening & Public Health Walk - 31st March
This year, the Public Health walk is back! Following the UKPHA AGM, at 6pm Prof John Ashton, CBE, Director of Public Health and County Medical Officer, Cumbria will be delivering an insightful talk into Public Health in Liverpool. A Public Health walk around the city will then follow this. This interesting and healthy evening is open to all UKPHA members.
For further details, and to sign up, please click here.
Lunchtime Reading Group
A lunchtime reading group will be offered to delegates this year. It is called Food for Thought. To read more on this and to sign up, please click here.
Offsite Visits
Once again, the programme will include several very interesting offsite visits. To read more on these, please click here.
Introduction
The Annual Public Health Forum is the largest multi-disciplinary public health conference in the UK, attracting up to 1,000 delegates from all parts of the UK, the Republic of Ireland and overseas.
The Forum offers a unique opportunity to learn from leading edge innovations in all partsof the UK, the Republic of Ireland and abroad, as well as showcase initiatives from Liverpool. These will all relate to the key conference themes:
Health Inequalities
– the health and wealth gaps are widening; what can we do?
- Evidence for successfully tackling health gaps
- Working with disadvantaged groups
- Community workforces - will they deliver?
- Health Equity Audits
Sustainable development
– the social, economic and environmental must-dos
- Creating and maintaining healthy neighbourhoods
- Partnerships - breaking down barriers
- New ways of working to create well-being
Anti-health forces
– fighting for health
- Nanny state vs public good –legislation or persuasion
- The spectrum of choice – who chooses; who loses?
- Social marketing – using commercial tricks
- Balancing rights – values and ethics
And these locally decided issues:
- Public health economics - answering Wanless
- Local economics and governmental interventions
- Long-term conditions - maximising health and minimising health
- Health Protection - the 21st century challenge
- Environmental determinants - the impacts of the world around us
- Keeping us safe - outbreaks, epidemics and terrorism
Liverpool and Public Health
 Liverpool. A city of so much diversity and history which can justly claim to be the cradle of public health as we know it today Inequalities in Health were tackled in Liverpool as long ago as 1832 initially through ‘sanitary reform during the cholera epidemic one Kitty Wilkinson 1786-1860 invited the poorest people into her kitchen to wash. Ten years later she was superintendent of the first ever council run ‘Public Baths and Wash-houses. Dr William Henry Duncan set up the first Public Health Partnership working with Thomas Fresh (Inspector of Nuisances; the fore-runner of today’s environmental health officer) and Robert Newlands (Borough Engineer). Together they tackled the causes as well as the solutions for better health. The Liverpool Sanitary Act, 1846 actually preceded the national Sanitary Act of 1847 and influenced the drafting of the Public Health Act of 1848. Dr Duncan became the first Medical Officer of Health in 1847 and in 1868 the first council houses in Britain, St Martin’s Cottages, were built in Liverpool. Eleanor Rathbone secretary of the Women's Industrial Council in Liverpool was very involved in the organization's campaign against low pay and bad working conditions. In 1909 she became the first woman to be elected to Liverpool City Council and over the next few years argued for improved housing in the city. Eleanor became prominent in the women’s suffrage movement and a was leading advocate for family allowance.
Abstract submission
The UKPHA Annual Forum is now inviting abstract submissions for the 16th Annual Forum in Liverpool.
To view the programme features and topics click here.
To submit an abstract online click here.
Book Now!
You can book your delegate place now by clicking here!
Join UKPHA now!
The UKPHA is a registered charity which through our members, activities and co-operation with others, aims to be a unifying and powerful voice for the public’s health and well-being in the UK, focusing on the need to eliminate inequalities in health, to promote sustainable development and to challenge anti-health forces.
Why not join the UKPHA?
Participate actively in Special Interest Groups
Enjoy discounts for the Annual Public Health Forum, as well as other UKPHA events and publications
Participate in UKPHA policy development
Help lead the growth of the UK Public Health movement
How to join the UKPHA
Take advantage of the UKPHA member delegate rates for the 16th UKPHA Annual Public Health Forum by becoming a member of the UKPHA when you book your place at the conference.
For more information please visit the UKPHA website:
www.ukpha.org.uk or email info@ukpha.org.uk.
Nominations for the UKPHA Michael Varnam Award
Health, Humanity and Environment
Dr Michael Varnam
Background
This award has been developed by the UKPHA due to the outstanding contribution to Health, Humanity and Environment made by a Trustee and exceptionally committed member of UKPHA - Dr Michael Varnam, who died in 2006.
The Award will recognise an approach to health and the environment which is rooted in humanitarian principles.
 Its aim is to encourage and acknowledge projects and services to be developed that improve the environment for the well-being of future generations.
To find out more about this prestigious award and how to apply, please go to the UKPHA website.
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