Abstract

Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer for England, will deliver this year’s prestigious Annual Public Health lecture, entitled: The (In)Discipline of Public Health.

The lecture will follow the 2016 CIPH and Network annual public health conference, which will examine the interface between infectious diseases and non-communicable diseases.

Highlights include:

10.30 Opening Speech with Professor Carol Brayne, Director, Cambridge Institute of Public Health

10.50 Talks – Bridging the gap: public health and the interface with infectious diseases – with Gordon Dougan, Ann Prentice and Margaret Stanley. Introduced/chaired by Aliko Ahmed

13.30 Talks – Risk and Susceptibilities across transmissible and non-transmissible diseases – with Lydia Drumright, Ros Parkes-Ratanshi, Angelique Mavrodaris and Farida Mayanja. Chaired by Sheila Bird

16.10 Short talks – Translating knowledge across transmissible and non-transmissible diseases – with James Wood, Ashley Moffett, Nick Brown and Dani De Angelis. Chaired by Peter Bradley

17.20 Closing speech: Professor Carol Brayne

18.00 Annual Lecture: “The (In)Discipline of Public Health” with Professor Dame Sally Davies. Introduced by the Vice Chancellor of The University of Cambridge

Now in its third year, the Cambridge annual public health conference & lecture series presents an opportunity for researchers, policy makers, and other professionals working in the field of public health, to come together, discover and discuss the latest Cambridge University research breakthroughs in this area.

See speaker abstracts and further details here: http://www.iph.cam.ac.uk/blog/2016-annual-public-health-conference-lecture-speaker-abstracts-biographies/

Posters

Cambridge researchers will showcase and engage new people with their research by presenting their posters during the lunchtime session of the conference. Posters cover a wide range of topics relating to public and population health.

See poster abstracts here:http://www.iph.cam.ac.uk/blog/poster-presentations/

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 10:30-19:00 at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. Entry FREE .

Advance booking recommended. Register here.

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