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SUMMARY:Bradford Hill Seminar – What are the Policy Levers for Impact on
  Health and Sustainability? - Professor Jeremy A. Lauer\, University of St
 rathclyde
DTSTART:20231122T130000Z
DTEND:20231122T140000Z
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CONTACT:Paul Browne
DESCRIPTION:All are invited to the hybrid Bradford Hill Seminar:\n\nWhat a
 re the Policy Levers for Impact on Health and Sustainability?\n\nProfessor
  Jeremy A. Lauer\, University of Strathclyde\n\nPlease note this will be a
  free hybrid seminar\, with the option to attend in-person (Large Seminar 
 Room\, East Forvie Building\, Forvie Site\, Robinson Way\, Cambridge CB2 0
 SR) or virtually (via Zoom).\n\nNo registration is required to attend in p
 erson.\n\nRegister in advance to attend this seminar online at:\n\nhttps:/
 /www.phs.group.cam.ac.uk/event/bh-seminar-policy-levers-impact-health-sust
 ainability/\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email c
 ontaining information about joining the meeting.\n\nAbout this talk\nHealt
 h taxes\, which build on some of the oldest taxation measures in human soc
 iety\, open horizons in fiscal policy that are only starting to be identif
 ied and explored. In particular\, health taxes facilitate the convergence 
 of two of our most pressing unfinished agendas: SDG3 (“Ensure healthy li
 ves and promote well-being for all at all ages”\, including target 3.8\,
  Universal Health Coverage) and SDG13 (“Take urgent action to combat cli
 mate change and its impacts”). In this talk\, I will present reflections
  on the structure inherent in these two Sustainable Development Goals\, an
 d in current approaches to achieving them\, and infer a set of desirable c
 riteria for innovative policy agendas. An emerging discussion termed “pl
 anetary health” serves as an example.\n\nAbout Professor Jeremy Lauer\nJ
 eremy joined the University of Strathclyde in February 2020 as Professor o
 f Management Science following a 25-year career (1995-2020) as an Economis
 t with the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2017\, Jeremy was asked to 
 lead a project on health taxes at the WHO which resulted in a 2022 book\, 
 involving collaboration with over two dozen global experts\, that was publ
 ished by the WHO\, Imperial College and World Scientific. “Health Taxes:
  Policy and Practice” was the first book on the economics of a health to
 pic to published by the WHO with an endorsement by a global financial inst
 itution (The World Bank).\n\nPrior to this\, in 2016 Jeremy analysed the e
 conomics of fiscal space for health workforce expansion in lower- and lowe
 r-middle income countries\, as well as the interactions between the health
  system and the economy\, for the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Comm
 ission on Health Employment and Economic Growth. In 2018 Jeremy was invite
 d by Argentina to advise the G20 health ministers’ working group. Jeremy
  continues to accept speaking engagements at the United Nations General As
 sembly\, and appeared as a key-note speaker at high-profile UNGA side even
 ts hosted\, respectively\, by Uruguay and India in 2022 and 2023.\n\nJerem
 y’s expertise includes economic evaluation\, fiscal policies for health\
 , ethics in global health\, the macroeconomics of health and the health sy
 stem\, and the health workforce.\n\nAbout the Bradford Hill seminars\nThe 
 Bradford Hill seminar series is the principal series of The Cambridge Popu
 lation Health Sciences Partnership\, in collaboration with the PHG Foundat
 ion. This comprises the Departments of Public Health & Primary Care\, MRC 
 Biostatistics Unit and MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridg
 e\, bringing together a multi-disciplinary partnership of academics and pu
 blic health professionals. The Bradford Hill seminar programme of internat
 ionally recognised speakers covers topics of broad interest to our public 
 health research community. It aims to transcend as well as connect the act
 ivities of our individual partners.\n\nAll are welcome at our Bradford Hil
 l seminars.
LOCATION:Large Seminar Room\, East Forvie Building\, Forvie Site Robinson 
 Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.
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