We are delighted to announce the programme for Public Health Science 2018. The conference will be held at Riddel Hall, Queen’s University, Belfast, on Nov 23, 2018. This year for the first time there will also be a free pre-conference event on Nov for early career public health researchers and practitioners. You can book your place at the conference at the HG3 booking website here.
Programme
| 09.00 | Welcome and introduction to the day
Rob Aldridge |
| 09.15 | Creativity and innovation in public health science
Chairs: Harry Rutter and Aideen Maguire |
| 1. Knowledge, trust and experience make the difference: what members of the public think about taking part in medical research during an Influenza pandemic – an international cross-sectional survey across eight OECD countries. Nina Gobat.
2. Developing and Evaluating Complex Interventions: Updating the MRC Guidance to take account of new methodological and theoretical approaches. Kathryn Skivington. 3. Positive health-related effects of perceiving urban soundscapes: A systematic review. Jian Kang. 4. Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a loyalty scheme for physical activity behaviour change maintenance: a cluster randomised controlled trial. Ruth Hunter. 5. Supporting Our Lifelong Engagement: Mothers and Teens Exercising (SOLE MATES): A Feasibility Study. Méabh Corr. |
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| 10.30 | Tea and coffee |
| 11.00 | New methodological approaches to public health science
Chairs: Helen Walters and Llion Davies. |
| 1. Child Sexual Abuse and Subsequent Maternal Parenting: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis. Brittany Lange.
2. Development of Guidance for Feasibility Studies to Decide Whether and How to Proceed to Full-scale Evaluation of Complex Public Health Interventions. Peter Craig. 3. Stakeholder involvement in the systematic optimisation of the Project Respect and Positive Choices school-based relationships and sex education interventions. Ruth Ponsford. 4. Mining Electronic Health Records to Identify Influential Predictors Associated with Hospitalisation of Dementia Patients: An Artificial Intelligence Approach. Shang-Ming Zhou. 5. Using Whole genome sequencing (WGS) data to target for public health intervention: a case study investigating outbreak investigation of a WGS-linked cluster of Salmonella sppenteritidis cases in England in 2016. Oluwakemi Olufon. |
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| 12.30 | Lunch and chaired poster viewing |
| 14.00 | Keynote Speech:
Precision Public Health – an oxymoron for our times. Frank Kee. |
| 15.00 | Tea, coffee and poster viewing |
| 15.30 | Implementing public health science in policy and practice
Chairs: Simon Capewell and Christine McKee 1. Mental wellbeing in prisoners in Scotland: an analysis of repeat cross-sectional surveys. Emily Tweed. 2. Public health and alcohol licensing policy in local government: an observational study of licensed premises and alcohol related violence in London. Talia Boshari. 3. Variation in route to diagnosis of heart failure in primary care in England. Dani Kim. 4. Developing the role of public health in responding to mental health and wellbeing needs after mass casualty incidents: experience at London Bridge and Borough Market, June, 2017. Carolyn Sharpe. 5. Social deprivation as a marker for alcohol harms: Implications for local harm reduction policies in England: An ecological study. Chris Allan. |
| 17.00 | Closing remarks and prize* announcements
Audrey Ceschia, The Lancet Public Health |
*We are very grateful to the NIHR School for Public Health Research and Public Health England for sponsoring prizes at the conference.