Public Policy@Southampton invites you to a symposium to highlight the harmful effects from non-communicable diseases, the global health challenge of the 21st Century.
According to the World Health Organisation, the diseases of unhealthy behaviours linked to tobacco, alcohol and obesogenic diets are the global health challenge of the 21st century.
This event will bring together an important and inspiring range of speakers: policy makers, practitioners and academics, to debate the role of NCDs in society and their common vector – marketing by industry, to consider where and how policy interventions might effect change.
Date: Wednesday 12 March 2014
Time: 13:30–16:30, followed by drinks and buffet reception
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1015, Building 32, University of Southampton
Our inspirational and distinguished guest speakers include: Professor Don Nutbeam, Vice-Chancellor, University of Southampton; Dr Nick Sheron, Head of Clinical Hepatology, University of Southampton; Dr Geof Rayner PhD, co-author, Ecological Public Health: Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health, Routledge, 2012; Professor Linda Bauld, Professor of Health Policy, University of Stirling; Professor Gerard Hastings, Professor of Social Marketing and Director of the Institute for Social Marketing and Centre for Tobacco Control Research, University of Stirling; Dr Richard Horton, Editor in Chief, The Lancet; Chair: Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, Honorary Professor in Clinical Science.
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