IHDP Annual Lecture ‘Upstream and Downstream Prevention: Implications for the Control of the Obesity Pandemic’ by Professor John Frank The Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme is delighted to announce that this year’s Annual Lecture will be delivered by Professor John Frank. Please join us from 3.00pm on Fri 14 June: 3.00pm: Tea and Coffee 4.00pm: Lecture 5.00pm: Drinks reception Professor Frank holds a Chair at the University of Edinburgh in Public Health Research and Policy, is Director of Knowledge Exchange and Research Impact for the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics and is also Honorary Public Health Consultant to the Scottish Public Health Observatory. His broad research and professional interests - represented in 290 scientific publications over 35 years - concern the determinants of population and individual health status, especially the causes, remediation and prevention of socio-economic gradients in health. In 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his scientific contributions. This year’s IHDP Annual Lecture will lay out the respective pros and cons of the ‘upstream’ and ‘downstream’ approaches to chronic disease control, as applied to nutritional disease outbreaks: The 1900-1940 pellagra epidemic in the US Old South which killed many thousands of Americans before it was controlled, despite a series of novel epidemiological studies by US Public Health Service investigator Joseph Goldberger. These studies clearly demonstrated the disease’s simple nutritional cause and its complete preventability by upstream measures Obesity - the quintessential example of a modern chronic disease pandemic. Much evidence points to the relative infeasibility of only using downstream prevention/treatment as an approach to control it but the precise target of more upstream control efforts remains elusive. Current scientific hypotheses are explored as to why the obesity pandemic started when it did and what would be required to successfully control it. Read more about IHDP on the Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme website Jun 14 2019 15.00 - 17.00 IHDP Annual Lecture Upstream and Downstream Prevention: Implications for the Control of the Obesity Pandemic | Professor John Frank Playfair Library, Edinburgh Register via Eventbrite
IHDP Annual Lecture ‘Upstream and Downstream Prevention: Implications for the Control of the Obesity Pandemic’ by Professor John Frank The Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme is delighted to announce that this year’s Annual Lecture will be delivered by Professor John Frank. Please join us from 3.00pm on Fri 14 June: 3.00pm: Tea and Coffee 4.00pm: Lecture 5.00pm: Drinks reception Professor Frank holds a Chair at the University of Edinburgh in Public Health Research and Policy, is Director of Knowledge Exchange and Research Impact for the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics and is also Honorary Public Health Consultant to the Scottish Public Health Observatory. His broad research and professional interests - represented in 290 scientific publications over 35 years - concern the determinants of population and individual health status, especially the causes, remediation and prevention of socio-economic gradients in health. In 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his scientific contributions. This year’s IHDP Annual Lecture will lay out the respective pros and cons of the ‘upstream’ and ‘downstream’ approaches to chronic disease control, as applied to nutritional disease outbreaks: The 1900-1940 pellagra epidemic in the US Old South which killed many thousands of Americans before it was controlled, despite a series of novel epidemiological studies by US Public Health Service investigator Joseph Goldberger. These studies clearly demonstrated the disease’s simple nutritional cause and its complete preventability by upstream measures Obesity - the quintessential example of a modern chronic disease pandemic. Much evidence points to the relative infeasibility of only using downstream prevention/treatment as an approach to control it but the precise target of more upstream control efforts remains elusive. Current scientific hypotheses are explored as to why the obesity pandemic started when it did and what would be required to successfully control it. Read more about IHDP on the Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme website Jun 14 2019 15.00 - 17.00 IHDP Annual Lecture Upstream and Downstream Prevention: Implications for the Control of the Obesity Pandemic | Professor John Frank Playfair Library, Edinburgh Register via Eventbrite
Jun 14 2019 15.00 - 17.00 IHDP Annual Lecture Upstream and Downstream Prevention: Implications for the Control of the Obesity Pandemic | Professor John Frank
