Conference Programme 2019

The conference will be held at Mary Ward House in London, UK, on Nov 29, 2019. You can book your place at the conference at the HG3 booking website here.

Programme

*We are very grateful to the NIHR School for Public Health Research and The Lancet for sponsoring prizes at the conference.

09.00 Welcome and introduction to the day
Rob Aldridge

09.15 Creativity and innovation in public health science

1. Secrets of the hospital underbelly: antimicrobial resistance metagenomics of sewage from a tertiary hospital – Meghan Perry.
2. The exclusion of pregnant women from NHS healthcare: A cross-sectional humanitarian health service evaluation – Eleanor Turnbull.
3. Assessing the public health implications of Brexit in Wales: A Health Impact Assessment (HIA) approach – Liz Green.
4. Acceptability of an interactive film-based intervention targeting adolescent boys to prevent sexual risk-taking: findings from the JACK cluster randomised controlled trial process evaluation – Áine Aventin.
5. Pathways to inequalities in child mental health – Evidence from two national birth cohorts. David Taylor-Robinson.

10.30 Tea and coffee

11.00 New methodological approaches to public health science

1. Antibiotic prescribing in care homes in the UK 2016-2017, a cross-sectional study of linked data – Catherine Smith.
2. Temperature and Morbidity – An Observational Study on the Impact of Extreme Temperature on Emergency Admissions across Vulnerable Populations in England – Dheeya Rizmie.
3. Equity as a consideration in economic evaluations of health taxes: a systematic review – Vageesh Jain.
4. Challenges and opportunities of a novel methodological approach to engaging the food industry in public health initiatives: incentivising food industry collaboration through an innovation call – Timothy Chambers.
5. Antimicrobial Stewardship in Dentistry: An Arts-based Approach to Intervention Development – Wendy Thompson.

12.30 Lunch and chaired poster viewing

14.00 Keynote Speech  

How can we create a world-leading health of the public research capacity in the UK? Professor Dame Anne Johnson

15.00 Tea, coffee and poster viewing

15.30 Implementing public health science in policy and practice

1. Local Authority Champions of Research: a mixed methods proof of concept study – Mandy Cheetham.
2. Impact of urban health indicators in urban planning policy and decision-making: a qualitative system dynamics study – Helen Pineo.
3. Prospective study of the introduction of standardised tobacco packaging and minimum excise tax on in the UK – Rosemary Hiscock.
4. Exploring e-cigarette policy recommendations and the role of evidence: A citation network analysis of international public health guidelines – Marissa Smith.
5. Evaluating smoke-free prison policy development, implementation and impact across the entire national prison service in Scotland: 3-Phase, multi-methods Tobacco in Prisons (TIPs) study – Kate Hunt.

16.45 Closing remarks and prize* announcements    
Audrey Ceschia, The Lancet Public Health