Welcome to the London Teaching Public Health Network

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The network is one of nine regional Teaching Public Health Networks originally set up by the Department of Health to: 'enhance the knowledge of everyone who can improve public health through the sphere and influence of their work' and to 'create health promoting universities.'We partner with academic, public and third sector organisations in London to help create a 'public health mindset' within the wider workforce. We are the national lead, among the networks, for engaging the third sector. More about us.

Information:

This website contains information about us and the work we do. Members of the Network will be able to search our regional 'public health' course and resource database and download free materials to support teaching and learning in public health. Members will also receive invitations to our conferences and network events as well as a regular network e-newsletter. Membership is free.

Authors: Lorraine Williams and Fiona Sim. Last updated July 2010.

News: On On Friday 21 May 2010 the Network held the event - Getting Serious about Health Inequalities - presentations and photos are available here

Jo Skinner (London Metropolitan University) - Getting Health Innovation and Education clusters to work to deliver change

Penny Emerit (Commissioning Support for London) - Polysystems - how do they support tackling health inequalities in Sectors and PCTs?

Helen Davies (Greater London Authority) - Taking action: the Mayor's Health Inequalities Strategy's 'First Steps to Delivery'

Ian Banks (Men's Health Forum) - The NHS: a No Man's Land - tackling inequalities: a case study

Join us: If you are interested in the work we are doing and would like to join our Network please complete the online membership form. Membership benefits include access to our searchable resource database and invitation to our conferences and network events.

 

Newsletter

LTPHN publishes a quarterly newsletter. You can visit the archive or the latest newsletter:

PDF Icon Winter 2010 Newsletter (PDF 782Kb)

 

Update on The Marmot Review

Last week Professor Sir Michael Marmot was appointed President of the British Medical Assocation. He has recently responded to the National Audit Office's report on health inequalities, explaining why health inequalities are not narrowing. A new website for The Marmot Review is now available www.marmotreview.org. Ellen Bloomer at University College London (and a Research Fellow on The Marmot Review) would like to hear from anyone who is carrying out local interventions and activities on the issue of health inequalities. She can be contacted at e.bloomer@public-health.ucl.ac.uk.

PHORCaST - New Public Health Career Development Website

PHORCaST (www.phorcast.org.uk) stands for Public Health Online Resource in Careers, Skills and Training. It is the first "one-stop shop" for UK-wide information on careers and development in public health and health and wellbeing.

New Public HealthTeaching Resources

New pre-qualification level public health teaching resources, on public health aspects of child health, diabetes, stroke and coronary heart disease, are now available to download from the Health Knowledge website. For further information of LTPHN involvement in this project see our current projects page

Upcoming events:

Translating Science to Policy
Mon 6th Sep 2010

Health Protection 2010
Tue 14th Sep 2010

Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in Europe conference
Thu 23rd Sep 2010

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