Nice quote from Virginia Mzunzu (Full time Health Promotion student, 2015 entry) of being awarded scholarship to study health promotion. https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/the-hub/Pages/Celebrating-success,-achievement-and-endeavour.aspx
date for your diary.
Its worth digging down beyond the sugar- tax proposals that are making all the headlines from Public Health England’s sugar evidence review. Here are a few points from the report that are worth chewing over:
1) More years of good health and wellbeing. Mission impossible? Jörg Huber Professor of Health Sciences, Inaugural lecture –
Thursday 29 October 2015 at 6.30pm Asa Briggs Hall Checkland Building,
Life expectancy has been increasing for some time now and further increases are expected. However, the number of years we live a healthy life has barely increased. This conundrum of long lives in combination with poor health and wellbeing has been an interest of mine for some time now although not always deliberately so. Improving health and wellbeing has been the focus of many efforts, and my own research reflects some of these efforts: research on physical activity, diet, smoking and alcohol consumption, and above all on diabetes as a major chronic condition will look at some of the options which are available to achieve the impossible: better health, better wellbeing and a better life.
Booking is essential. To register for this event, please book via the online shop: https://bit.ly/ProfJHuber or email Events@brighton.ac.uk
the promotional poster is at : Inaugural poster Jörg Huber v3
2) Health as an outcome of social practices: Re-conceptualising health education through a socio-technical lens
Thurs 15th October, 4 – 5.30pm, M126, Mayfield, Falmer
Dr Cecily MallerSenior Research Fellow and Co-Leader Beyond Behaviour Change Research Program, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Australia
All welcome. for further info and to register your attendance please click here:: All welcome cecily maller
Vironya Ibrahim – student on Health Promotion MA did her voluntary placement for the Community Engagement module, with Brighton & Hove Food Partnership and features in their Youtube clip.
Starting the new academic year off with a Health Promotion Afternoon tea – September 30th from 3pm.
This is timed to run at the end of the third day of the 2015 Foundations of Health Promotion module, giving new students a chance to meet current and past students and for us all to have a bit of a network and catch up.
Contributions/ help welcome. Hope to see you there.
Carol
The Socialist Health Association have 2 fringe meetings organised at the Labour Party Conference which is taking place in Brighton next week. Unlike the main party conference meetings which require security passes, fringe meetings like this one are open – and we have been invited.
If you have never been to one, fringe meetings can be an interesting opportunity to a) hear renown speakers, b) see what type of questions politicians and party members raise – and just take advantage of the fact that the political party conferences sometimes take place locally.
Tuesday 29th of Sept at the Brighthelm Centre, North Road, Brighton, BN1 1YD – very close to the station
Health and austerity 6pm on Tuesday 29th with
Professor Richard Wilkinson of the Equality Trust, joint author of The Spirit Level and
Debbie Abrahams MP
