In a bid to increase transparency, Coca-Cola has disclosed spending US$118·6 million in the past 5 years on scientific research and health and wellbeing partnerships.
What are your views on health organisations receiving such funding from the food and drinks industry? A severe conflict of interest or doing something good with ‘dirty’ money?
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2815%2900397-9/fulltext
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
Sam Mallender from CaSH is inviting health promotion students to volunteer with CaSH – this is an excellent opportunity which previous students have valued greatly.
You could use the experience as a placement for the 20 credit Community Engagement Module NA6171 – or simply volunteer to learn about delivering sexual health in the UK to young people – training is provided.
Hello -and welcome back for the new academic year.
A helpful way to catch up and keep abreast with what is going on in UK and EU public health is to sign up to the free weekly public health information update from the UK Health Forum – see link below. The UK Health Forum is a non governmental organisation, formerly the National Heart Forum.
The weekly update service has just introduced a section on inequalities – so if you are already a subscriber, you may need to go online and update your subscription preferences.
http://www.ukhealthforum.org.uk/prevention/pie/
Hope you find the link useful.
Date for your diary – lets start 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.
Room to be confirmed – rain permitting, might be outside.
Contributions/ help welcome. Hope to see you there.
Carol
Follow the link to explore our local health profile http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/content/health/public-health-brighton-hove/annual-report-director-public-health-2014-15
The report is using some interesting infographics – this one compares B&Hs areas of multiple deprivation with other such areas nationally. It shows how in B&H there are high educational levels in our deprived areas, but for health and housing the city is one of the worst.
Our new Infant Feeding and Public Health module will be offered in May 2016. This is an optional module, and looks at infant feeding from a coordination or commissioning perspective. For students with a strong interest in nutrition it complements the Nutrition in Public Health module offered via the medical school programme; taken together would give your MA Health Promotion a thorough Nutrition Promotion underpinning, ideal if you want to look at nutrition in your dissertation.
The curriculum – and some of the speakers – draws on the WHO/UNICEF Breastfeeding: Practice and Policy Course which Carol co-directed for more than 10 years at UCL-Institute of Child Health before joining University of Brighton.
It can also be taken as a single module, with or without the assessment. It would be an ideal ‘taster module’ if anyone wants to try out what masters level study at University of Brighton is like.
For details, see pdf attached. (WNA7138 infant feeding and public health module flyer 2016 may 15 We are in the process of updating the online shop to facilitate single module bookings)
Recent masters graduate, Lauren Shukru presented the findings from her dissertation research to the recent Brighton & Sussex University Food Network Symposium see bsufn.
The title of her presentation was
“What do young people aged 16-18 in further education think about healthy eating, and what does this mean for health promotion?”
Her focus group research identified that the increase in autonomy that came with the transition from school to further education college was viewed with ambivalence, and there was a sense of nostalgia for the routine and regulation associated with school. Young people in further education colleges were experiencing stress and uncertainty and, although peer-pressure about food choices had reduced since school, the need to be part of a social group remained strong. Snacking and convenience were drivers of unhealthy eating behaviours, with a clear culture of ‘grab-and-go’ food that enabled students to eat with friends in the brief gaps between taught sessions.
Lauren is currently writing up her work with support from Carol and Nigel and plans to submit for publication.
