The ABRC are excited to welcome Professor Sarah Stewart-Brown, from Wellbeing Ventures, in a discussion about wellbeing from a scientific perspective.

When: Thursday 13th February, 11.30

Where: GLT1 (Gibbet Hill, Medical School Building)

This seminar will be followed by a networking lunch for attendees, in Lower Ground Floor Atrium IBRB.

All are welcome to attend this event, please sign up here!Link opens in a new window

Talk Abstract

This lecture will address the science of wellbeing from an interdisciplinary perspective. It will cover the impact of lack of wellbeing on productivity, creativity and relationships as well approaches to improving wellbeing. It will discuss the value of changing the environment in the workplace and the value of changing the self, including new knowledge from the world of nutrition, physical activity and psychology.

Speaker Biography

Sarah Stewart-Brown is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at the University of Warwick. She is a public health doctor whose career has spanned academic and service practice and now includes consultancy, coaching and wellbeing teaching and training. Her research underpinned her leadership in neglected aspects of public health including public mental health. Her most recent contributions lie in the development and validation of measures of mental wellbeing, the identification of risk and protective factors for mental illness and primary and secondary research on different approaches to the promotion of mental health and wellbeing. She is currently an expert adviser to several research projects and programmes including the NIHR Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Team (PHIRST) and ATTUNE, an MRC funded multisite collaboration between the Universities of Oxford Falmouth Kent Leeds QMUL KCL UCL and Greenwich exploring young people’s mental health following adverse childhood experiences

Early in her career Sarah worked in the UK NHS in paediatrics and in public health giving her practical experience of health care as well as expertise in research and teaching. She has published extensively with over 250 peer review journal publications, books, book chapters and reports. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from Bristol University and is a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and the Royal College of Physicians of London.

She has advised English, Scottish and Welsh Governments on public mental health in a variety of contexts. In 2015 Sarah was awarded the prestigious Wilfred Harding Prize by the Faculty of Public Health in recognition of her contribution to and leadership in public health.