Postgraduate Student Conference
International Conference for Public Health Students
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Conference Details
Date: Saturday, 2nd November, 2024
Venue: Oculus, University of Warwick (and online)
Conference Programme: A detailed conference programme will be available on this page by September 2024
Conference Theme: Advancing Healthy Lives and Wellbeing for All
Pre-conference Workshop (In-person)
Sessions:
- Academic Writing.
- Publishing in peer-reviewed academic journals.
- Presentation Skills.
- Grant Writing.
- Public Health Career Development.
- Personal Development.
- Interdisciplinary Research.
Date: Friday 1st of November 2024.
Venue: WMS Building, Gibbet Hill, University of Warwick.
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Keynote Speakers
Professor Kevin FentonCBE PhD PrFPH FRCP FFSRH (Hon)
President of the Faculty of Public Health
Talk title: Leading in Complex Times: What is the Future of Public Health?
Professor Kevin Fenton is the President of the Faculty of Public Health. He is a senior public health expert and infectious disease epidemiologist who has worked in a variety of public health executive leadership roles across government and academia in the United Kingdom and internationally. His specialist interests are in tackling health inequalities, infectious disease prevention and control, climate justice and urban health.
Professor Fenton is the Regional Director for London in the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) within the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). Within this role, he is also the statutory public health advisor to the Mayor of London and the Greater London Authority and the Regional Director of Public Health for NHS London. He is also the government’s Chief Advisor on HIV and Chair of the HIV Action Plan Implementation Steering Group for England.
Before taking up the role of Regional Director for London, he held the joint position of Strategic Director of Place & Wellbeing and Director of Public Health at Southwark and was also a senior advisor to Public Health England. He was awarded a CBE in the 2022 New Year honours list for services to public health.
Professor Céire Costelloe
Professor and Group Leader, Health Informatics,The Institute of Cancer Research
Talk title: Harnessing the Power of Healthcare Data: Using Real-world Data to Drive Digital Innovation
Professor Céire Costelloe is a Medical Statistician and Lead for Health Informatics at the Institute of Cancer Research and an honorary Professor of Digital Health at Imperial College London, where she established the Global Digital Health unit in the School of Public Health.
Professor Costelloe also leads Health Informatics research within the NIHR Institute of Cancer Research Biomedical Research Centre. She is a Chartered Statistician who has spent time working at the UKCRC Bristol Randomised Trials Collaboration, as well as holding a Lectureship in Medical Statistics within the UKCRC Pragmatic Clinical Trials unit at Queen Mary University.
Professor Costelloe has a keen interest in pragmatic clinical trial design, natural experiments, and how novel statistical methodology can improve the robustness of evaluations using real-world data.
Prof Diane Ashiru-Oredope
Lead Pharmacist, HCAI, Fungal, AMR, AMU & Sepsis Division
UK Health Security Agency
Talk title: Enhancing our Understanding and Addressing Inequalities in Antimicrobial Resistance
Professor Diane Ashiru-Oredope, a Credentialed Consultant Pharmacist is Lead Pharmacist for the Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections, UK Health Security Agency. She is also Deputy Chief Scientist for Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Honorary Chair & Professor of Pharmaceutical Public Health at University of Nottingham.
Professor Ashiru-Oredope, chairs the English Surveillance Programme for Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resistance (ESPAUR) and the National Planning Group for World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week.
An antimicrobial pharmacist by background, Diane has led several projects that have shaped national and international policy in tackling antimicrobial resistance, including Start Smart then Focus, WHO policy guidance on integrated antimicrobial stewardship activities and creating the global Antibiotic Guardian campaign in 2014. From 2016 until March 2022, she was advisor and Global AMR lead for the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association. In her CPA role as Global AMR lead, she co-led the development of and was the technical programme lead for the Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship, which continues to operate across eight African countries.
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