PUBLIC EVENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
LECTURES & SEMINARS
MEDICINE, DENTISTRY & HEALTH
The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health is one of the major UK centres for education and research in health and related subjects. With origins dating back to 1828, the faculty has a long-standing tradition of excellence in clinical education and research.
ScHARR Inaugural Lecture
PUBLIC HEALTH: THE SCIENCE AND ART
Honorary Professor Nick Payne
WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER, 5.15pm
Richard Roberts Auditorium
During his lecture, Nick Payne will first discuss the challenges in attempting to develop public health interventions in the first place. He will argue that the process of public health intervention development needs to be improved, and will draw comparisons with the process of developing and introducing clinical treatments such as pharmaceutical products and surgical procedures. Secondly, he will describe how inequalities in the provision and uptake of health services can be researched, and how there is an important link between clinical interventions, their delivery and availability, and their overall effectiveness in wider public health terms. He will suggest that the distinction usually made between clinical and public health interventions may not always be as clear cut as it might seem at first.