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Webinars:

• 7 October 2021 
  • Theme: Gambling and public health – is regulation a sure bet? Perspectives from New Zealand, the UK and Ireland. Hosted with the Institute of Public Health in Ireland
  • Speakers from the UK and Ireland: Wales: Claire Beynon (Public Health Wales and Stephanie Barnhouse (Welsh Government), England: Sue Duckworth (Leeds City Council), Scotland: Phil Mackie (Public Health Scotland), Ireland: Helen McAvoy (IPH), Northern Ireland: Joanna Purdy (IPH).
  • Keynote speaker: Dr Maria Bellringer, Director, AUT Gambling and Addictions Research Centre. Acting Co-Director, Public Health and Mental Health Research Institute. Minimising gambling harms: the New Zealand public health approach
  • Summary notes and a copy of the presentations can be found here (For members only. If you’d like access to this page please email us).
• 17 June 2020 (safe space workshop)
  • Theme: Using Trade to Improve the Public’s Health and Wellbeing
• 15 July 2020 (safe space workshop)
  • Theme: Public-Private Partnerships: the benefits, dangers and relative effectiveness of PPPs

Conferences:

• 23 March 2018
  • Theme: Healthy trade: conversations on the impact of trade and investment agreements for public health in the UK
  • Notes from the conference can be read here.
  • Presentations:
    • Conversation 1: Prof L. Alan Winters
    • Conversation 2: Dr Modi Mwatsama
    • Conversation 3: Mark Weiss and Rhosyn Harris

Network summit meetings:

• Summit 12: 14 September 2021
  • Theme: The Comprehensive Spending Review 2021
• Summit 11: 7 April 2021
  • Theme: The Transformation of the public health system
• Summit 10: 26 November 2020
  • Theme: The future of public health: UK Public Health Network and PHE roundtable
• Summit 9: 21 October 2019
  • Theme: Reframing public health
  •  A summary of the discussions here.
• Summit 8: 22 May 2019
  • Theme: Delivering sustainability: lessons from the Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act
  • A summary of the discussions here.
• Summit 7: 28 September 2018
  • Theme: Fiscal and economic planning for investment in public health
  • A summary of the discussions here.
• Summit 6: 18 October 2017
  • Theme: The right to health: “equity and ethics with teeth”
  • A summary of the discussions here
• Summit 5: 14 October 2016
  • Theme: Making the most of Brexit.
  • A summary of the discussions here.
• Summit 4: 20 May 2016
  • Theme: Investing in the health of the public: raising our game.
  • A summary of the discussions here.
• Summit 3: 8 October 2015
  • Theme: The need for and scope of a new “health and wellbeing of future generations UK act.”
  • A summary of the discussions here.
• Summit 2: 21 May 2015
  • Theme: Identifying the top priorities for improving the public’s health across the UK.
  • A discussion of the priorities can be found here.
• Summit 1: 8 October 2014
  • Theme: The need for a UK Public Health Network as a means of uniting the public health profession