Health and Society UCL Summer School, 30 June – 4 July 2008

University College London

Website: www.ucl.ac.uk/healthandsociety

Brochure:  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/healthandsociety/myimages/Summer%20School%2007%20flyer.pdf

The Social Determinants of Health course will cover: Class, Work, Gender, Ethnicity, Area effects and health, Life course approach to social epidemiology,

The Russian mortality crisis, and Social biological translation.

The International Health Option will cover: Global health patterns, International socio-economic development, International and in-country health inequality (child mortality), Globalization and health, Architecture of international health, Governance and health, Health systems and Fragile states: state breakdown, conflict and displacement.

Joint sessions: Professor Sir Michael Marmot will open the summer school with a presentation on the Social determinants of health and close the week with a

lecture and discussion on National – since the Black Report – and international policy development.

Professor Richard Wilkinson will give a guest lecture on Relative deprivation and income inequality.

A public lecture will also be hosted during the summer school on the topic ‘Obesity – What hope for change?’ speakers include Professors Tim Lang, City University, Jane Wardle, UCL, Martin McKee, LSHTM and Phil James, International Obesity Task Force (tbc). The public lecture will be chaired by Dr Eric Brunner.

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Directors and teaching staff:

Professor Mel Bartley, Dr Martin Bobak,

Dr Eric Brunner (Course director),

Dr Tarani Chandola, Dr Sharon Friel,

Dr Tanja Houweling, Professor Diana

Kuh, Dr Hynek Pikhart (Course director),

Dr Mai Stafford and Dr Sebastian Taylor.

Contact Catherine Conroy (course administrator). T: +44 (0)20 7679 1680 E: graduateinfo@public-health.ucl.ac.uk