Prof John Frank from University of Edinburgh (UK) to present workshop on The Basic Principles of Public Health
The School of Public Health and Family Medicine will host a workshop on The Basic Principles of Public Health presented by guest speaker, Professor John Frank, from the University of Edinburgh (UK).
Professor John Frank holds a Chair at the University of Edinburgh in Public Health Research and Policy, is Director of Knowledge Exchange and Research Impact for the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics and is also Honorary Public Health Consultant to the Scottish Public Health Observatory.
His broad research and professional interests - represented in 290 scientific publications over 35 years - concern the determinants of population and individual health status, especially the causes, remediation and prevention of socio-economic gradients in health. In 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his scientific contributions.