Welcome to this special edition of pH1, intended to bring you all the information you need to know to sign up to and get involved with Public Health Fu- tures, the 2010 Trainee Collo- quium (I love the word colloquium, but can‟t justify using it that often, so will revert to conference in the next paragraph!). This colloquium is being organised by Informing Healthier Choices which, as Penny Cole explains in her article, has been the pioneer- ing force for some key public health projects in the past couple of years. This conference is specifically de- signed for Public Health trainees and is intended to inform and in- spire, both from the work of the IHC and from our own work. With the backing of Sir Muir Gray and the Training Programme Directors, it now just remains for us to regis- ter for the conference, sign up for twitter alerts and get thinking caps on to come up with that killer slide that is going to leave the rest of us speechless! Of course, the real questions every- one wants to know the answer to are: who will the judges decide has the most innovative ideas and who has made the most impact on pub- lic health. Which Deanery has the trainees with the X Factor?? Contact details for the conference in the form of website, email ad- dresses and twitter account are provided throughout the newsletter. However, if you have any additional queries, please drop us a line at [email protected]. We will be back with our regular newsletter in January, so please get any articles for this edition to us by December 15 th . Have a Fantas- tic Christmas, may your on calls be quiet, and we wish you a very healthy New Year! VOLUME 1 ISSUE 3 DECEMBER pH 1…far from neutral Who’s got the X Factor…? In this Issue... Who’s got the X Fac- tor? 1 What does the Future Hold? 2 Getting with the Programme 3-4 Weblinks 4 Public Health Futures Twitter Updates 4 Public Health Futures Conference 5-6 The Technical Bits: Registering for the Conference & Submit- ting your Work 7 Key Conference Facts 8 Join the Team 8 Travelling Far? 8 If you have difficulty reading this newsletter format, a black and white version is also available. Please e-mail [email protected]to request a plain format copy. Thanks.
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Welcome to this special
edition of pH1, intended to
bring you all the information you need to know to sign up to and get involved with Public Health Fu-tures, the 2010 Trainee Collo-quium (I love the word colloquium, but can‟t justify using it that often, so will revert to conference in the next paragraph!). This colloquium is being organised by Informing Healthier Choices which, as Penny Cole explains in her article, has been the pioneer-ing force for some key public health projects in the past couple of years. This conference is specifically de-signed for Public Health trainees and is intended to inform and in-spire, both from the work of the IHC and from our own work. With the backing of Sir Muir Gray and the Training Programme Directors, it now just remains for us to regis-ter for the conference, sign up for twitter alerts and get thinking caps on to come up with that killer slide that is going to leave the rest of us
speechless!
Of course, the real questions every-one wants to know the answer to are: who will the judges decide has the most innovative ideas and who has made the most impact on pub-lic health. Which Deanery has the trainees with the X Factor??
Contact details for the conference in the form of website, email ad-dresses and twitter account are provided throughout the newsletter. However, if you have any additional queries, please drop us a line at [email protected]. We will be back with our regular newsletter in January, so please get any articles for this edition to us by December 15th. Have a Fantas-tic Christmas, may your on calls be quiet, and we wish you a very healthy New Year!
V O L U M E 1 I S S U E 3 D E C E M B E R
pH 1…far from neutral
Who’s got the X Factor…? In this Issue...
Who’s got the X Fac-
tor? 1
What does the Future
Hold? 2
Getting with the
Programme 3-4
Weblinks 4
Public Health Futures
Twitter Updates 4
Public Health Futures
Conference 5-6
The Technical Bits:
Registering for the
Conference & Submit-
ting your Work 7
Key Conference Facts
8
Join the Team 8
Travelling Far? 8
If you have difficulty reading this newsletter format, a black and white version is also available.
Please e-mail [email protected] to request a plain format copy. Thanks.
Have you used health intelligence to leverage a decision about a policy direction, a service de-
velopment, a partnership activity or other change? The work can be from any part of public
health, and may encompass areas such as communication of public health issues or use of tools
and techniques in creative ways. The panel are looking for trainees who have taken an innova-
tive approach to their chosen issue, and will be as pleased to receive submissions from those
approaches which did not have the desired impact as from those which were outstanding suc-
cesses.
For this format, you will need to submit a summary of the project, along with a short report
addressing each of the 4 judging criteria (below), using not more than 200 words to respond to
each criteria (for how to submit these documents, see “The Technical Bit” article on page 7).
Eligibility: The work must have been undertaken within the last 2 calendar years within the UK
(i.e. From 1 January 2008).
Selection criteria: Work will be chosen that best demonstrates:
1. A topic area likely to be important in the coming years.
2. A clear reason for choosing the approach taken. There will be particular focus on
innovative use of techniques or tools.
3. A clear description of the outcome and its impact (or reasons for lack of success and
impact if appropriate).
4. Learning points from the project.
Closing date for submission: 15 January 2010.
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Uploading your Work to the Conference Website:
Work for both the killer slide and the health intelligence brief will be submitted in the form of a single powerpoint presentation. For killer slides: please upload a presentation consisting of your killer slide followed by one slide ad-dressing each of the 4 judging criteria (1 presentation, 5 slides in total).
For health intelligence work: please upload a presentation consisting of your summary slides first
(maximum of 2) followed by one slide addressing each of the judging criteria (1 presentation, maximum of
6 slides).
If you have a Slideshare account: 1. Upload your presentation to Slideshare. Add information about the presentation, including #phf in the tag field. 2. Go to http://www.slideshare.net/event/public-health-futures/join. 3. Return to your presentation, click on More… and add your presentation to the Public Health Futures Event (Figure 1).
If you don’t have a slideshare account: 1. Make sure your slide includes your Name and email address 2. Send your slide as an e-mail attachment to [email protected] and (importantly) cc
[email protected]. That will enable us to add your presentation to the event and let you know how to
view it.
Signing up for the Public Health Futures Conference
Public Health Futures have a dedicated website: http://www.phfutures.org. You will need to register on this website to secure your place. Tickets are free but places are limited. After registering you will receive a confirmation e-mail with a ticket attached, which you should bring on the day. You will also be able to see a location map and add the conference to your calendar. There is also a page on the website that allows you to post your thoughts on the upcoming conference and as work is uploaded (see below), you
will be able to visit the site and look at people‟s “killer slides”.
The Technical Bits... Ben Toth, IHC’s resident technical guru, tells us how to sign up and
Public Health Dental Trainees Public Health Analyst Trainees Public Health Academic Associates Training Programme Directors
Informing Healthier Choices Team
Register your place at: www.phfutures.org
Sign up for the Evening Reception (22nd February 2010) at: http://phfeveningreception.eventbrite.com/
Sign up for the National Trainee Website Team: Email: [email protected]
Deadline for submitting work: 15th January 2010 (see page 7 for instructions)
Conference Content: Workshops led by Informing Healthier Choices Team
Trainee presentations & discussions of killer slides & health intelligence projects
Keynote Speakers: Sir Liam Donaldson & Professor Sir Michael Marmot
Travelling Far?
Much as London might aspire to be the centre of the universe, most of us will still have to travel some way to get to the King‟s Fund on February 23rd. If you would prefer to travel down the night before, Muir Gray and the IHC team have arranged a reception at the King‟s Fund on the evening of February 22nd to catch up with fellow trainees from other Deaneries. Places are limited due to the size of the room, but if you are not travelling far and would like the opportunity to join us, we will see how many we can squeeze in! To reserve your place at the evening reception, please
register at http://phfeveningreception.eventbrite.com/.
National Public Health Trainee Website: Join the Team! Following the Public Health Futures conference in February 2010, www.phfutures.org will be-come a National website for Public Health Trainees. If you would like to be part of the
website team that leads in the development of this resource, please email Ben Toth at [email protected]. Ben is the IHC IT guru and will be leading a session on website devel-opment at the February conference for every-one who expresses an interest in being part of the team.
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If you have difficulty reading this newsletter format, a black and white version is also available.
Please e-mail [email protected] to request a plain format copy. Thanks.