ICUH 2014 Speaker Profiles: Professor Trevor Hancock

www.icuh2014.com is pleased to announce Professor and Senior Scholar at the new School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria and co-founder of WHO’s Healthy Cities and Communities Movement, Professor Trevor Hancock, as a special guest speaker at the conference next March (4^th – 7^th).

Professor Trevor Hancock received his medical training at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, England, graduating in 1973, and worked as a family physician in rural New Brunswick and in a community health centre in Toronto before obtaining a post-graduate degree in community health and epidemiology at the University of Toronto in 1980.  He was an Associate Medical Officer of Health for the City of Toronto from 1981 - 86, and from 1986 - 2002 he was an independent consultant. He also held a part-time appointment as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto, from 1986 to 2000.

Dr. Trevor Hancock is a public health physician and health promotion consultant and is currently a Professor and Senior Scholar at the new School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria, where he teaches graduate courses in population health promotion, public health practice, the environments of health and healthy public policy. The main focus of his work has been in the area of healthy cities and communities and he is one of the founders of the now global Healthy Cities and Communities movement. His other main areas of interest are population health promotion, public health, healthy public policy, environment and health, healthy and 'green' hospitals, health policy and planning, and health futurism. He has been described as “one of the ten best health futurists in the world”.

Over the past 25 years he has worked as a consultant for local communities, municipal, provincial and national governments, health care organizations, NGOs and the World Health Organization.  He was an Advisor and consultant to WHO Europe's Healthy Cities initiative and co-authored the original background paper for the project in 1986. He was the principal consultant for the Healthy Toronto 2000 project; wrote the proposal for and was a consultant to the Canadian Healthy Communities Network; was the founding Chair of the Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition; has consulted to healthy city/community projects in several countries (notably Sweden and the USA) as well as across Canada and has recently helped to re-establish the BC Healthy Communities Initiative. He was also the first leader of the Green Party of Canada and under his leadership, the party ran 60 candidates in the 1984 federal election.

To hear Professor Trevor Hancock talk about his work at ICUH 2014 (4^th – 7^th March) you can register at http://www.icuh2014.com/Home/RegCard or via our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/icuh2014 and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ICUH2014

ICUH 2014 Speaker Profiles: Professor Martin McKee

www.icuh2014.com is pleased to announce the president-elect of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) and Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor Martin McKee as a special guest speaker at the conference next March (4^th – 7^th).

Professor McKee qualified in medicine in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with subsequent training in internal medicine and public health. He is Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he is co-director of the European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (ECOHOST), a WHO Collaborating Centre, as well as being research director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and president-elect of the European Public Health Association.

He has published over 720 academic papers and 42 books and his contributions to European health policy have been recognised by, among others, election to the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences, and the US Institute of Medicine, by the award of honorary doctorates from Hungary, The Netherlands, and Sweden and visiting professorships at universities in Europe and Asia, the 2003 Andrija Stampar medal for contributions to European public health and in 2005 was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) ) by HM Queen Elizabeth II.

To hear Professor Martin McKee talk about European Public Health at ICUH 2014 (4^th – 7^th March) you can register at http://www.icuh2014.com/Home/RegCard or via our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/icuh2014 and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ICUH2014

ICUH 2014 Speaker Profiles: Professor Sir Michael Marmot

www.icuh2014.com is happy to announce the Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London (UCL) and Fellow of the English Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Professor Sir Michael Marmot as a special guest speaker at the conference next March (4^th – 7^th).

Professor Marmot graduated in medicine in 1965 from the University of Sydney, he went on to achieve an MPH and a PHD from the University of California, Berkley.

As well as his role at UCL, Professor Marmot has been involved in some ground breaking studies of heart disease and strokes comparing people in Japan (high stroke rates, low heart attack rates) with those in Hawaii and California. More recently he led the Whitehall studies of British civil servants which focused again on heart disease and other disease patterns, this work inspired the American documentary, ‘Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?’ a series that examined the social determinants of health. 

He has a particular interest in health inequalities and why they are caused and he is the government’s official advisor on how to identify and mitigate them. He served on the Scientific Advisory Group of the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health chaired by former UK Chief Medical Officer, Sir Donald Acheson.

Professor Marmot was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen in 2002, for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities.  Internationally acclaimed, Professor Marmot is a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and a former Vice President of the Academia Europaea.  He won the Balzan Prize for Epidemiology in 2004, gave the Harveian Oration in 2006, and won the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research in 2008.

To hear Professor Sir Michael Marmot talk about his work at ICUH 2014 (4^th – 7^th March) you can register at http://www.icuh2014.com/Home/RegCard or via our Facebook pagehttps://www.facebook.com/icuh2014 and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter!https://twitter.com/ICUH2014