Social sciences: Shaping health worldwide
Symposium brochure
Category: Useful Resources
Sub Category: Method Guidance
Author: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Published Date: 31 March 2014
Description
Forewords
Professor Mike Kelly, Director of the Centre of Public Health at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Professor Vinh Kim Nguyen, Associate professor in the Department of Social and Preventative Medicine at the University of Montreal
Professor Janet Seeley, Head of the Social Science Programme, MRC Medical Research Council/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS
Introduction
Baron Piot, Professor of Global Health and Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He was previously Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, founding Executive Director of UNAIDS, and has published over 500 scientific articles and 16 books on infectious diseases.
Please refer to page 11 to learn more about the London School's social science work on malaria, including background to the ACT Consortium studies led by Dr Clare Chandler and Dr Eleanor Hutchinson.