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    2011

  1. Research and development of medical products: opportunities and challenges
  2. Statement on water and health
  3. Statement on mental health policy issues
  4. Academy response to Royal Society consultation on 'Science as a public enterprise'
  5. Diabetes & obesity: getting to the heart of the matter

    6. 2010

  6. Inter Academy Medical Panel Statement on the health co-benefits of policies to tackle climate change
  7. Statement on the health of women and children
  8. Academy submissions to the spending review consultation 2010
  9. Biomedical research - a platform for increasing health and wealth in the UK
  10. Redressing the balance: the status and valuation of teaching in academic careers
  11. Reaping the rewards: a vision for UK medical science
  12. Revalidation reforms

    13. 2009

  13. Academia, industry and the NHS: collaboration and innovation
  14. Rejuvenating ageing research
  15. Genome-wide association studies: understanding the genetics of common disease
  16. Global health diagnostics: research, development and regulation
  17. Biotechnology innovation: opportunities and challenges
  18. Research in general practice

    19. 2008

  19. Global mental health
  20. Brain science, addiction and drugs
  21. Inter-species embryos
  22. Building clinical academic capacity and the allocation of resources across academic specialties

    23. 2007

  23. Optimising stratified medicines R&D: addressing scientific and economic issues
  24. Identifying the environmental causes of disease
  25. Careers for biomedical scientists and clinicians in industry
  26. Modernising medical careers inquiry
  27. Systems biology

    28. 2006

  28. Personal data for public good: using health information in medical research
  29. Use of non-human primates in research
  30. Pandemic influenza
  31. Science of violence
  32. Reform of research funding and assessment
  33. Public health - ethical issues
  34. Sir David Cooksey's review of UK health research
  35. Medical research: assessing the benefits to society
  36. Research ethics committees
  37. MB PhD working group
  38. Testing antibody therapies

    39. 2005

  39. Safer Medicines
  40. Human tissue consultations
  41. RAE 2008 Consultation: Panel criteria and methods
  42. The freedom to succeed
  43. Mental Capacity Bill
  44. Strengthening health services research
  45. SARS
  46. Microbial challenge studies

    47. 2004

  47. Detection and identification of infectious disease
  48. The science of ageing
  49. Choosing health
  50. Restoring neurological function
  51. Calling time: the nation's drinking as a major health issue
  52. Science spending
  53. Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
  54. Human tissue legislation

    55. 2003

  55. Strengthening clinical research

    56. 2002

  56. Unclaimed and unidentified organs
  57. Infectious disease in livestock
  58. The structure, constitution and governance of the General Medical Council

    59. 2001

  59. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE)
  60. Vaccines - current status and future needs
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Choosing health

Summary| Working Group Membership| Project Downloads

Summary:

In March 2004 the Department of Health issued a consultation entitled ‘Choosing Health?’ about future Government public health strategy. Initially the Academy contacted a selection of its Fellowship expert in public health, as well as its Officers, for comment. A Working Group then prepared a draft response that was sent to key stakeholders for consultation. The Academy response was published in June 2004.

The Academy recommended:

  • strengthening public health surveillance;
  • streamlining current research regulation;
  • strengthening the academic base of public health;
  • recognition that the aims of public health research are often longer term than those of clinical medicine; and
  • that public health should be promoted through appropriate government polices as well as encouraging informed individual choice.

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Working Group Membership:

Professor Andrew Haines FMedSci (Chair)
Dean, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Professor Roy Anderson FRS FMedSci
Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Head of Department, Imperial College London

Professor Sir Richard Doll OBE FRS FMedSci

Professor William James CBE FMedSci
Director, Public Health Policy Group and Chairman, International Obesity Task Force

Professor Kay-Tee Khaw FMedSci
Professor of Clinical Gerontology, University of Cambridge

Professor Michael King
Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry, Royal Free and University College London Medical School

Professor Sir Michael Marmot FMedSci
Professor of Epidemiology and Public health, University College London

Professor Nick Wald FRS FMedSci
Professor of Environmental and Preventative Medicine, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry

Professor Jonathan Weber FMedSci
Jefferiss Professor of GU Medicine and Communicable Diseases, Imperial College School of Medicine, London

Secretariat

Laurie Smith
Policy Officer
The Academy of Medical Sciences


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