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Barbara Smoker honoured on her 95th birthday.
Author Barbara Smoker recently attended a 95th birthday party at Conway Hall to celebrate her career and her lifetime service for humanism and secularism, and as an honorary lecturer at the Ethical Society.
Guest lecture by Professor Costello at University College London.
In March 2018, Professor Costello gave a guest lecture at the UCL Institute for Child Health on ‘The Social Edge: population approaches to women’s and children’s health.’ He described his work at the World Health Organisation and his team’s large-scale studies of women groups in Asia and Africa. They dramatically cut maternal and newborn deaths even where health services were rudimentary. In this lecture, he outlined population approaches to improve global women’s and children’s health. Learning from these experiments to build social trust, he analysed why and how successful organisations keep promises and build social capital.
Guest lectures at Yale University
On April 6th 2018 Anthony Costello gave a plenary lecture on the Lancet Countdown Tracking Progress on Climate Change and Health, at the Yale Workshop to address the environmental footprint of clinical care.
https://sustainability.yale.edu/news/workshop-address-environmental-footprint-clinical-care
On April 9th he spoke in Washington on climate change and health at the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health meeting on Climate Health Solutions.
www.medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org
World Health Organisation, Geneva
On June 22nd 2018 he joined a meeting in Geneva to discuss realigning child health in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Queens Park Book Festival
Anthony Costello chaired a session at one of London’s main book festivals where he discussed a new book by Marina Cantacuzino called ‘Forgiveness is Really Strange’ and was questioned by Marina about The Social Edge.
July 11th 17:30 The David Sanders Annual Lecture in Public Health and Justice:
School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
“The Social Edge: The power of sympathy groups for health and sutainable development”
July 12th 08:00 Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Cape Town
“New challenges for evidence and quality in primary and community child health”
12:00 South African Medical Research Council “How can we make health systems relational and sustainable”
News and Events
Barbara Smoker honoured on her 95th birthday.
Guest lecture by Professor Costello at University College London.
In March 2018, Professor Costello gave a guest lecture at the UCL Institute for Child Health on ‘The Social Edge: population approaches to women’s and children’s health.’ He described his work at the World Health Organisation and his team’s large-scale studies of women groups in Asia and Africa. They dramatically cut maternal and newborn deaths even where health services were rudimentary. In this lecture, he outlined population approaches to improve global women’s and children’s health. Learning from these experiments to build social trust, he analysed why and how successful organisations keep promises and build social capital.
Guest lectures at Yale University
On April 6th 2018 Anthony Costello gave a plenary lecture on the Lancet Countdown Tracking Progress on Climate Change and Health, at the Yale Workshop to address the environmental footprint of clinical care.
https://sustainability.yale.edu/news/workshop-address-environmental-footprint-clinical-care
On April 9th he spoke in Washington on climate change and health at the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health meeting on Climate Health Solutions.
www.medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org
World Health Organisation, Geneva
On June 22nd 2018 he joined a meeting in Geneva to discuss realigning child health in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Queens Park Book Festival
Anthony Costello chaired a session at one of London’s main book festivals where he discussed a new book by Marina Cantacuzino called ‘Forgiveness is Really Strange’ and was questioned by Marina about The Social Edge.
July 11th 17:30 The David Sanders Annual Lecture in Public Health and Justice:
School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
“The Social Edge: The power of sympathy groups for health and sutainable development”
July 12th 08:00 Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Cape Town
“New challenges for evidence and quality in primary and community child health”
12:00 South African Medical Research Council “How can we make health systems relational and sustainable”
December 10th ’Take Back Control: Empowering People in the Welfare State’ at 5.30 -7.15pm, the UCL Cruciform Building, Gower St, London WC1 to join:
Ed Miliband: former leader of the UK Labour Party
Hilary Cottam: author of ‘Radical Help’, who aims to reform the welfare state through deep participation)
Helen Killaspy: Professor of Psychiatry
Anthony Costello: UCL professor of global health and sustainable development and author of The Social Edge.