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Professor Pekka Puska (M.D., Ph.D., M.Pol.Sc.)
Director, General, National Public Health Institute, Finland |
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Professor Pekka Puska (M.D., Ph.D., M.Pol.Sc.) is the Director General of the National Public Health Institute of Finland (KTL). In this position he has a central role in Finnish public health work and health policy making.
KTL is a comprehensive national public health institute under Ministry of Health in Finland. The institute employs some one thousand persons and covers a broad range of health issues from chronic diseases, nutrition and health behaviours to infectious diseases, vaccination programmes, environmental health and emergency preparedness.
Prior to his present position, Professor Puska served as Director for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the World Health Organization Headquarters in Geneva from 2001 to 2003.
Before joining the WHO, Professor Puska served KTL as Director of the Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion. For 25 years he acted as the Director and Principal Investigator of the North Karelia Project which is widely seen as a model for successful population based prevention of cardiovascular and other non-communicable diseases.
Within 25 years, annual heart disease mortality has experienced about an 80% decline among the working age population.
Professor Puska has been involved in a number of scientific, expert and public health functions internationally. Professor Puska is the Vice-President of the International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI). The association links the national public health institutes of the world and helps countries to establish or develop their institutes to strengthen the national public health infrastructure.
Professor Puska has served as a Member of the National Parliament of Finland, as well as the Elector of the President of the Republic. In addition, he has had numerous major national governmental and nongovernmental positions and assignments in the field of public health.
Professor Puska’s scientific merits include some 500 publications in the fields of epidemiology, preventive medicine, health promotion and public health. He holds degrees in medicine and political science and a PhD in epidemiology and public health. He holds several honorary titles including Honorary Doctorate at St. Andrew's University (Scotland) and Academician of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and has received the WHO's annual Health Education Award in 1990, the WHO Tobacco Free World Award in 1999 and the Nordic Award for Public Health in 2005.
REDFERN ORATION – ‘Global Chronic Disease Prevention - From Science to Effective Programmes and Policies’ |
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Professor Raymond Agius
Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Medicine, The University of Manchester – United Kingdom |
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Raymond Agius is Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Director of the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Manchester Medical School.
He is also an honorary consultant in the Central Manchester and Manchester Children's Hospitals NHS Trust and at South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust. His previous appointments have included being Senior Lecturer in Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of and before that Director of Medical Services at the Institute of Occupational Medicine.
His research interests have ranged widely from occupational to environmental ill health including respiratory and cardiovascular disease, stress and back pain, and audit and quality in the delivery of occupational health services. He has a special interest in education in occupational medicine especially utilising the internet and other innovative approaches.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and of Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of London and an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He serves or has served on several national and international committees, governmental and non-governmental bodies, and is a past president of the British Occupational Hygiene Society.
FERGUSON GLASS ORATION
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