You are warmly invited to the Inaugural Lecture of?Professor Simon Fraser?in the Faculty of Medicine.
Title: “From individuals to populations – working towards whole-person public health”
Date: Thursday 19 June 2025
Venue: IDS Lecture Theatre, 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 General Hospital / Online
Timing: Lecture from 17:15
About the event
Simon Fraser is Professor of Public Health and Deputy Head of School (Research) in the School of Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education in the Faculty of Medicine, University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载. With many years’ experience practising as a GP before retraining in Public Health, his research focuses on understanding and addressing the determinants, burden, inequalities, and adverse outcomes associated with long-term conditions. He leads an interdisciplinary group investigating the prevention of burdensome multiple long-term conditions (‘multimorbidity’) across the lifecourse, as well as researching frailty, cognitive impairment, medicines optimisation and treatment burden. He has a portfolio of research in chronic kidney disease and acute kidney injury incorporating prevention, health inequalities, health-related quality of life, and improving healthcare pathways. Simon teaches about health care systems on the Masters in Public Health and leads on Evidence Based Medicine and Public Health for the BM4 (graduate-entry medicine) programme.
Synopsis of presentation
With populations ageing and the prevalence of long-term health conditions growing in many parts of the world, health and social care systems are facing unsustainable challenges. Much of Professor Fraser’s research has focused on chronic kidney disease, which exemplifies some of the key issues. ‘Multimorbidity’ – when individuals live with multiple long-term conditions – is also becoming more common. It affects those with least resources earlier in their lifecourse than people living in more affluent circumstances. It has been described as a defining challenge for health systems globally, and this is certainly true for the NHS.
Public Health focuses on populations, with an emphasis on prevention, reducing health inequalities and working across society to improve health and health outcomes. By contrast, and quite rightly, the work of clinicians is concerned primarily with addressing the needs of individual patients. Whole person care has traditionally been at the heart of General Practice in this country. This lecture will explore how bringing together the need for whole person healthcare with a population-level perspective has led me from General Practice to Public Health and has driven my research and teaching.
Register for online event here.
Online registration closes at 15.00 on Wednesday 18 June 2025.?A link to access the online event will be sent to those registered the day before the event.
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