Programme Details

 

Using Place as a Lens to Improve Health

28th September 2022, Aberdeen Art Gallery

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This event was hosted by the North East Alliance. The North East Alliance is a collaboration of leaders across the North East of Scotland aiming to deliver change and improve lives.  

 

Programme Overview 

Welcome! 

Where we live and where we spend our time has an important influence on our health and wellbeing. The aim of today is to: build our understanding, share ideas and best practice, and help us move forward with this exciting topic. 

 

10:00 Doors open 

 

10:15 - 10:20 Welcome: Susan Webb, Director of Public Health 

 

10:20 - 10:30 A national view of health and place:  Maree Todd, Minister for Public Health, Women's Health & Sport 

 

10:30 - 11:00 Panel: North East Alliance, Chair: Susan Webb, Director of Public Health, Caroline Hiscox, Chief Executive, NHS Grampian, Fraser Bell, Chief Operating Officer, Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership and Simon Boker-Ingram, Chief Officer, Moray IJB & Moray Portfolio Lead. 

 

11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK 

 

11:30 - 13:00 Plenary Session: Focusing on the Evidence 

  • Focusing in on Health and Place – Hugo van Woerden, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Public Health Directorate, NHS Grampian (15 min) 
  • The Planning System and Health and Wellbeing – Donna Laing, Senior Planner, Local Development Plan Team, Aberdeen City Council (10 min) 
  • Round table discussion of plenary session (15 min) 
  • The URBANOME – Dr Rebecca Rogan, Research Fellow, The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment, Robert Gordon University & Caroline Hood, Lecturer in Sociology, School of Applied Social Studies, Robert Gordon University & Project Lead for URBANOME at Robert Gordon University (10 min) 
  • Creating healthy places with the Place Standard Tool - Anna Gale, Health Improvement Manager, Public Health Scotland (10 min) 
  • Round table discussion of plenary session (15 min) 

 

13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH 

 

14:00 - 15:00 World Café of local initiatives 

The World Café event will feature some nine/ten community initiatives from the Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Moray and Highland areas which have focused on working with the ‘place’ agenda and provide background on their community development, planning and delivery.   

  • First Table discussion (20 min) 
  • Move to Second Table discussion (20 min) 
  • Move to Third Table discussion (20 min) 

Details of presentations can be found here

 

15:00 - 15:15 COFFEE BREAK 

 

15:15 - 15:45 Looking to the future 

 

15:45 - 16:15: Closing Plenary 

  • Health and Place: A Health Geographer Perspective - Professor Sarah-Anne Munoz, Professor of Rural Health, University of the Highlands and Islands (30 min) 

 

16:15 - 16:25: Thanks for attending 

 

Up to 17:00: Chance to view art gallery 

Published: 29/09/2022 09:19