Raj Bhopal, Richard Rodger & Paul Laxton, Alison McCallum, Vittal Katikireddi
Wed 21 Oct 2015, 16:00 - 18:15
Payfair Hall, Royal College of Surgeons, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DW

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A celebratory symposium marking the 150th anniversary of the Report on the Sanitary Condition of the City of Edinburgh in 1865 by the first Medical Officer of Health, Sir Henry Littlejohn

How did the City of Edinburgh progress from its Auld Reekie (meaning dirty and smelly) status to being a beacon of medical sciences, with its citizens being amongst the healthiest in Scotland?  What are the lessons from this experience that we can export to other cities and utilise to make Edinburgh an even healthier place?

 

This symposium is a celebration of public health that marks the 150th anniversary of the landmark first report of the first medical officer of health of Edinburgh – Sir Henry Littlejohn. The ‘Report on the Sanitary Condition of the City of Edinburgh’ was published in 1865, 33 years before the creation of The University of Edinburgh Chair of Public Health (1898).  Four years after that the Usher Institute of Public Health opened its doors (1902).

 

This symposium is part-sponsored by the Centenary of Public Health Fund, which was set up in 2002 as part of the Centenary celebrations of the Usher Institute.  The name Usher Institute was out of use from 1988-2015 but The University of Edinburgh has resurrected it this year in the form of the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics. This is an apt year to reflect on the past and future of public health.

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