The Samuel T. Orton award for 1974 Presented by the Orton Society to Macdonald Critchley, M.D. Past President, World Federation of Neurology

Tony Wigram has been instrumental in many of the key political developments which have made music therapy the respected and well-organised profession that it is today in the UK. He is currently the Professor and Head of PhD studies in Music Therapy at Aalborg University in Denmark. He is also Head III Music Therapist at Harper House Children's Service, and Research Advisor to Horizon NHS Trust. Past President of both the World Federation of Music Therapy and the European Music Therapy Confederation, and a former Chair of BSMT and APMT, he travels extensively, teaching at universities in Belgium, Italy and Spain. He is a Research Associate of the Faculty of Music, Melbourne University. Helen Loth trained in 1985 and worked on the APMT committee in the late 1980s. She is currently Head Music Therapist at Haringey Healthcare NHS Trust. She is also Chairperson of the Management Board of the British Journal of Music Therapy.

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Round table: The new EUPHA strategy 2020-2025: what are the new skills public health professionals need

European Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/eurpub/ckz185.509 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Round Table ◽

World Federation ◽

Fake News ◽

French Society ◽

Past President ◽

The Public ◽

Public Health Professionals ◽

New Strategy ◽

President Elect

Abstract 2019 is the last full year of the EUPHA strategy 2014-2020: Voicing knowledge. Enhancing capacity. The 2014-2020 strategy has allowed EUPHA to strengthen capacity building throughout Europe and has given our EUPHA sections and EUPHAnxt the visibility they deserve. Voicing knowledge has made big steps forwards with the help of our two presidents: Martin McKee and Natasha Azzopardi Muscat. But society has changed, new threats (fake news) are surfacing, old threats (measles) are coming back and EUPHA and its members need to adapt. In 2018, a working group was installed with representatives from our members, our sections, our Executives and EUPHAnxt to discuss what EUPHA should focus on in the next 5 years. The new strategy has (hopefully) been adopted by all our members in November 2019 (the day before the conference) and is presented here. Next to the new strategy, EUPHA will have to develop a 5-year work plan to describe what needs to be done to achieve this strategy. More importantly, what is expected of the public health network. What skills do they need? How should the training, life-long education be shaped? In this workshop, we will first present the changing environment (McKee), followed by a presentation on our new strategy (Azzopardi Muscat and Nagyova). We will than have a Round Table with representatives of our members and of our partners. Questions to be discussed/answered are: do they have these skills already, how can we move forward, what is missing. Round Table members: Danijela Stimac, Croatian Public Health AssociationYves Charpak, French Society of Public HealthJorid Grimeland, Norwegian Public Health AssociationPasquale Cacciatore, EUPHAnxtWalter Ricciardi, Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, president-elect of the World Federation of Public Health AssociationsKasia Czabanowska, ASPHER immediate past president Key messages Public health will be stronger when we plan collaborative actions. Evidence to policy should focus on actionable recommendations.

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The Mental Health and Social Exclusion European Network

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027//1016-9040.5.3.245 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 245-251 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Luigi Leonori ◽

Manuel Muñoz ◽

Carmelo Vázquez ◽

José J. Vázquez ◽

Mary Fe Bravo ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

European Union ◽

Social Exclusion ◽

Mentally Ill ◽

Outcome Evaluation ◽

World Federation ◽

The European Union ◽

Capital Cities ◽

Homeless Mentally Ill ◽

The Impact

This report concerns the activities developed by the Mental Health and Social Exclusion (MHSE) Network, an initiative supported by the Mental Health Europe (World Federation of Mental Health). We report some data from the preliminary survey done in five capital cities of the European Union (Madrid, Copenhagen, Brussels, Lisbon, and Rome). The main aim of this survey was to investigate, from a mostly qualitative point of view, the causal and supportive factors implicated in the situation of the homeless mentally ill in Europe. The results point out the familial and childhood roots of homelessness, the perceived causes of the situation, the relationships with the support services, and the expectations of future of the homeless mentally ill. The analysis of results has helped to identify the different variables implicated in the social rupture process that influences homelessness in major European cities. The results were used as the basis for the design of a more ambitious current research project about the impact of the medical and psychosocial interventions in the homeless. This project is being developed in 10 capital cities of the European Union with a focus on the program and outcome evaluation of the health and psychosocial services for the disadvantaged.

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