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Policy Workshop: Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Public Health Adversity
18 July 2023 at Jesus College, Cambridge
In July 2023, the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge, organised a Policy Workshop in partnership with the Cambridge Public Health Interdisciplinary Research Centre (CPH IRC).
The workshop brought together policy makers (local, regional, and national levels), leading academic experts from the University of Cambridge, as well as other relevant stakeholders, to discuss how academics and policy makers can work together to break intergenerational cycles of public health adversity.
The purpose of the Policy Workshop was to:
- Address key public health policy challenges in this space, such as: How can we break intergenerational cycles of public health adversity to improve population outcomes? How can different sectors work together and with local communities to achieve this?
- Gain insights and collect input to develop a set of recommendations for local, regional or national plans aimed at improving population health.
The Policy Workshop discussion focused on public health in the UK, and covered questions such as:
- Why does evidence not make it into policy? How can we achieve timely communication of public health messages to policy makers and the public?
- How do we establish and maintain efficient and durable engagement between researchers and policy makers in the presence of unstable systems?
- How can communities understand their role in addressing the large inequalities in healthy life expectancy?
- How can we design public health messaging and communications to ensure equitable access to underserved groups?