History and Philosophy of Evidence-Based Health Care: free lectures
Professor Mike Kelly, Director of the Centre for Public Health Excellence, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), will be speaking at two exciting new courses this July.
Professor Kelly will be giving a lecture as part of the History and Philosophy of Evidence-Based Health Care course, entitled 'Translating evidence into recommendations for action: the role of judgement in the appraisal of evidence in medicine and public health'. This lecture is free and open to the general public.
In this lecture Professor Kelly will be drawing on his expertise as a practitioner, a commissioner, and a student of Hume and Kant. He has published on the application of Humean and Kantian principles to Evidence-Based Medicine.
Professor Mike Kelly will also be delivering a lecture and discussion session on 'Development of Strategies with Multiple Stakeholders' as part of the short course in Prevention Strategies for Non-Communicable Diseases.
Professor Kelly is a public health practitioner of considerable note. He has led on the development of all the public health guidance produced by NICE since 2005. He heads the methodological and scientific research programmes which underpin the guidance development.
He will be well known to the public a representative of NICE Public Health in the media, appearing regularly on the Today Programme, BBC Breakfast, Sky and other radio and television media. He has also appeared before Parliamentary Select Committees in both Houses of Parliament as well as having been an expert advisor to the Commons Health Select Committee.
Professor Kelly's research interests are in evidence-based approaches to health improvement, methodological problems in public health research, evidence synthesis, coronary heart disease prevention, chronic illness, disability, physical activity, health inequalities, self and social identity, behaviour change and community involvement in health promotion.He has published in all these areas as well as in health economics, occupational health, the philosophy of the scientific method and the methodology of intervention studies.
Dr Kelly has published more than two hundred papers in medical, social scientific and public health journals and is the author/editor of seven books. In 2010, he was awarded the Alwyn Smith Prize of the Faculty of Public Health for work on cardiovascular disease and alcohol misuse prevention. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2010, and holds honorary positions at the Universities of Cambridge, Sheffield, Manchester, City, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine.
Why Brains Can't Think
A second free lecture will be delivered by Professor Rom Harre, Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College: 'Why Brains Can't Think: Exposing the Mereological Fallacy', on Monday 16th July at 7pm.
Professor Harre has been one of the leaders of the movement to turn psychologists away from basing their researches on the assumption that human behaviour can be understood in terms of causes and their effects, to a study of how people create, understand and manage meanings in accordance with rules, conventions and story-lines.
There are still a few places left on both these courses and registration is now open for the public lecture (Wednesday July 18th 2012 at 7pm). To enquire further or make any bookings please email us: conferences@conted.ox.ac.uk or call +44(0)1865 286945
Published 15 June 2012