Dr Charles Guest has worked in government and academic public health in Australia and elsewhere, following graduation from Melbourne, Deakin and Harvard Universities. After medical registration in 1980 and clinical practice in Melbourne, he joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, posted to the New York City Department of Health in 1984. Subsequently, he undertook research on chronic disease in Australian Aborigines, communicable disease and environmental health. He is currently a Senior Specialist in Population Health, Australian Capital Territory Government, and Adjunct Professor in the College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Australian National University.
Professor Walter Ricciardi is the Director of the Institute of Hygiene, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome. He graduated from the University of Naples (Medicine and Surgery) in 1984, specialised in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine in 1988 and obtained his MSc (Community Medicine) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1989. Since 1993 he has held a number of key positions including President of the European Public Health Association, and has undertaken work with the World Health Organisation and the European Union. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom and is a Member of the National Board of Medical Examiners, USA.
Dr Ichiro Kawachi is Professor of Social Epidemiology, and Chairman of the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, at the Harvard School of Public Health. Kawachi received his medical degree and Ph.D. (epidemiology) from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of over 400 articles on the social and economic determinants of population health. He was the co-editor (with Lisa Berkman) of the first textbook on Social Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press in 2000. He is also Senior Editor of the Social Epidemiology section of the international journal Social Science and Medicine. He has served as an advisor to the WHO, the World Bank, and the Pan American Health Organization.
Dr Iain Lang is a Consultant in Public Health with NHS Devon Primary Care Trust and a Senior Lecturer in Public Health based at the National Institute for Health Research Peninsula Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (PenCLAHRC), Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Exeter, UK. His practice and research interests are in the health of middle-aged and older people, quality of care, and health service improvement.
Part 1: Assessment 1.1. Scoping public health problems, Gabriele Bammer
1.2. Priorities and ethics, Sian Griffiths, Robyn Martin, and Don Sinclair
1.3. Assessing health needs, John Wright and Ben Cave
1.4. Assessing health impacts, Alex Scott-Samuel, Kate Ardern, and Martin Birley
1.5. Economic assessment, Peter Brambleby
Part 2: Data and Information
2.1. Understanding data, information, and knowledge, Barry Tennison
2.2. Information technology and informatics, Don Detmer
2.3. Qualitative methods, Sara Mallinson, Jennie Popay, and Gareth Williams
2.4. Epidemiological approach and design, Walter Ricciardi and Stefania Boccia
2.5. Inference, causality and interpretation, Iain Lang
2.6. Finding and appraising evidence, Anne Brice, Amanda Burls, and Alison Hill
2.7. Health status, Julian Flowers
2.8. Surveillance, Daniel Sosin and Richard Hopkins
2.9. Investigating clusters, Patrick Saunders, Andrew Kibble, and Amanda Burls
2.10. Health trends: registers, Jem Rashbass and John Newton
Part 3: Direct Action
3.1. Communicable disease epidemics, Sarah O'Brien
3.2. Environmental health risks, Roscoe Taylor and Charles Guest
3.3. Protecting and promoting health in the workplace, Tar-Ching Aw, Stuart Whitaker, and Malcolm Harrington
3.4. Engaging communities in participatory research and action, Meredith Minkler and Charlotte Chang
3.5. Emergency response, Paul Bolton and Frederick Burkle
3.6. Screening, Angela Raffle, Alexandra Barratt, and Muir Gray
3.7. Genetics, Hilary Burton, Alison Stewart
3.8. Health communication, Vish Viswanath
3.9. Public health practice in primary care, Steve Gillam
Part 4: Policy arenas
4.1. Developing healthy public policy, Don Nutbeam
4.2. Translating policy into indicators and targets, John Battersby
4.3. Translating goals, indicators, and targets into public health action, Rebekah Jenkin, Christine Jorm, and Michael Frommer
4.4. Media advocacy for policy influence, Simon Chapman
4.5. Influencing international policy, Tim Lang and Martin Caraher
4.6. Public health in poorer countries, Nicholas Banatvala and Eric Heymann
4.7. Regulation, Lawrence Gostin
Part 5:Health-care systems
5.1. Planning health services, David Lawrence
5.2. Funding and delivering health care, Anna Dixon
5.3. Commissioning health care, Richard Richards
5.4. Using guidance and frameworks, Rubin Minhas, Gene Feder, and Chris Griffiths
5.5. Evaluating health-care systems, Martin McKee, Bernadette Khoshaba, and Marina Karanikolos
5.6. Health-care process and patient experience, Diana Delnoij
5.7. Evaluating health-care technologies, Ruairidh Milne and Andrew Stevens
5.8. Improving equity, Sharon Friel
5.9. Improving quality, Nick Steel, David Melzer, Iain Lang
Part 6: Personal effectiveness
6.1. Developing leadership skills, Fiona Sim
6.2. Effective meetings, Edmund Jessop
6.3. Effective writing, Edmund Jessop
6.4. Working with the media, Alan Maryon-Davis
6.5. Communicating risk., Nick Steel and Charles Guest
6.6. Consultancy in a national strategy, Charles Guest
6.7. Assessing and improving your own professional practice, Caron Grainger
6.8. Activism, Muir Gray
6.9. Innovation, Muir Gray
Part 7: Organizations
7.1. Governance and accountability, Virginia Pearson
7.2. Business planning, Mike Gogarty
7.3. Controlling expenditures, Thomas Rice and Iain Laing
7.4. Partnerships, Julian Elston
7.5. Knowledge transfer, Jeanette Ward, Jeremy Grimshaw, and Martin Eccles
7.6. Health, sustainability, and climate change, David Pencheon, Sonia Roschnik, Paul Cosford
7.7. Workforce, Felix Greaves and Charles Guest
7.8. Effective public health action, Chris Spencer Jones