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Date:
May 2, 2002 (Thursday)
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Venue: K2, Doctors' Common Room, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam
The
Internet changes everything; making knowledge available to everyone
and the public health practitioner has to recognize that the Internet
will change public health as much as it has changed other businesses.
We need to ask:
- how
can public health use the Internet to achieve its objectives?
- how
can public health manage the knowledge the Internet provides?
- what
is the job of the public health professional in an era in which
Mr Gates says the key question for any organization is - what
is the function of the human being in the age of the Internet?
Dr.
Muir Gray is currently Reader in public health at the University
of Oxford. Amongst his many public appointments, he is also Director
of the UK's National electronic Library for Health (NeLH), Director
of the National Screening Committee, and Project manager National
Public Health Network Project. He is a public health professional
who qualified as a medic in Glasgow and who entered public health
after a brief encounter with surgery. He has done most of the public
health jobs and has made most of the mistakes that the specialty
offers. Currently he is:
Director
of the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH)
Director of the National Screening Committee
Project manager National Public Health Network Project
His
main interests at present are
- Using
knowledge management to improve health and healthcare
- Empowering
patients
- The
future of public health
- Evidence,
ethics and economics in decision making
- emedicine
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