Alice Wiseman
@AliceWiseman11
Director of Public Health for Gateshead and Newcastle. Passionate about improving health and reducing inequalities. All views are my own. (she/her).
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06-12-2017 14:43:54
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Hear Alice Wiseman explain what the issues are, and what central #Government could do to support local efforts to improve access to affordable, healthier options.
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The Food Programme
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📻Listen to our Vice President Alice Wiseman talk to Sheila Dillon The Food Programme about childhood obesity⬇️
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Alice Wiseman also talked about the evidence from our NIHR School for Public Health Research funded evaluation of the TfL #adban lead by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…
Amazing work being done by local authorities to tackle advertising environment
See also Adfree Cities & Obesity Health Alliance & Children's Food Campaign
Great to hear about how #WholeSystemsApproaches are being used to address the obesity & inequalities challenge facing our communities on The Food Programme 📻
Alice Wiseman talked about our evidence on Gateshead’s effective planning policy.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
🎙️Listen to our last podcast with Nason Maani🎙️
We discussed his latest paper that unearths how Public Health England corresponded and worked with the alcohol industry body The Portman Group during a purported health campaign.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alc…
Join us at the next FPH Distinguished Lecture on #FuturePublicHealth with Linda Bauld, Kevin Fenton, Prof. Tracy Daszkiewicz, Alice Wiseman, Abdul Razaq, Tim Allison & Alice Kadri to discuss the importance of commercial determinants of health.
Register here ➡️ fph.org.uk/events-courses…
'We need to make binge-drinking as socially unacceptable as smoking. Alcoholism tears apart families, ends friendships, ruins lives and kills people. There is something very, very wrong here.'
Gary Nunn 🏳️🌈🚴🏼🇬🇧🇦🇺 on children drinking and the rise in alcohol harm.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
'...We can take action on council-owned land and properties, but we do not have the ability to take actions in other places... We are limited in what we can do at the moment about protecting people from this type of advertising and exposure.'Alice Wiseman Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) Vice President
And to Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) for endorsing and Alice Wiseman for speaking today Commercial Determinants Research Group at LSHTM for supporting and Mark Petticrew May van Schalkwyk for chairing as well as thanks to Alice Kadri Stefanie Gissing for supporting the event esp Q&A
Deaths from alcohol are rising, especially among women, but few are aware of how damaging it can be. Sue Taylor our Head of Alcohol Policy discusses shocking ONS alcohol deaths figures & minimum unit price on BBC Newcastle BBC North East
bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h…
Another great day joining 3DadsWalking across #newcastle & #gateshead . Public Health teams from NewcastleCityCouncil & Gateshead Council led by Alice Wiseman walked too!
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#MentalHealthMatters
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