The Academy of Medical Sciences has today published its report of a workshop exploring aspirations for, and drivers of, the population’s health over the coming decades.
The Academy’s ‘Health of the Public in 2040’ working group project aims to help secure future wellbeing by better understanding the factors which will affect the public’s future health and how they might be influenced to deliver the outcomes we desire. In November 2014, to coincide with the launch of this project, the Academy held a day-long workshop, chaired by Professor Dame Anne Johnson DBE FMedSci. This brought together a diverse, interdisciplinary mix of stakeholders to explore aspirations for the desired state of the nation’s health in 2040, and key drivers of change.
A report summarising the workshop discussion has now been published. This will be used to inform the working group’s deliberations as the project progresses, alongside the results of a wider public ‘call for input’, due to be published later this week.
For further information about the Academy’s ‘Health of the public in 2040’ project, please contact David Bennett.
Aspirations and drivers of change: a workshop contributing to the ‘Health of the public in 2040’ project