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Rugby and rights of the child

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18 December 2020 To: Juliet HarrisDirector, Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights) Dear Juliet The purposes of this email are to introduce myself and to ask for your advice and perhaps collaboration. I am Professor of Public Health at Newcastle…

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Rugby and rights of the child

21 December 202021 December 2020 allysonpollockchildhood injury

18 December 2020 To: Children & Young People’s Commissioner Scotland Dear Children’s Commissioner The purposes of this email are to introduce myself and to ask for your advice and collaboration. I am Professor of Public Health at Newcastle University, and…

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Why I wrote to the government to ask them to remove the tackle from school rugby and put in place injury surveillance

8 March 201610 March 2016 allysonpollockUncategorized

(This blog was first published on Better Health For All (the blog of the Faculty of Public Health) on 08 March 2015) On 2nd March 2016, along with 70 other academics, doctors, and public health professionals, I wrote an open…

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Latest articles and publications

Regulatory enforcement of the marketing of fixed-dose combinations in India: a case study of systemic antibiotics

Essential medicines lists are for high income countries too

Global burden of disease 2017 estimates for major depressive disorder: a critical appraisal of the epidemiological evidence

Areas of interest

Sports injury & injury epidemiology

Regulatory science & pharmaceuticals

Essential medicines

Public inquiries – infected blood and covid-19

NHS reforms

Health and Care Bill 2021-22

PFI & PPPs

Covid-19

Unpublished papers

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Public speaking

• Manifiesto
Wellington Racecourse, Ostend
Date: 09-10 September 2023
• Carolyn Buamah & colleagues. Global Burden of Disease 2020: critical appraisal of estimates of depression. Annual Scientific Meeting, Society for Social Medicine & Population Health
Date: 07 September 2023
• Petra Sevcikova, Rosie Lyus. Global Burden Disease estimates of depression: do they lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment? Preventing Overdiagnosis 2023 International Conference
Date: 15 August 2023
• Rebuild Britain fringe meeting TUC Congress, ACC Liverpool
Date: lunchtime, 12 September 2023
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Recent posts

  • Email to Hugo Keith KC, 30 May 2023
  • As covid continues its tour of Europe, what is the public health evidence for covid passes? 02 December 2021
  • Mandatory vaccination will not make care home residents safe from covid, it is unnecessary, and data underpinning the government’s case is unreliable
  • Health and Care Bill 2021-22
  • Freedom of Information requests to the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, May 2021

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