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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

Outsourcing National Health Service surgery to the private sector: waiting time inequality and the making of a two-tier system for hip and knee replacement in England

Sales and regulatory status of fixed dose combination psychotropic drugs in India: a retrospective longitudinal study

Global Burden Disease Estimates for Major Depressive Disorders (MDD): a review of diagnostic instruments used in studies of prevalence

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Unpublished papers

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With the world focused on its ongoing genocide in Gaza, Israel has begun effectively setting the stage to take over the West Bank.

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Public speaking

• How patient choice and marketisation is increasing pro rich bias and gender inequalities: Scotland and England comparison
Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society
Date: 07 December 2023
• Instruments to diagnose depression the studies underpinning Global Burden of Disease estimates. Evidence Based Early Diagnosis 2024: Exploring new diagnostics – big promise, big challenge. University of St Andrews, 30 May 2024.
• Our NHS: waiting lists and waiting times. Church of Scotland, 12 Chapel St, Carlisle CA1 1AJ, 2:30pm, 26 July 2025
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Recent posts

  • Oration for the Edinburgh Medal 2024: Mario Negri Institute
  • 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

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