New ills for old: modern epidemics in occupational health
ONLINE NOW: An Inaugural Lecture by Professor Keith Palmer. Delivered on Wednesday 10th April 2013 at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton.
Professor Keith Palmer holds an Honorary Chair in Occupational Medicine, the medical discipline concerned with the inter-relation of health and work. Over the discipline's long history, many of industry's worst health risks have been eliminated. Increasingly, however, new and more puzzling epidemics of work-attributed ill-health have surfaced and replaced the old ones. This inaugural lecture will focus on research offering insight into these modern epidemics, the new hazards of working, and options for control and prevention.
Speaker information:
Professor Keith Palmer studied at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and the John Radcliffe Hospital. A former GP and Employment Medical Adviser with the HSE, he completed his specialist training in Occupational Medicine in 1994 and has since held a tenured research post at consultant grade in occupational epidemiology with the MRC Epidemiology Lifecourse Unit in Southampton, as well as being an honorary consultant with the Southampton University NHS Trust and an honorary Chair in Occupational Medicine with the University of Southampton.