[Alma Mata] FW: IISH Public Seminar, 20 March 07

[Rebecca Hope]

>From: "Jane Johnson" <jane.johnson at ucl.ac.uk>
>Reply-To: iish at ucl.ac.uk
>To: ''IISH Database''<iish at ucl.ac.uk>
>Subject: IISH Public Seminar, 20 March 07
>Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:16:23 -0000
>
>International Institute for  Society and Health
>2006/07 PUBLIC SEMINAR SERIES
>You are invited to attend
>Tuesday 20th March 5.00 pm
>
>Professor Felicia A Huppert
>Professor of Psychology and Fellow of Darwin College
>University of Cambridge
>
>  `Positive mental health:  towards an epidemiology of
>flourishing´
>
>Most research on `mental health´ is concerned with human misery.
>This talk will focus on psychological well-being, which is more than
>the absence of disorder.  It will review recent data and work in
>progress which aims to identify the determinants and consequences
>of positive well-being, from a behavioural, social and biological
>perspective.  The talk will emphasise the value of a life-course
>perspective and the potential for interventions to enhance well-being
>at the population level.  It will be argued that such interventions will
>not only increase average levels of well-being, with resultant benefits
>for both individuals and society, but will also reduce the prevalence
>of common mental and behavioural disorders.  Advances in the
>measurement of subjective well-being, including National Well-being
>Accounts, will improve the ability of future studies to evaluate the
>effectiveness of a new generation of interventions.
>
>Felicia Huppert is Professor of Psychology in the Department of
>Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge and Co-Director of the
>University´s newly established Well-being Institute.  Her principal
>research interest is in the field of well-being across the life-course.
>She is involved in major population studies, including ELSA, MRC
>CFAS and the European Social Survey, and analysis of data from
>the NSHD, much of it in collaboration with colleagues at UCL.  She
>has recently edited an influential multi-disciplinary book entitled "The
>Science of Well-being".
>
>
>
>This seminar will be chaired by Professor Sir Michael Marmot
>
>This seminar will be held at UCL. RSVP seminar attendance by
>16/03/07 (indicating any special needs and for directions to the
>seminar room) Email: iish at ucl.ac.uk  Tel: 020 7679 8249 Drinks &
>snacks at 6pm after the seminar.
>
>You may access an audio recording of past seminars at:
>http://www.ucl.ac.uk/iish/seminars.htm
>
>
>Jane Johnson
>Administrative Assistant
>Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
>1-19 Torrington Place
>London, WC1E 6BT
>
>T: +44(0)20 7679 8249
>www.ucl.ac.uk/capabilityandresilience
>www.ucl.ac.uk/iish
>www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology
>

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