Prof. Michael Depledge
Professor of Environment & Human Health at Peninsula Medical School
Environment & Human Health
Michael was educated at Westfield College, University of London where he gained a First Class Honours degree in Biological Sciences (1975) and a PhD in the toxicology of marine organisms (1978). As a post-doctoral research fellow at the Bromptom Hospital, London he studied lung damage in the severely ill. Later, as a clinical scientist at the Royal Marsden Hospital, he investigated toxicity associated with whole body irradiation and bone marrow transplants used in the treatment of leukaemia (1979-1982). In 1982 he became Lecturer in Physiology at the Medical School of the University of Hong Kong, then in 1987 was appointed to the first Chair of Ecotoxicology in Europe at Odense University, Denmark aged 33. In 1994 he returned to the UK to take up the Chair of Marine Biology and Ecotoxicology at the University of Plymouth. In 1996 he became the first Director of the Plymouth Environmental Research Centre. Michael served as the Chief Scientific Advisor of the UK Government's Environment Agency from September 2002 to September 2006.
"I have worked on the interconnections between the environment and human health for more than 30 years. The OHN network provides an opportunity to interact with colleagues with similar interests allowing us both to raise the profile of our work and to identify major research questions. My particular interests developed while serving as the Chief Scientist of the Environment Agency. They include major threats to health posed by, for example, climate change and chemical mixtures, and major opportunities to use the natural environment to promote health and wellbeing, notably in the form of outdoor physical exercise."
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Cornwall’s Health : From here to uncertaintyNovember 19th, 2009
Cornwall’s Health : From here to uncertainty .
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society Annual Lecture 2009 with Professor Michael Depledge
A thought provoking evening with one of Europe’s leading environmental advisors. Explore the environmental and health challenges faced by Cornwall today and ways in which we can adapt to the future
7.00 pm Monday 30th November 2009 Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Tickets £4.00 from the box office : 01872 262 466
http://www.hallforcornwall.co.uk/
The speaker is Professor of Environment and Human Health at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry. A leading specialist in the impact of the environment on human health and wellbeing, Professor Depledge is a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, Board Member of Natural England, Chairman of the European Commission’s Science Advisory Committee on Environment and Climate Change and a member of the Harvard School of Public Health.
His lecture will cover climate change, demographics and biodiversity and will show how scientists and medical experts in Cornwall will take an international lead role in research in this field which will bring great benefits to the county.
The event will also see the first screening of the Blue Gym video. The Blue Gym is a national project from Natural England being piloted in the South West with the Peninsula College. It is about promoting the mental and physical benefits of physical activity, including active conservation along a healthy coastal and marine environment.
The event will be chaired by Kevin Lavery, Chief Executive of Cornwall Council. Tickets are £4.00 each and the audience will have the opportunity to talk to the speakers on stage after the event. Some of the money from ticket sales will go to the Lord Lieutenant’s Fund For Youth and will help pay travel expenses for local Olympic athletes. The lecture will be podcast.
If you would like to find out more about Michael Depledge please see the Peninsula Medical School Website.
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