Keynote session: Why the housing crisis is also a public health emergency
Focusing on key health determinants like mental wellbeing, housing, and physical activity, Ruth Glassborow – Director of Population Health and Wellbeing at Public Health Scotland, will share insights on using public health data to drive change.
Ruth brings extensive knowledge and experience of effecting change through both influencing national policy and translating policy priorities into national change programmes that deliver meaningful sustained improvement across public services.
As Director of Population Health and Wellbeing at Public Health Scotland, Ruth provides strategic leadership for the translation of public health data, evidence, intelligence and knowledge into effective improvements in both policy and practice with a focus on getting upstream and addressing the wider determinants of health and wellbeing. These include work, mental wellbeing, health harming commodities, housing, diet and physical activity.
In her previous role as Director of Improvement at Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Ruth provided strategic leadership for the development and delivery of a range national programmes and approaches that enabled the application of quality improvement and large scale system redesign methodology to key health and social care system change priorities.
Ruth has a Masters in Public Administration from Warwick Business School and a Masters in Leadership (Quality Improvement) from Ashridge Business School. She is also a Health Foundation Generation Q fellow, a Health Foundation Sciana fellow and a qualified executive coach.
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