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Welcome to CPHIG

Welcome to the new website of the Child Public Health Special Interest Group (CPHIG). The aims of CPHIG are:

To raise the profile of child public health (CPH) among paediatricians and public health practitioners;

  • To assist in developing public health policy in regard to families and children;
  • To define and develop the training in CPH among the two disciplines;
  • To clarify working practices in CPH and share examples of good practice;
  • To identify topics for child health advocacy by the FPH and RCPCH;
  • To enable better communication between colleagues in the field, in particular by electronic means.
 
News
  The future of CPHIG - proposal for a new organisation to promote Child Public Health
  CPHIG Response to the DH White Paper: Health Lives, Healthy People
 
 
 

CPHIG is a group dedicated to the development of child public health within both Paediatrics and Public Health. It is affiliated to the:

  • British Association of Community Child Health (BACCH)
  • Faculty of Public Health (FPH)
  • Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)

 

Congratulations to Bella Oliver (aged 11) who came up with this drawing when CPHIG was re-designing the logo!

 

Updated 8 July 2011