Welcome to CPHIG

CPHIG CONFERENCE: Poverty is the mother of health - really?

Friday 26 November 2010, Holiday Inn, Birmingham Airport

CPHIG is calling for abstracts for examples of good practice for presentation.

Click here for details of the programme, abstract submission and registration

The CPHIG Annual General Meeting will take place during the conference

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.

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

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