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November 2012For immediate release

Forty years of Health Education and Health Promotion celebrated at

Leeds Met

A celebratory event will take place at Leeds Metropolitan Universitys Rose

Bowl on Wednesday 28 November to mark the 40th anniversary of Health

Education and Health Promotion education at the University.

Since the inception of Health Education training in 1972, Leeds Met has been

at the forefront of teaching in this area, with its provision being influential in

developing the modern public health workforce both in the UK and in

developing countries.

The Universitys Centre for Health Promotion Research continues to be a

major player in dedicated health promotion research, with current projects

including a systematic review of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of

peer interventions in prison and an evaluation of the Department of Health's

Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund.

Rachael Dixey, Professor of Health Promotion, said: Leeds Metropolitan has

been put on the map as a centre of excellence, as it has been at the forefront

of health promotion for so long. We have made a major contribution to the

theory and practice of health promotion, which in turn has had a big impact on

peoples health. Through ourstudents and our books and papers, those going

on to work in health promotion are the people who develop strategies for

healthier living: to control HIV, immunise children, prevent obesity, and all

those other measures which keep people healthier for longer. We are still

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thriving, still at the forefront and still have a huge commitment to tackling

health inequalities.

The event will include presentations from leading health promotion academics

Professor Sylvia Tilford, Professor Rachael Dixey and Professor Jane South

and will be attended by practitioners, commissioners and academics with an

interest in the developments in health promotion as well as alumni, friends

and former staff of Leeds Met.

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For further details please contact Carrie Braithwaite in the Communications

team at Leeds Met on 0113 812 3022 or email c.braithwaite@leedsmet.ac.uk

Notes for editors:

Leeds Metropolitan University has over 27,000 students and around

2,800 staff.

The Vice Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University is Professor

Susan Price and the Chair of the Board is Lord Woolmer of Leeds.

Leeds Metropolitans four faculties are: Arts, Environment and

Technology, Business & Law, Health and Social Sciences, and

Carnegie.

The Destination of Leavers in Higher Education (DLHE) showed that

the proportion of Leeds Metropolitan 2010/11 graduates in work, further

study or both six months after leaving university was 91.87%.

Libraries and Learning Innovation at Leeds Metropolitan was awarded

the CSE standard for the tenth year running in 2012.

In 2012, Leeds Metropolitan was awarded a First in the People &

Planet Green League, a league table of environmentally friendly

universities, for the sixth consecutive year.

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