Work and Wellbeing in an Ageing Society | Peatixtag:peatix.com,2011:12021-11-15T08:18:57+08:00PeatixEventsWork and Wellbeing in an Ageing Societytag:peatix.com,2017:event-2453342017-03-22T18:30:00SGT2017-03-22T18:30:00SGTBritish Council in Partnership with Newnham College, University of CambridgePresentsWork and Wellbeing in an Ageing SocietyA British Council 'Knowledge is GREAT' Lecture featuring Professor Dame Carol Black DBE, FRCP, FMedSci, Principal, Newnham College CambridgeAbout the Lecture:Work
and Wellbeing in an Ageing Society
Historically-low birth rates, and increasing life
expectancy, mean that populations around the world are ageing. Society needs the maximum number of
productive years from as many people as possible, as those not working depend
on the others. We need the ratio of
earners and wealth-generators to dependants (children, pensioners, unemployed,
sick) to be as high as possible.
Relying on greater use of energy, machines and robots might well bring
its own problems.
Being sufficiently healthy is a condition for work,
and spending long periods alive but unwell is no fun for anyone. So maximising healthy life as a proportion
of total life is a desirable goal for individuals, society and the
economy.
How do we achieve all this ?
Timings and Location:The lecture will take place at 18.30 on Wednesday 22 March. Location is the Living Room, The Arts House, 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore 179429. Directions can be found here18.00 - Arrival and Registration18.30 - Dame Carol Black to commence lecture19.15 - Question and Answer Session19.30 - Networking Reception20.30 - Event to closeIf you require any further details about this lecture please email: education@britishcouncil.org.sgAbout Dame Carol Black
Professor Dame Carol Black DBE, FRCP, FMedSci is
Principal of Newnham College Cambridge and Expert Adviser on Health and Work to
NHS England and Public Health England. She chairs the Board of Think Ahead, the Government’s new fast-stream
training programme for Mental Health Social Workers, and the RSSB’s Health and
Wellbeing Policy Group. She is a
member of the Welsh Government’s Parliamentary Review of Health and Social Care
in Wales and Bevan Commission on health in Wales, the board of UK Active, Rand
Europe’s Council of Advisers, PwC’s Health Industries Oversight Board, and the
Advisory Board of Step up to Serve. As
Principal of Newnham she is on several committees in Cambridge University, for
example the Advisory Board of the Centre for Science and Public Policy, and is
one of the Deputy Vice-Chancellors.
In November 2011 when National Director for Health
and Work she completed as Co-Chair an independent review for the UK Government
of sickness absence in Britain. The
recommendations of this report are now being put in place, with for example a
national Fit for Work Service. She is
now finishing a further independent review for the Government, of employment
outcomes of addiction to drugs or alcohol, or obesity, and the benefits
system.
Professor Black is a past-President of the Royal
College of Physicians, of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, and of the
British Lung Foundation, and past-Chair of the Nuffield Trust for health policy.
The Centre she established at the Royal Free Hospital in London is
internationally renowned for research and treatment of connective tissue
diseases such as scleroderma. She is a Trustee of the
National Portrait Gallery, of the Work Foundation, and of Uppingham
School.
In February 2016 Dame Carol enjoyed the experience
of being interviewed on BBC Radio’s Desert
Island Discs.