The 11th Healthier Future Forum took place on Thursday 31 March 2011 at Glasgow Science Centre. Taking the focus of 'a resilient Glasgow', this event presented indicators of progress and drew upon newly developed conceptual models to improve understanding about Glasgow's health. Delegates were encouraged to think about Glasgow's past, its present and its future and what might be the key components of a more resilient city. Includes contributions by TANNAHILL, Professor Carol; WHYTE, Bruce; HANLON, Professor Phil; WRIGHT, Nick.

In the first lecture of this Seminar Series 2014-2015, Phil Hanlon, Professor of Public Health at Glasgow University, delivers a review of the first 10 years of the Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH). GCPH was established 10 years ago to create fresh thinking in the confrontation of Glasgow's intractable public health problems. The Seminar Series has been one of the chief ways in which this fresh thinking has been developed and shared. He discusses what has been learned and the implications of what has been learned for the health of Glasgow. He suggests a large number of themes that matter, for example, history, determinants of health, economy, inner life, transformational change and resilience, ecology. He discusses how these themes have given a fresh perspective on what needs to happen in Glasgow.

It was Plato who first observed that human beings naturally integrate the true, the good and the beautiful. We still observe this in our own lives when we are allowed to do so. Yet, the true (as manifested in the ideologies of scientism and economism) has been elevated in our work and professional lives to a position where 'evidence' and 'cost effectiveness' trumps all other considerations. The result is that we feel brutalised and not 'fully human'.

The first meeting of Glasgow's Healthier Future Forum took place on 15 June 2005 in St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow. The Forum was a half-day, round table event consisting of short inputs influenced by ideas emerging from the Centre's first year of work. Presentations were interspersed with discussion amongst the 160 participants, focusing on the usefulness of the ideas to practice. Includes contributions from: Carol Tannahill, Sir John Arbuthnott, Phil Hanlon, Harry Burns, Andrew Lyon, Jim McCormick and Valerie Millar.