National Treasures
'National Treasures' are organisations that offer specialist training opportunities for trainees. These are known as 'national treasures' because the posts are open to trainees from outside the deanery.
Trainees should ensure that the Training Programme Director of the region where the post is based is fully informed of their placement/attachment.
EAST OF ENGLAND
- University of East Anglia
Expertise in Health Technology Assessment and General Public Health, and in Health Protection
- MRC Epidemiology Research Unit
Dr Nick Wareham
njw1004@medschl.ca.ac.uk
EASTERN
- Public Health Genetics Unit
The Public Health Genetics Unit is a national resource funded by the Department of Health and the Wellcome Trust and part of the Cambridge Genetics Knowledge Park . A training programme is available for placements which includes work within the Department of Medical Genetics at Addembrooke's Hospital as an in troduction to clinical and laboratory genetics, and close working within the Unit to a wide range of public health disciplines.
Contact: Hilary Burton 01223 740235 / hilary.burton@srl.cam.ac.uk
SOUTH EAST/Oxford & Wessex
- Wessex Institute for Health Research and Development (WIHRD)
Main focus is on Health Technology Assessment (HTA). Skills include critical appraisal, health economic analyses. Unique opportunity to experience a national R & D programme relevant to the practice of public health. Download detail on Wessex Institute for Health Research and Development [PDF].
Contact: Dr Ruairidh Milne
- HPA Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards
(Chilton, Oxfordshire)
SOUTH EAST CENTRAL
LONDON
- Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections
- Health Protection Agency Chemical Hazards and Poisons Division
- Department for International Development (DFID)
- Imperial College, Small Area Health Statistics
- Institute of Child Health & Great Ormond Street Hospital
- King's Fund
- London Health Observatory
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
- Medical Research Council - Clinical Trials Unit
- Office for National Statistics (ONS)
- UCL - Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology
- UCL - School of Public Policy
- Guy's, King's & St Thomas 's Medical School
- National Clinical Assessment Authority (NCAA)
- St George's Hospital Medical School
- HM Inspectorate of Prisons
- Imperial College School of Medicine
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
SOUTH WEST
- HPA Centre for Emergency Planning and Response
(Porton Down, Wilts)