This award is sponsored by Professor Sarah Stewart Brown and supported by the Public Mental Health Special Interest Group with the aim of encouraging and promoting leadership and innovation in public mental health in the UK.
Who can apply?
Any member of the Faculty of Public Health in good standing, working in the UK, who has played a significant but not necessarily lead role in the development or implementation of an innovative approach to promoting mental health and wellbeing in any setting.
Criteria
Submissions must provide evidence of:
- Development or implementation of an innovative approach to the promotion of mental health and wellbeing (10)1
- Engagement by appropriate stakeholders including service providers, partners and/or community (10)
- The evidence base of justification of the approach (5)
- Potential of reducing health inequalities (5)
- Potential for sustainability (5)
- A sound plan for monitoring and evaluating the innovation (5)
The award recipient will have (10):
- Enabled public health mental health work to flourish and grow - this may be directly or by enabling others to act.
- Demonstrated innovation in the field of public mental health – doing things differently – thinking differently and/or enabling others to do so.
- Shown how their contribution has made a difference to individuals, communities, organisations or to public policy.
1 (N) indicates the score out of 50 given to the different criteria by the judging panel
Exclusions:
- Projects or programmes focussing solely on secondary (screening) or tertiary (rehabilitation) approaches to prevention are not eligible for this award.
Submission
Please submit your proposal in no more than 1000 words, describing how your project meets the criteria for the award. One subsidiary document may be submitted and may be considered in the final decision making. Applications should be submitted to: policy@fph.org.uk
Details of the closing date can be found here.
Presentation
The award is a certificate and a cash prize of £500 to be spent on dissemination of the project, for example travel to a conference, production of a film or report or hospitality for a local meeting.
Announcement
The decision of the adjudication committee will be reported to the FPH Board and announced at the annual awards ceremony.
The award will be announced through the Faculty’s social media channels, including its monthly ebulletin.
About Sarah Stewart Brown
For the last 30 years, Sarah has devoted herself to developing and promoting public mental health in the FPH and in other settings. She chaired the Faculty’s Mental Health Committee from its inception in 2007 to 2015 and before that worked with various Faculty committees including the Mental Health Working Group.
Having studied medicine at the University of Oxford and the Westminster Hospital in London, Sarah worked in the NHS first as a paediatrician and then as a public health doctor. Early in her career she worked in both the Department of Child Health and the Department of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Bristol. Later she was Director of the Health Services Research Unit and Reader in the Department of Public Health at the University of Oxford. From 2003 she was Professor of Public Health at Warwick University where she led research and development in the fields of mental health and wellbeing and taught on public mental health to medical and public health students.
Following her retirement in 2020 and as Emerita Professor, Sarah has continues to support public mental health through coaching, teaching and consultancy. More information can be found here.
