“I TRIED TO SPEAK TO PEOPLE, GOT PASSED AROUND, AND GOT DRUGGED”: A POWERFUL GALLERY

This issue is one for students, with a strong collection of papers on Evidence Based Policy and Practice and Continuing Professional Development. Among other things, we revisit three giants of post-war public health in England: Archie Cochrane, Geoffrey Rose, and Aaron Antonovsky. But to start with the Gallery, a powerful indictment of mental health services for young people with a vivid illustration, which asks questions about how serious we really are about our future citizens.
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An Editorial on syndromic surveillance asks whether, in the contemporary world, where there is more urgency to identify global outbreaks that may have bioterrorist origins, this provides a way forward. In Speaker’s Corner, Potts and Bellows tackle the vexed issue of autism and diet, a topic that …