Empowering undergraduate students to pioneer public health education: a call for action

Cancer Research UK. Cancer Statistics for the UK, 2018. Available online at: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-statistics-for-the-uk (Last accessed 26 April 2019).

British Heart Foundation. UK Factsheet 2018. Available online at: https://www.bhf.org.uk/-/media/files/research/heart-statistics/bhf-cvd-statistics—uk-factsheet.pdf (last accessed 26 April 2019).

Lyon AK Hothersall EJ Gillam S . Teaching public health in UK medical schools: ‘things have improved: teaching no longer feels like an expensive hobby’. J Public Health (Oxf) 2016;38(3):e309–15.

Gillam S Rodrigues V Myles P . Public health education in UK medical schools-towards consensus. J Public Health (Oxf) 2016;38(3):522–5.

Universities UK . Patterns and Trends in UK Higher Education 2018. Available online at: https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/facts-and-stats/data-and-analysis/Pages/Patterns-and-trends-in-UK-higher-education-2018.aspx (last accessed 31 January 2019).

King JD Brayley J Purwar LE . Medical students are well placed to promote health. Perspect Public Health 2018;138(3):145–6.

Mukundu Nagesh N Chiva Giurca B Lishman S . Innovating undergraduate pathology education through public engagement. Virchows Arch 2018;472(5):853–63.

Chiva Giurca B . Social prescribing student champion scheme: a novel peer-assisted-learning approach to teaching social prescribing and social determinants of health. Educ Prim Care 2018;29(5):307–9.

Citizens Advice. A Very General Practice: How Much Time do GPs Spend on Issues Other than Health? Available online at: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/Global/CitizensAdvice/Publicservicespublications/CitizensAdvice_AVeryGeneralPractice_May2015.pdf (last accessed 31 January 2019).

Polley MFJ Anfilogoff T Carpenter A et al . Making Sense of Social Prescribing. Available online at: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/33145/1/Making-sense-of-social-prescribing-2017-PRINT.pdf (Last accessed 21 January 2019).