UKSBM ASM

The UKSBM is delighted to announce that Professor Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology (University College London) will be the opening keynote speaker at this year’s UKSBM annual scientific meeting in Manchester (10-11 December 2012). Prof Michie is internationally recognised for her work in academic, healthcare and policy communities. Her work has contributed important advances to the study of behaviour change in relation to health, furthering our theoretical understanding of behaviour change and how to develop more effective interventions.  Her work develops methods to advance the study of behaviour change e.g. for specifying the content and theoretical underpinning of interventions and for synthesising evidence. This is conducted in the domains of risky and preventive behaviours amongst the general population (e.g. smoking) and professional practice and implementation (e.g. hand hygiene). 

She chairs the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s Special Interest Group in Theories and Techniques of Behaviour Change Interventions. She is co-Director of the UK’s National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training and provides consultancy to the UK Government and to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. She is on NICE’s (National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence) Public Health Interventions Advisory Group, its committee for Behaviour Change and on its Implementation Strategy Group. Her editorial work includes Editor of Implementation Science and Associate Editor of Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

Please note that Sir Michael Marmot is no longer able to deliver his keynote address owing to unforeseen circumstances.

Due to popular demand, the abstract deadline for the 2012 UKSBM Annual Scientific Meeting has been extended to 24 August 2012. To submit your abstracts, please visit the online submissions page.