"Public health is the science and art of promoting health. It does so based on the understanding that health is a process engaging social, mental, spiritual and physical well being. Public health acts on the knowledge that health is a fundamental resource to the individual, to the community and to society as a whole and must be supported by soundly investing in living conditions that create, maintain and protect health." - Ilona Kickbusch. Good Planets are hard to find, Copenhagen, WHO EURO, Healthy Cities papers, Nr. 5: 1989. p. 13.
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Ilona Kickbusch is regularly asked to address numerous national and regional meetings of Public Health Associations throughout the world and to contribute to the journals of these associations.
Public health honours and awards
Ilona Kickbusch has been awarded a range of public health honours and awards:
- 2021: WHO medal for contribution to the Ottawa Charter and to global health
- 2021: honorary professorship at the Charité, Berlin
- 2019: special award for “outstanding contributions to improving the health of people in the WHO European Region” by the Regional Director Zsuzsanna Jakab.
- 2019: Preis für Gesundheitsökonomie und Gesundheitswissenschaften, Schweiz
- 2005: Honorary doctorate, Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden.
- 2004: Hugh R. Leavell Lecture at the 10th International Congress on Public Health of the World Federation of Public Health Associations.
- 2002: Aventis Pasteur International Award awarded by the Canadian Public Health Association.
- 2001: Andrija Stampar Award and medal for lifelong distinguished service to public health awarded by the Association of European Schools of Public Health (ASPHER).
- 2000: Salomon Neumann Medal for major contributions to social medicine, awarded by the German Society for Social Medicine
- 2000: Special Meritorious Gold Medal Award by the Province of Vienna, Austria for special contributions to the health of the citizens of Vienna.
- She is also an honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, UK and was asked to hold the 1996 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother Lecture, Faculty of Public Health Medicine, U.K.
She served as senior advisor to the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health for the development of the Swiss law on Health promotion and prevention.
She is co-editor and author of the 2008 Swiss National Health Report and senior advisor for the Swiss National Health Report 2015.
She also served on the Core Team for the Swiss Health Report 2020 which investigates the health of the younger generation www.bfs.admin.ch.
She coordinated the work on a new approach to addiction policy which was launched in June 2010: The Challenge of Addiction. Foundations for a Future Oriented Policy on Addiction in Switzerland. This report is available (also in German and French) on the website.
At the European level she advised on the EU health strategy and regularly contributes to the European Health Forum Gastein. At the global level she has advised the World Federation of Public Health Associations in the development of their strategy. A white paper on the future of public health written for the Rockefeller Foundation is available here.
Determinants of health
Ilona Kickbusch is presently
engaged in a project together with the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation
and the Council on Foreign Relation to explore the interface between democracy and health. The results of a series of dialogues will be
presented on occasion of the WHO World Health Assembly in May 2020.
Ilona Kickbusch together with Austin Liu has contributed to a special series of the Lancet on Political Science in Global Health.
The political determinants of health - ten years on. BMJ 2015; 35.h81
She is on the editorial Board of ”Gerechte Gesundheit”
www.gerechte-gesundheit.de
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