The European Public Health Association (EUPHA) identifies
research, training, policy and practice as the four pillars for all its
work. At a conference organised by the Association of School of Public
Health in the European Region (ASPHER) in May 2016, an interesting
session setting out a vision for these four areas for the coming years was
organised. Josep Figueras and John Middelton outlined the challenges
facing training and policy respectively in this session. They invited us to
think outside the box and in a sense to reinvent public health in the
21st century. In this contribution, I focus on public health practice.
Public health practitioners, who constitute an important part of
EUPHA’s membership, are persons who typically work at the front
line to translate research and policy into meaningful initiatives at
local level.peer-reviewe
