'The Five Clues' - FPH Q&A with Professor Anthony Kessel Could you please tell us a bit about your professional background and how this has led to you working on this series…betterhealthforall.org

The ‘Three Principles’ Understanding of How the Mind Works: An Overview Background The Three Principles is an understanding of how the mind works, and thereby an understanding of how we experience life — moment by moment and day by day. This understanding of how the mind works describes three fundamental…

An overview — Background The Three Principles is an understanding of how the mind works, and thereby an understanding of how we experience life — moment by moment and day by day. This understanding of how the mind works describes three fundamental elements or ‘principles’ — thought, consciousness and mind — and how these…

About Anthony Kessel Professor Anthony Kessel is a public health physician, academic and author. Since 2019 Anthony has been working as Clinical Director (National Clinical Policy) at NHS England & Improvement. Prior to this, Anthony worked for a decade as Director of Global Public Health at Public Health England and…

Blogs | The Society of Authors Author and physician Anthony Kessel on uncertainty and coping in the time of Covid As a teenager in the 1980s I read the full set of John Wyndham books. Although I can’t now remember all the details, I can still powerfully recall a recurrent theme. Wyndham liked to explore what happens to human beings — and to the human race — when presented with…

Global Health Experience In her seminal book, Health, Civilization and the State: a history of public health from ancient to modern times, the academic historian, Dorothy Porter, defines public health as “collective action in relation to the health of populations”. Of the many definitions of public health that exist, this…

Global Health Experience — April 2017 “Reculer pour mieux sauter” Over lunch last month in a restaurant in Lahore, a colleague from the Punjab Ministry of Health told a story she’d heard on a recent work trip to Turkey. The fable, as I’ve since researched, is well-known in Turkish folklore and will be familiar…

Security: global, collective, and inner July 2016 “Deep roots are not reached by the frost” [JRR Tolkien] The past month has been an unusual one, by any account. Early on, I finished a novel, Remainder, by Tom McCarthy, in which the protagonist is hit on the head by falling scaffolding…

The problem with self June 2016 The problem with self “Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune” (C J Jung) I’m not much of a science fiction fan…