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Speaker: Professor
John Ashton CBE 1
Affiliation: North
West Regional Director of Public Health
Presentation Title: Should
Prostitution be Legalized?
Biography
Professor John Ashton CBE, North West Regional Director
of Public Health and Regional Medical Officer was born in Liverpool in
1947. Educated at Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool, the University
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Medical School and the London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine, he has specialised in psychiatry, general practice,
family planning and reproductive medicine and finally public health.
He worked in Newcastle and Northumberland, Hampshire and London before returning to Liverpool in 1983. For two years he was a Councillor on Hampshire County Council.
John Ashton in well known for his work on planned parenthood and healthy cities and for his personal advocacy for public health. He was a member of the British delegation to Macedonia during the Kosovo emergency and played a prominent role in resolving the fuel dispute.
John holds chairs in the Liverpool Medical School, Liverpool John Moores University, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Manchester Medical School and the Valencia Institute of Public Health in Spain.
He is the author of many scientific papers; articles and chapters in books and of several books including "The New Public Health" which is a standard textbook on public health.
Since 1993 he has held his regional position and has played an active part in developing government policies for public health. He was awarded the CBE in the Millennium New Year's honours list for service to the NHS.
John Ashton lives in Liverpool and has three grown sons.
