Seeing is Believing: Picturing the Nation's Health
Channel: British Library
Date: 2014-07-22

This event was part of the British Library's Beautiful Science events season 2014. 
Dame Sally Davies (UK Chief Medical Officer) and Sir David Spiegelhalter (Winton Professor for the Public Communication of Risk, Cambridge University) in conversation with Michael Blastland (Broadcaster and author of The Tiger that Isn't)
When it comes to our health, what convinces us to change our unhealthy behaviours? What is the role of graphics and data visualisation in the communication of risk to the public? UK Chief Medical Officer Sally Davies and University of Cambridge Professor and co-author of the Norm Chronicles David Spiegelhalter discuss with Michael Blastland how we perceive risk when it comes to our health. From Florence Nightingale to the work of contemporary public health professionals, explore how picturing health information can reveal hidden meaning and change lives.

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