School of Health & Wellbeing

Event to mark the retirement of Professor Anna Cooper

date and time

Monday 25 March 2019, 3.30pm - 6pm

venue

Hunterian Museum, Main Building, University Avenue, G12 8QQ

to register

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Professor Anna Cooper will be retiring from the Institute of Health and Wellbeing in the University of Glasgow in February 2019.

Professor Cooper was appointed to the foundation Chair of Learning Disabilities in 1999, and established the Glasgow University Centre for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. She was Deputy Director of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing and is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

She has published extensively on the epidemiology of health and health inequalities in adults with intellectual disabilities, and trials of complex interventions to improve their health. Professor Cooper is Director of the Scottish Learning Disabilities Observatory, funded by the Scottish Government. Established by Professor Cooper in 2015, it is focussed on contributing to a fairer and healthier Scotland through raising awareness of and providing evidence-based solutions to the health inequalities people with intellectual disabilities experience, monitoring and assessing health trends, and translating this into useful intelligence for policy development, use by practitioners, service commissioners, and people with intellectual disabilities and their carers. Professor Cooper recently chaired the NICE Guideline Development Group on mental ill-health and people with intellectual disabilities, published September 2016.

She is firmly committed to reducing inequalities and co-chairs the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences Gender Equality Committee. As Athena Swan Champion, she led the Institute of Health Wellbeing to achieving an Athena Swan Gold Award in 2018 for its actions to address gender inequalities in higher education; one of only 10 Gold awards in the UK. In 2018 Professor Cooper was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours list in recognition of her services to science and medicine. In the same year, she received the prestigious Steven Reiss Research Award from the National Association for the Dually Diagnosed USA, in recognition of her significant scientific contributions toward the understanding and advancement of mental wellness for people with developmental disabilities.

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First published: 23 January 2019