Civic and Community Engagement Report 2021 - 2024

"The core vision of UCC's School of Public Health is to be at the heart of society’s organised efforts to prevent disease and to protect and promote the health and wellbeing of the population. This vision is realised through research and teaching and through civic and community engagement, including collaborative work addressing the societal and health service, related determinants of health and wellbeing at national and local level in partnership with government departments, local government, statutory agencies, the voluntary sector, community groups and individuals. UCC regards civic and community engagement as part of the life blood of our University. It happens 
at all scales, and at all levels - from individual staff or student actions, to school, college or curriculum level projects and right through to University-wide initiatives.

Civic participation is absolutely integral to the work of the School of Public Health. It informs and energises our research and teaching agenda and helps ensure that our work remains grounded in the ever-changing issues and challenges to health and wellbeing that arise in our local community and wider society. 

As a former Head of School, I am very proud of the School's contribution to civic and community engagement and deeply grateful to colleagues in the School who have forged deep and productive partnerships with a wide range of local and national stakeholders, working on their own initiative and often taking on significant additional work and travel commitments.

This report seeks to document the School of Public Health's contribution to civic and community engagement, both to acknowledge and celebrate achievements to date and to set out a challenging agenda for the future, commensurate with the challenges to health and wellbeing that we face in the 21st century."

Professor Ivan Perry, former Head of School, School of Public Health