Public Health Observatories—the key to timely public health intelligence in the new century

One of the proposals in the British Our Healthier Nation public health strategy is that “ . . . in order to strengthen the availability and use of information about health at the local level we will ensure that there is a Public Health Observatory in each . . . region of the country.” These observatories will be closely linked with universities to help bring an academic rigour to their work. Their tasks will be to support local bodies by: The need for such a different approach for the provision of public health intelligence had been identified in the North West of England in 1990 by the establishment of the Liverpool Public Health Observatory within the University of Liverpool Medical School by the Mersey Regional Health Authority.2 As caricatured at the time, the problem of conventional funding of research and intelligence from the universities was seen as being their

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