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Who are you?
Men's Health Forum (MHF) is the only British national organisation looking at a wide range of issues affecting men and boys. Though our office is in London, our 11 staff members work across the whole of England and Wales, mainly co-operating on particular projects with disease-specific and profession-specific organisations.
How did you start?
In 1994, nurses recognised the poor state of men's health and came together to form a special interest group within the Royal College of Nursing. Then, other professionals such as doctors (including current President, Dr Ian Banks) and health journalists (including current Chief Executive Officer, Peter Baker) became interested in the nursing group's work. We became a separate association then an independent charity in 2001. A nurse turned academic, Professor Alan White of Leeds Metropolitan University, remains Chair of the organisation.
What is the MHF's mission?
Our original founders saw that men's health was poor and that people with a range of interests …
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Competing interests None.
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Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
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Editor's note This article is one in a series of occasional articles on key health organisations worldwide. The Journal would be pleased to hear from other organisations, particularly those based outside the UK, which would like to be similarly profiled.