About this event
- Date and time Tue 9 May 2023 from 10:30am to 4:30pm
- Location Online
- Organised by Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Public Health, Royal Society for Public Health
You are invited to join this live stream for an essential update on poverty and the cost of living crisis. This key population and health inequalities conference will highlight the current crisis in the UK and raise awareness about evidence-based interventions that can be implemented to tackle poverty and its effects.
We’ll be exploring how the crisis is affecting public health across the UK and hearing stories of the lived experiences of those who have been impacted. We will then delve into possible approaches and solutions that may be implemented to help priority areas such as child poverty, housing, and fuel. Finally, we will finish the day by summarising the key issues raised and offering the next steps forward to tackle these issues.
By attending, you will:
- Learn about the current trends across the UK
- Understand the evidence on impacts of poverty on health
- Understand what it is like to live in poverty in the UK through hearing a lived experience
- Gain awareness of the interventions that can reduce poverty and minimise its impact
- Explore examples of good practice presented through case studies
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This live stream is available for on-demand viewing. The live stream recording will be available for registered delegates up to 60 days after the session broadcast via Zoom. The link will be sent 24 hours after the event takes place.
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Agenda
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Welcome and introduction
Professor Kevin Fenton CBE, President, Faculty of Public Health
William Roberts, Chief Executive, Royal Society of Public Health
Professor Jim McManus, President, Association of Directors of Public Health
Professor Maggie Rae, President, Epidemiology and Public Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine
Opening presentation
Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Director, University College London Institute of Health Equity
Question and answers
Poverty in the UK
Chair: Professor Paul Roderick, Emeritus Professor of Public Health, University of Southampton
Mrs Helena Robinson,
Professor Gerry McCartney, Professor of Wellbeing Economy, University of Glasgow
Mrs Catherine Parker, Consultant in Public Health, Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Louisa Petchey, Public Health Wales
Question and answers
Lived experience of poverty in 2023
Rachel Bull, Head of Policy and Research, Trussell Trust
Break
Panel - tackling poverty across the UK
Chair: Dr Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard,
Susan E Mechan, Solicitor and Council Member, Epidemiology and Public Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine
Professor Jim McManus
Isobel Braithwaite, Public Health Registrar and National Institute for Health and Care Research Doctoral Fellow
Mr Philip Satherley, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, Royal Society for Public Health
Alistair Cooper,
Voting on statement
Break
Panel and audience Q&A
Chair: Professor Maggie Rae
Dr Emeka Chuks Okonji, Cancer Research UK Clinical Research Fellowand PhD Student, University of Cambridge
Professor Jim McManus
Dr Catherine Guy, Public Health Registrar, Hartlepool Borough Council
Dr Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard
Chris Thomas, Head, Commission on Health and Prosperity, Institute for Public Policy Research
Closing address
Professor Kevin Fenton CBE
Dr Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard
Professor Jim McManus
Professor Maggie Rae
Close of meeting
Location
Online
Registration for this event will close at 9:30am on Tuesday 9 May 2023. Late registrations will not be accepted.
The agenda is subject to change at any time.
If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenter’s and RSM's discretion.
All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.
This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels.