Tackling Inequalities

Director - Health Inequalities at NHS England

Dr Owolabi has particular interests in reducing health inequalities through Integrated Care Models, Service Transformation and using data and insights for Quality Improvement. She has held various leadership roles at local, system and national levels. Until recently, Dr Owolabi was National Specialty Advisor for Older People and Integrated Person Centred Care at NHS England where she led the Anticipatory Care Workstream of the National Ageing Well Programme. She has worked with teams across NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care, as part of the COVID-19 pandemic response. 

Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity

Professor Marmot is the author of The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world and Status Syndrome: how your place on the social gradient directly affects your health. He is also the Advisor to the WHO Director-General, on social determinants of health, in the new WHO Division of Healthier Populations; Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong and co-Director of the of the CUHK Institute of Health Equity. 

How we should deal with inequalities in severe mental illness is a uniquely challenging problem, but it is in everybody’s interests that we address this.

Keynote speeches from leading experts Dr Bola Owolabi and Professor Sir Michael Marmot among packed agenda. 

Inequality shortens lives and severely impacts health outcomes, yet the evidence shows the health gap is widening. Doctors and patient advocates maintain that truly transformational change is possible if we begin to treat inequality as the urgent, serious health issue it is.

The impact of COVID-19 highlighted inequalities in healthcare unlike ever before. Could this mean lasting change for the nation? 

Research shows Scottish government’s progress on reducing NHS waiting time inequality is being reversed due to 2010 austerity measures.