Breakfast Briefing - Addressing Health Inequalities in Northern Ireland: The Whole System Approach

CEF is delighted to partner with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and NICON to invite you this breakfast discussion with Professor Sir Michael Marmot.

The recently published Health Inequalities Annual Report for Northern Ireland highlights that inequalities remain amongst the highest in the UK, resulting in poorer life outcomes for some of our citizens. They also place a greater burden on our public services and slow our efforts to support economic growth.  The solutions lie in a cross-government approach, and cannot merely be confined to our health and care services.

In this breakfast session, we invite you to join us in a conversation with leading health equity expert Professor Sir Michael Marmot to hear about the progress of ‘Marmot Places’, where over 50 cities across the UK have embraced the challenge of addressing the social determinants that drive health inequalities.

We will then explore the opportunities to embed the eight Marmot principles into the HSC Reset Plan, in the context of the Programme for Government and the draft Anti-Poverty Strategy.

1. Give every child the best start in life
2. Enable all children, young people and adults to maximise their capabilities and have control over their lives
3. Create fair employment and good work for all
4. Ensure a healthy standard of living for all
5. Create and develop healthy and sustainable places and communities
6. Strengthen the role and impact of ill-health prevention
7. Tackle racism, discrimination and their outcomes
8. Pursue environmental sustainability and health equity together.

Session Chair: Ursula O’Hare, Head of NI, Joseph Rowntree Foundation

• Prof Sir Michael Marmot, Director, Institute of Health Equity, University College London (UCL)

• Dr Joanne McClean, Director of Public Health, Public Health Agency (PHA)
• Judith Gillespie, Chair, Chief Executives’ Forum
• Hashum Mahmood, Senior Policy Adviser - Population Health, NHS Confederation

This session is being run in conjunction with the health and social care systems conference, NICON25 Conference on 15/16 October.  The session is free of charge to CEF members and can be booked here by clicking the REGISTER button.