About this event

  • Date and time Tue 28 Jan 2025 from 8:15am to 6:45pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine

The Royal Society of Medicine and NHS England welcome you to our third Tackling Health Inequalities conference on Tuesday 28 January 2025. 

Building on the success of the two preceding conferences, this year's conference will continue to champion the vital mission of tackling health inequalities and the programme’s strategic Core20PLUS5 approach.

Join us for a comprehensive day of learning, where we will seek to strengthen collaborative efforts across industry, research, and employment sectors, and drive the conversation with a mixture of keynote speeches, fireside chats, breakout room sessions, and guest speakers. We will conclude with a motivational speaker and networking drinks reception. Leave the day inspired to be a catalyst for change in your community and write your pledge to support improving health inequality. 

By attending this event, you will:

  • Gain a deeper understanding of the Core20PLUS5 approach and its practical applications to address healthcare inequalities
  • Learn skills and tools to improve leadership and accountability in health inequality initiatives
  • Gain insights into best practices and innovative projects, with opportunities to share and learn from successful implementations
  • Benefit from opportunities to network with peers and experts, fostering interdisciplinary relationships and collaborative efforts to reduce health inequalities

 

Abstract Competition

Deadline: Sunday 1 December 2024 at 11:59pm (GMT)

The Royal Society of Medicine and NHS England are hosting an abstract competition to showcase work in tackling health inequalities.

Abstract submissions should demonstrate ways in which we can tackle health inequalities, using the following themes:  

  • Good examples of Life Sciences involving communities in product design & development
  • Good examples of employment as a tool for tackling health inequalities.
  • Examples of inclusive research  

Participants are invited to submit their abstracts in PDF format via email to content@rsm.ac.uk Please ensure that authors' names are removed from the abstract before submitting, as judging will be anonymous. 

The top 3 submissions will be invited to give a 10-minute oral presentation at this Tackling Health Inequalities Conference on Tuesday 28 January 2025. The remaining shortlisted submissions will be invited to present a poster at the conference.  

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Tickets

Early Bird pricing available until 16 December 2024.

Member

RSM Fellow RSM Associate RSM Retired Fellow RSM Trainee RSM Student
£108.00 £67.00 £67.00 £67.00 £36.00

Non - Member

Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors Non Healthcare Professional AHP / Nurse / Midwife Trainee Student
£195.00 £164.00 £118.00 £118.00 £62.00

Key speakers

Professor Kevin Fenton

Professor Kevin Fenton CBE

President, Faculty of Public Health

Speaker's biography

Professor Kevin Fenton CBE, President of the Faculty of Public Health, is an internationally recognised expert with over 25 years of experience in public health medicine, infectious disease epidemiology, and health equity. He currently holds dual roles as Regional Director for London in the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities and Regional Director of Public Health for NHS London. Professor Fenton also serves as the government's Chief Advisor for HIV, leading the implementation of the ambitious HIV Action Plan focused on eliminating new transmissions by 2030.

With a career spanning global, national, and local public health leadership, Professor Fenton brings a wealth of knowledge on tackling health inequalities, infectious disease control, the social determinants of health, and urban health. He is dedicated to promoting evidence-based, equitable, and sustainable public health practices.

Professor Maggie Rae

Professor Maggie Rae CBE

President, Epidemiology and Public Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine and Past President, Faculty of Public Health

Speaker's biography

Professor Maggie Rae is former President of the Faculty of Public Health and current President of the RSM Epidemiology and Public Health Section.

A leading public-health expert, she runs the public-health training programme in the South West of England and works on programme development in the region.

She has been working in public health for nearly 40 years and has worked in local, regional and national roles with different national agencies.

Amit Aggarwal

Dr Amit Aggarwal

Executive Director, Medical Affairs and Strategic Partnerships, The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Speaker's biography

Amit Aggarwal has over 14 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry, most recently at LEO Pharma as Medical Director for the UK and Ireland. Prior to that he spent over a decade at Bayer where he held various roles including pharmacovigilance, Global medical affairs, and latterly as Director of Medical Affairs UK for General Medicine.

 

His background is as a medic, spending 5 years working clinically in the NHS, mainly in secondary care. Amit has worked on both innovative and established product launches, spanning a range of therapy areas including oncology, women's health, cardiovascular medicine, dermatology and thrombosis in the UK and globally.

 

Amit holds a MA in Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge, and a MBBS from Guy’s, King’s & St Thomas’ School of Medicine. 

Agenda

View the provisional programme

Registration, tea and coffee

Morning session

Welcome and introduction
Keynote speaker
Keynote speaker

Dr Amit Aggarwal, Executive Director, Medical Affairs and Strategic Partnerships, The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Keynote speaker

Professor Kevin Fenton CBE, President, Faculty of Public Health

Questions and answers
Tea and coffee break

Mid-morning session

Fireside chat: Communities and employment

Chair: To be confirmed

Mr Duleep Allirajah, Chief Executive, the Richmond Group of Charities, Mr Kevin Garrod, Anchor Programme Manager - Local Value Lead, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Abstract presentation session
Questions and answers
Keynote speaker

Professor Maggie Rae CBE, President, Epidemiology and Public Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine and Past President, Faculty of Public Health

Questions and answers
Lunch

Afternoon session

Breakout rooms
Room 1. Case study: Wearable technology

Dr Sadia Khan, Consultant Cardiologist, West Middlesex University Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
National Heart & Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London

Room 2. Industry equity champions
Room 3. CORE20PLUS Connectors
Tea and coffee break

Closing session

Fireside chat: Research

Chair: Professor Gillian Leng CBE, President, Royal Society of Medicine

Professor Lucy Chappell, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department of Health and Social Care and Chief Executive Officer, National Institute for Health and Care Research

Motivational speaker
Closing remarks

Professor Bola Owolabi, Director, National Healthcare Inequalities Team, NHS England

Drinks reception

For all participants

Close of event

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Registration for this event will close on 27 January 2025 at 1:00am. Late registrations will not be accepted. 

The agenda is subject to change at any time.  

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations. 

We are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. This is at the presenter and the RSM’s discretion. 

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels. 

Our partners

This conference is hosted in partnership with NHS England.

If you are interested in becoming a partner for this conference or other activities which are part of our ‘Tackling Inequalities’ initiative, please contact events@rsm.ac.uk