Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity
NHMRC Health in All Policies Research
NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence
- Health Equity
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Symposium on Policies for Health Equity
Keynote address by Sir Michael Marmot
11th April 2017, 9.00am to 5.00pm
Flinders in the City, 182 Victoria Square, Adelaide
Further details to follow
Sir Michael Marmot will give the keynote address at this important symposium, followed by
presentations on intersectoral action for health equity. Speakers will include Ms Sandy Pitcher, CE
Dept of Environment, Water & Natural Resources, Mr Ross Womersley, CEO SACOSS,
Ms Ruth Ambler, Executive Director Cabinet Office, DPC, Professor Fran Baum, Director, Southgate
Institute for Health, Society & Equity, Flinders University and Associate Professor Elizabeth Harris,
Director, Health Equity Research & Development Unit, University of NSW. The symposium will include
case studies from SA Health in All Policies, demonstrating the experiences of intersectoral action to
promote wellbeing and health equity. More information and a program will follow.
Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, and
President of the World Medical Association. He chairs the Commission on Equity and
Health Inequalities in the Americas, established by WHO’s Pan-American Health
Organization. He was Chair of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of
Health, which produced the report: ‘Closing the Gap in a Generation’. He conducted
the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post 2010 for the British
Government, with its report 'Fair Society, Healthy Lives', and the European Review of
Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide, for WHO Euro and presented
the 2016 Boyer Lecture series: Fair Australia: Social Justice and the Health Gap.
To register your interest in attending please click here
http://events.flinders.edu.au/show/event/policies-for-health-equity-symposium
For further enquiries please contact Dr Helen van Eyk [email protected]