This will be the Final Policy Event for National Health & Medical Research Council funded Australian Health Inequities Program. The aims of the Symposium are to:

1. Present research-based examples of Policies and Programs that were designed to intervene on the social determinants of health inequities
2. Contribute to debates about the ways in which policy makers can build social determinants of health inequities perspectives into programs inside and outside of government
3. Compare progress in the uptake of social determinants of health inequities perspectives in Australia and other countries
4. Consider how social determinants of health can contribute to the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) goal of Closing the Gap.

Confirmed International Speakers:

Professor Sir Michael G. Marmot, Director: International Institute for Society and Health, MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London

Dr David Pevalin is Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Human Sciences at the University of Essex.

Professor Louise Potvin is currently professor at the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de Montreal and Scientific director of the Centre Léa-Roback sur les inégalités sociales de santé de Montréal.

Dr. Wayne Lewchuk is professor of Labour Studies and Economics at McMaster University.

Bridget Robson, Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Kea/Ngati Tuara, is Director of the Eru Pomare Maori Health Research Centre, University of Otago, Wellington.

 

 

The Symposium has been organised by the Australian Health Inequities Program (funded as a Capacity Building Program by the NH&MRC)