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Understanding & tackling ethnic inequalities in health

An ESRC Research Seminar Series

University of Sheffield

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Dates
Seminar One
Seminar Two
Seminar Three
Seminar Four
Seminar Five
Seminar Six
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Seminar One: Preliminary Programme

1.30-2.00 Arrival and registration
2.00-2.15 Understanding & tackling ethnic inequalities in health: An introduction to the seminar series
Kiran Nanchahal, LSHTM/Sarah Salway, University of Sheffield
2.15-2.30 The 'Social Origins' of ethnic inequalities in health: An introduction to seminar one
James Nazroo, UCL
2.30-3.00 Presentation 1: Racism and the production of ethnic inequalities in health
Saffron Karlsen, UCL
3.00-3.30 Presentation 2: Health and care issues for ethnic minorities in the inner-city: the case of Bangladeshis in Tower Hamlets
Nilufar Ahmed, Research Fellow, St. George's Hospital Medical School and Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry
3.30-4.00 Presentation 3: Bromley by Bow Centre: An integrated approach to health inequalities
Julia Davis, Bromley-by-Bow Healthy Living Centre
4.00-5.00 Tea & break-out discussion groups

Topic 1: If poor socioeconomic conditions largely explain poor health, is ethnicity irrelevant to the task of improving the health of minority groups?

Topic 2: If poor socioeconomic conditions largely explain poor health, what role should the health sector play in the task of improving the health of minority groups?
5.00-5.15 Discussant 1: Lucinda Platt, University of Essex .
5.15-5.30 Discussant 2: Peter Scott Blackman, The Afiya Trust.
5.30-6.00 Open discussion (Chair: James Nazroo)
6.00 Thanks & close.