Social Determinants of Health

Section 1. Life chances


The Individual: Growing into society - Professor Adrian Bonner;


Addressing inequalities in education: parallels with health - Dr Kirstin Kerr, University of Manchester;


Wholistic health and happiness: Social and economic perspectives - Dr Andrew Parnham, Livability;


Nutrition in marginalised groups - Professor Julie Lovegrove, Dr Rosalind Fallaize, University of Reading;


Section 2. Life style challenges;


Alcohol related harm and health inequalities - Dr Katherine Smith, University of Edinburgh, Jon Foster, Katherine Brown, Institute of Alcohol Studies;


Substance use, cognition and equity - Dr Jenny Svanberg, NHS Forth Valley Alcohol and Drug Partnership;


Health and exercise in the community - Dr Naomi Brooks, University of Stirling;


Health and Wellbeing in digital society - Nathan Critchlow, University of Stirling;


Section 3. Social and Community networks;


Building an Inclusive Community: The role that volunteers can play in reaching those on the edges of society - Dr Claire Bonham, The Salvation Army;


Support for people with Learning Disabilities: Promoting an inclusive community - Barbara McIntosh;


Community Wellbeing programmes: What works? - Dr Anne-Marie Bagnall, Leeds Beckett University and UK Cochrane Centre Learn and Teach Faculty;


Identifying actual needs using a Realist Evaluation approach - Dr Jean Hannah, University of Stirling;


Section 4. Education, employment and Housing;


Social Enterprise and the Wellbeing of young people not in education, employment or training (NEETS) - Steve Coles, Spitalfields Trust;


Health and Housing - Dr Katy Hetherington, Neil Hamlet, Public Health Medicine NHS;


Local Authority perspectives on Community Planning and Localism - Joyce Melican, Local Authority Counsellor, and Deputy Mayor of the London Borough of Sutton;


Section 5. Supporting people at the edge of the community


Towards an integrative theory of homelessness and rough sleeping - Dr Nick Maguire, University of Southampton;


Mental Health, Severe and Multiple deprivation - Dr Claire Luscombe, The Salvation Army, University of Kent;


Brain injury and social exclusion - Professor Michael Oddy, Sara da Silva Ramos, Clinical Services for the Disabilities Trust;


What works to improve the health of the multiply excluded? - Dr Nigel Hewett OBE, GP, University College Hospital;


Section 6. The socio political environment


Geo-political aspects of health and wellbeing - Professor Clare Bambra, Dr Kayleigh Garthwaite, and Amy Greer Murphy, University of Durham;


Health and wellbeing of refugees and migrants within a politically-contested environment - Dr Gayle Munro, The Salvation Army;


The Care Act, 2014 - Professor Paul Burstow, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, City University;


Health and Social Care in an Age of Austerity - Dr Charles West, former GP, NHS Information Authority.