Registration is now open for the Medical Journalists’ Association and Health Foundation Symposium 2025: Health inequality, policy and journalism
Top, l-r: Jennifer Dixon, Dave Finch, Tobi Thomas, Emma Wilkinson Bottom, l-r: Sally Gainsbury, Paul Bradshaw, Shaun Lintern
Health secretary Wes Streeting has made it clear that economic growth and the NHS are intertwined, but many questions remain about what that means for huge and growing inequalities. With the disbanding of NHS England to provide more money to the front line, benefits cuts, an increase in the public health grant, the rise in use of weight loss drugs, infectious disease outbreaks and and policy plans to focus more on prevention, inequality is an issue never far from the headlines.
These complex challenges are the focus of our fourth MJA Symposium, which will be held on Friday 25th April in partnership with The Health Foundation and feature some of the UK’s leading policy and journalism experts exploring health inequalities and how we report them. We have a packed agenda of newsworthy speakers bringing you their latest research and policy positions. The UK Health Security Agency, Nuffield Trust and Association of Directors of Public Health will be among those addressing the event. Experts from the Health Foundation will also be sharing their latest findings. We will hear from journalists about their work covering this topic including The Guardian’s Tobi Thomas who will talk about her investigations into disparities in maternity care.
See below for more details of the programme so far. Space will be limited so make sure you book now to secure your place.
Medical Journalists’ Association and Health Foundation Symposium 2025
Health inequality, policy and journalism
9.00 Registration and tea/coffee
9.30 Welcome and opening remarks Emma Wilkinson, Vice Chair MJA
9.40 Welcome to the Health Foundation – remarks from Jennifer Dixon, Chief Executive, Health Foundation
10.00 The economic argument for improving health and reducing inequalities Dave Finch, Assistant Director, The Health Foundation
10.30 ‘A national disgrace’: Investigating maternal inequality Tobi Thomas, Health Inequalities Reporter, The Guardian
11.00 Tea and coffee break
11.30 Should the NHS prioritise care based on inequalities? Sally Gainsbury, Senior Policy Analyst, Nuffield Trust
12.00 Covid-19 put inequalities in the spotlight but has anything really changed? Speaker to be confirmed
12.30 Association of Directors of Public Health
13.00 Lunch
13.45 Parallel workshop sessions
- Using data to uncover inequality, Paul Bradshaw Birmingham City University
- Reframing the debate Health Equals
14.30 Latest research
- UKHSA
- Health Foundation
15.15 Tea/coffee break
15.30 Panel discussion: Individual blame versus societal failure? Chaired by Shaun Lintern, Chair MJA
16.00 Drinks reception
Programme subject to change
The event will take place at the Health Foundation on Friday April 25 at the Health Foundation, 8 Salisbury Square, London, EC4Y 8AP.
Map and directions available here.
REGISTER HERE
MJA Symposium 2025
Please complete the registration form to secure your place. You will also receive a confirmation email. If you don’t receive a confirmation email get in touch so that we can secure your place
With thanks to our awards sponsors DAUK for additional support
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