Last chance to join exclusive MJA news event

Shabna Begum

The keynote talk at this year’s Medical Journalists’ Association Symposium on Friday 25 April will be given by Shabna Begum, Chief Executive of the Runnymede Trust and Heidi Safia Mirza, Emeritus Professor of Equality Studies in Education at UCL Institute of Education.

They will set out what we get wrong on ethnicity and inequality in the UK and the danger of focusing on a “single story”.

Their speech, based on in-depth research, will include recommendations for Government, policy makers and journalists.

Delegates will also get:

Heidi Safia Mirza

• Agenda-setting talks from Dave Finch, Assistant Director at the Health Foundation, Sally Gainsbury, Senior Policy Analyst at the Nuffield Trust, Greg Fell, President of the Association of Directors of Public Health and Leonora Weil, Deputy Director Health Equity at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
  

• Exclusive presentations on the economic case for tackling inequalities and improving health, whether the NHS should should prioritise care based on socio-economic factors and the first detailed national report from UKHSA disparities in disease and environmental hazards faced by those in the poorest communities
  

• The opportunity to network with journalists and editors from the national, specialist and trade press as well as representatives from health organisations including Cancer Research UK and Health Equals

With the disbanding of NHS England to provide more money for front-line services, benefits cuts, an increase in the public health grant, the rise in use of weight-loss drugs, infectious disease outbreaks and policy plans to focus more on prevention, inequality is an issue never far from the headlines.

We’re delighted to have partnered with the Health Foundation for this year’s event to be held at their building in central London. 

This unique day will provide our members with the knowledge, contacts, and skills to do it justice.  

Delegates will also hear from Tobi Thomas, Health Inequalities Reporter at The Guardian and Madlen Davies, Senior Editor at The Examination about key investigations they have done in maternal health and opioid addiction.

See the full programme here.

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