PHA-Exch> Conference: Closing the Gap in a Generation; Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health

["Claudio Schuftan" <cschuftan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: alex scott-samuel A.Scott-Samuel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

An international two-day global conference on 'Closing the Gap in a Generation; Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health' 6th & 7th November 2008 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminister, London.

The conference aim is to develop action from the recommendations made in the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) report.

The report involved over three years of groundbreaking worldwide collaboration between the WHO, national policy makers and advisors, researchers, and members of civil society. Nine knowledge networks from across the world collected and reviewed the evidence to improve population health and health equity within and between countries.

The conference will be a landmark global event with participation from national and international politicians and policy makers, civil society organisations and leading academics. Invited keynote speakers include the WHO Director General, Dr Margaret Chan; and the English Secretary of State for Health, the Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP. I will also be making a plenary address.

Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London
Chair, Commission on the Social Determinants of Health