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

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: alex scott-samuel A.Scott-Samuel at liverpool.ac.uk


 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
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