Improving the Health and Wellbeing of Women 2023
Online Conference 16 May 2023, 9:00am - 3:00pm
#igppHWW
9:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair's Welcome Address
Kate Pickett, Professor, University of York
9:40am
Removing the ‘Male By Default’ Approach to Women in Healthcare Research and Data
- Focusing on the impact that the ‘male by default’ approach to research and development has had on women’s health
- Discuss how disaggregation of data can impact health outcomes for women positively when looking at non-communicable diseases
- Analyse the impact that the exclusion of vulnerable groups during testing had on the COVID-19 vaccine trial
Mark Woodward, Senior Professorial Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health
10:00am
Using Digital to Transform Maternity Services in Wales
- The challenges currently facing maternity services in Wales
- How digital can transform maternity services for women and birthing people
- Digital Maternity Cymru’s strategy to implement digital transformation
- Potential challenges to digital transformation and how to overcome them
Anne Watkins, Maternity Clinical Informatics Lead, Digital Health and Care Wales
10:20am
Menstrual Equity and Period Poverty
- The current struggle for achieving menstrual equity for people with periods
- How removing stigma and shame around periods can lead to better health outcomes
- What change can and should look like - inspiration from Scotland and elsewhere
- Menstrual leave and beyond: looking at how providing comprehensive support to people who menstruate in the workplace can have positive results for individuals and workplaces
Rachel Grocott, CEO, Bloody Good Period
10:40am
Question & Answers Session
11:00am
Break & Networking
11:30am
Implementing Women’s Health Hubs via PCNs in Liverpool: A Local Authority and NHS collaboration
- Discuss ways that barriers to healthcare may occur for people and how to reduce these
- Acknowledging that healthcare service experience changes especially when considering gender diversity, race, age, and sexuality
- How best to educate and inform healthcare providers on the ways that different backgrounds and inequalities can relate to health concerns and outcomes
James Woolgar, Advanced Public Health Practitioner (Sexual Health), Liverpool City Council
11:45am
Ensuring Accessible and Empathetic Health Services to Sex Workers
- The journey to collaborative working
- Sexual Health on Call: providing free and confidential sexual health outreach services for sex workers
- Clinic in a Box: providing sexual and physical health screenings in satellite clinics and pop-ups to improve uptake by vulnerable groups
- Upskilling staff on using sensitive and empathetic language to improve confidence of patients doing sex work
Tracy Harris, Head of Communities, Southend City Council, and Kerry Mayers, Consultant Counselling Psychologist, Trauma Alliance in South East Essex (Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust)
12:00pm
Local Government and Public Health Approaches to Women's Health
- Discuss ways that barriers to healthcare may occur for people and how to reduce these
- Acknowledging that healthcare service experience changes especially when considering gender diversity, race, age, and sexuality
- How best to educate and inform healthcare providers on the ways that different backgrounds and inequalities can relate to health concerns and outcomes
James Woolgar, Tracy Harris, & Other Representatives
12:30pm
Endometriosis Action: Driving Change and Access to Care
- Discuss the impact of endometriosis and how 1 in 10 women are affected
- Sharing insights and research from Endometriosis UK’s work to act as a “wake up call” to society - governments, the NHS, and employers
- Providing examples of ways society can adapt to support those affected and take action
- Looking into campaigns and the impact of the Women’s Health Strategy
Emma Cox, CEO, Endometriosis UK
12:45pm
Lunch & Networking
1:40pm
Gender and Health: Exploring challenges and possibilities from within migrant and hard to reach communities
- How NHS services and delivery have exclusion barriers aside from cost for migrant and hard-to-reach groups
- Looking at not only service users but migrants working within the healthcare system and how this may impact their experiences with services
- Building trust and creating structural transformation of existing systems
- Moving outside of traditional biomedical models to support communities
Dr Julie Botticello, Sagal Mohamed, and Estelle-Maria Chambourd, University of East London
2:10pm
How individualised perimenopause and menopause treatments can improve the future health and lives of women
Dr Clair Crockett, Newson Health
2:30pm
The Impact of AI on Women's Health and Rights
- Showcasing innovative ways to incorporate technology and AI to improve care for Women’s health
- Discussing the impacts that AI and technological changes may have on women’s rights and their health
- Looking at opportunities to #BreakTheBias through digital advancement of women-led businesses
- How technology from female-led organisations can be invested in to achieve health equity
Dr Pin Lean Lau, Lecturer, Brunel University London
2:50pm
Question & Answers Session
3:10pm
Chair's Summary and Close