Health Inequalities and the Digital Divide
Thrive by Design is hosting a session which forms part of Leeds Digital Festival 2022 to explore the intersectional relationship between health inequalities and digital exclusion from different perspectives of the health and care system.
What we are setting out to explore
Our one-hour session will provide an opportunity to explore the intersectional relationship between health inequalities and digital exclusion and the work taking place locally, across systems and nationally to address the problem.
Join us to unpick work taking place in our host city, Leeds, and hear from colleagues in the voluntary and community sector delivering work to drive positive change but also to understand the challenges they face.
We'll discuss the opportunities that system working presents for spread and scale of initiatives tackling inequality and exclusion, as well as some of the partnerships and work already happening across the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership.
National colleagues will bring all this together with an overview of the future direction of this work and evolving priorities around Core20Plus5 and we'll share some tools that you can use to build inclusion into innovation and service design to mitigate excluding people from your services.
During the session
During the session we hope to help you understand what health inequalities and digital exclusion are, and how our panel members see these impact upon population health in their roles.
Our panel will discuss work already taking place locally, regionally and nationally to help address the problem as well as the current barriers and challenges colleagues on the panel are coming across in their work.
Together we’ll explore the complex and changing context that we are working in, including looking at who is most effected by inequality and exclusion and why, the wider determinants of health and the potential impact of the cost-of-living crisis.
To help make progress in this space our final section will cover how the tech sector can support this agenda, how the healthcare system can support the voluntary and community sector and by looking at changes that we can all make in our own role to drive positive change.
Our speakers
Joining our virtual panel on the day:
Anna Chippindale
Community Project Worker, Healthwatch Leeds.
Anna is a community project worker at Healthwatch Leeds, the organisation feeding the voice of people and communities into health and care decision-making in Leeds.
Healthwatch Leeds authored the People’s Voices Partnership’s Digitising Leeds reports, which looked at the experiences of different communities and people experiencing the greatest health inequalities as the health and care system rapidly went digital in response to the pandemic.
Bola Akinwale
Deputy Director, National Health Inequalities Improvement Programme, NHS England.
More information to follow.
Frederike Garbe
Consultant in Public Health, West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board.
More information to follow.
Raheem Mohammad
Interim Director, Hamara
Raheem Mohammad, Hamara’s Interim Director has worked in the Third sector for the last 10 years. A professional Youth Worker and Qualified Teacher, Raheem is passionate about changing the lives of our future generation.
Initially starting as a volunteer in the organisation, Raheem has worked through the operations of Hamara as a Project Worker, Projects Co-ordinator, Operations Manager to his current role as Interim Director. During his career In Hamara HLC, he has enhanced our Supplementary School to achieve numerous awards with Child Friendly Leeds and Leeds City Council.
Tim Brazier
Managing Director, Thrive by Design
Tim has 10 years experience in co-designing digital systems, platforms and people pathways across health and community sectors.
He is the founder of the Sheffield Design School, specialising in working with public sector organisations to improve the impact of their services, both digital and physical.
Tim’s work on re-designing community spaces through the NHS Widening Digital Participation programme saw Nailsea Town Council transform their services and be runner up in the ‘Digital Council of the Year Digi 100 Awards’.
This session has been CPD certified which means it counts towards attendees continued professional development.
Join us for this virtual event which takes place at 13:00 on Tuesday 20 September by registering today. You can also view the other events taking place as part of Leeds Digital Festival which may be of interest.
