Global Communities, Local Challenges, Partnership Solutions

As part of 2023 Black History Month Birmingham City Council Public Health division is convening a virtual conference  ‘Global Communities, Local Challenges, Partnership Solutions’ across the whole month of October focusing on accelerating our work to tackle ethnic health inequalities and build on our work with Lewisham in the BLACHIR project.

The virtual conference is running throughout October and is free to attend, the Public Health division are also inviting organisations to run virtual and hybrid sessions during the month and to submit posters to celebrate good practice and highlight solution focused work to tackle health inequalities both in Birmingham, the West Midlands and across the UK.

The conference focuses on three priority themes:

• shine the light on issues.

• celebrate and connect with communities.

• share emerging practice and learning

They are keen to hold sessions that reflect the breadth of diversity across ethnic communities and highlight intersectionality, therefore we are looking to support specific sessions in relation to this.

They are keen to have sessions that link to:

• our local ICS strategy clinical priorities:

• circulatory disease

• infant mortality

• respiratory disease

• cancer

• mental health

• our health and wellbeing board strategy priorities:

• physical activity

• food

• mental wellbeing

• healthy ageing

• addictions

This is a great opportunity for organisations to highlight the work that you are doing working with ethnic communities to tackle health inequalities and share some of the partnership solutions that are making a change to people’s lives.

You can register for the virtual conference, submit proposals for webinars and find out more about the poster competition at About the conference | Birmingham Black History Month Health Conference 2023 | Birmingham City Council