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Wales Equality & Diversity in Health & Social Care

North Wales Conference 2009

Engagement, Inclusion, Equity

Tackling Race Equality for the 21st Century

1 December 2009

10:00 -15:30

Optic Technium, St Asaph Business Park, Denbighshire, North Wales

Wales Equality & Diversity in Health & Social Care (WEDHS) is a research and support group that forms part of Clinical Research Collaboration Cymru (CRC Cymru). It aims to deliver, support and encourage high quality research in Wales around the health and social care needs of black and ethnic minorities.

The current portfolio of WEDHS projects is nearing completion and the conference is an opportunity to:

showcase the work of NWREN, the WEDHS north Wales hub
disseminate the key messages that have emerged from research
bring interested parties together to share research ideas and good practice.

The conference is aimed at health & social care practitioners, policy makers, equality managers, academics, researchers, those working in the area of patient, user, public and community engagement as well as individuals interested in ethnic minority health and social care issues.

Conference themes will include:

Engagement, Inclusion & Equity
Race equality in rural areas
Healthcare needs of undocumented migrants
Developing effective engagement with minority ethnic households
Supporting professionals working with cultural diversity

Confirmed speakers:

Dr Philomena de Lima

Director of UHI Centre for Remote and Rural Studies (CRRS), University of the Highlands and Islands

Professor Robert Moore

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool

Professor Charlotte Williams OBE

Professor of Social Justice, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Keele University

To download full details of the conference click here and for a registration form please follow this link.