Centre for Digital Cultures and Innovation Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender

Making health systems work for everybody: breaking down health inequalities through place-based, pathway co-production

Creating spaces where people find support, meet people who recognise their need and can access expert knowledge of what courses of action are locally available is fundamental to ensuring health systems work for everybody. Where these opportunities do not exist, they need to be created through specific forms of collaboration, if longstanding health inequalities are to be overcome.

In this seminar we hear from pathway innovators who have co-created digital and community pathway interventions in the cities of Bristol and Brighton & Hove. These examples demonstrate the starkness and complexity of health inequality, whilst also offering important insight into how local pathway co-creation can build capability and responsiveness. We see how, when sustained over time, pathway co-production and co-design can create cascading empowerment opportunities, supporting an increasing number of people who have endured inequality to take action.

Date: 4:00 – 5:45pm, Wednesday 24th May 2023

Location: M2 Boardroom (Mezzanine Level), 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 0JY

Contact: CORE-DIGITAL@brigthon.ac.uk

m.l.darking@brighton.ac.uk

This is a FREE event but please reserve your place here https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/centre-for-dci as spaces are limited.

Welcome: Professor Daniel Richardson, Consultant in HIV and Sexual Health, University Hospitals Sussex (UHS) NHS Trust, Lawson Unit and Brighton and Hove Sexual Health and Contraception Service (SHAC) 

Common Ambition Bristol: Co-producing care pathways with African and Caribbean heritage communities in Bristol- Aisha-monic Namurach, Common Ambition Bristol Project Co-ordinator, Brigstowe Trust 

Making systems work: how does place-based co-production break down health inequality? – Dr Mary Darking, Principal Lecturer in Social Policy and Innovation, Director @ Centre for Digital Cultures and Innovation, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Brighton 

PrEP2U: Community pathway innovation- Leonardo Buonsenno, Health Promotion Specialist, Terrence Higgins Trust

Responsiveness, equalities and community access to MPox vaccine- Rory Finn, Health Promotion Specialist, Terrence Higgins Trust.

Community and digitally-supported care pathways: sexual health and reproductive care in Zambia – Dr Mary Darking

The University of Brighton is hosting this event as part of its ongoing Access to Care partnership which is supported by its Centre for Digital Media Cultures and Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender. Our community partner is The Terrence Higgins Trust and our NHS anchor organisation is University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust and their specialist HIV services based at the Lawson Unit, where healthcare staff continue to take forward the outstanding achievements of Professor Martin Fisher, working closely with the Martin Fisher Foundation.