| Date 21-Jun-2023 to 22-Jun-2023 |
Location Germany |
Format International |
The Robert Koch Colloquium is an annual interdisciplinary lecture series, each year focusing on one specific innovative public health topic, such as Digital Epidemiology (2017), Human Microbiome Research (2018), Burden of Disease (2019) Public Health Surveillance (2021) or Climate Change and Public Health (2022). The theme of this year's Robert Koch Colloquium are Social Inequities in Health.
Dr. Rajesh Tandon, founder of Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) focused on the necessity of participation and community-based research and practice: listening and including communities and thus challenging established methods and the hierarchy of knowledge should be one of the key approaches in inequity research.
Each year, the Robert Koch Institute, Germany’s Public Health Institute, invites leading experts to present and discuss their area of work at the Robert Koch Colloquium. This year’s colloquium focuses on social inequities and their impact on population health. Over two days, a series of lectures address specific aspects of inequities research. A final panel discussion with experts treats the role of Public Health Institutes in addressing health inequities, with a focus on Germany.
Social inequities have been described for a plethora of communicable and non-communicable diseases affecting most countries, including those with well-established healthcare systems. Structural and social barriers to resources such as regular income, education, housing, legal status, or health care, as well as the experience of racism, discrimination, and social deprivation, are closely associated with a higher risk of premature death and lower life expectancy among socially disadvantaged populations. Despite the considerable effort of contemporary social epidemiology to understand the mechanisms and pathways of health inequities, much more needs to be done, including identifying possible points of intervention. Advancements in this field require comprehensive health data based on modern health monitoring and surveillance methods and sound analytical approaches. Participation of communities herein is essential - both in research and in the development and implementation of policies and interventions. Importantly, these issues cannot be understood and addressed at the national level alone - it is essential to include a global health perspective when addressing them in public health research and practice.
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The programme agenda below -
| 21 June 2023 | |
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| 12:00 | Arrival, registration, refreshments for on-site guests |
| 13:00-13:15 | Official start; Welcome and greetings |
| Topic 1 13:15-14:15 |
Theoretical Foundations of Health Inequities Michelle Kelly-Irving (INSERM, France) |
| Topic 2 14:15-15:15 |
Monitoring of Health Inequities Terje Andreas Eikemo (Professor of sociology, leader of CHAIN at NTNU, Editor-in-Chief, Scand J Public Health) |
| 15:15-15:45 | Coffee Break |
| Topic 3 15:45-16:45 |
Migration Health Crisis from a Gender and Intersectional Equity Lens Anuj Kapilashrami (Professor, School of Health and Social Care, University of Essex, UK and PHM, South Asia) |
| Topic 4 16:45-17:45 |
Participation and Community Based Research and Practice Rajesh Tandon (Society for Participatory Research in Asia/PRIA, India) |
| 17:45-19:00 | Reception |
| 22 June 2023 | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Arrival, refreshments for on-site guests |
| 10:00-10:05 | Welcome - Summary Day 1 |
10:05-11:00 |
Health Inequities in Germany – A Research Perspective from the Robert Koch Institute RKI Talk - Claudia Hövener (RKI) |
| Topic 5 11:00-12:00 |
Health Systems, Preparedness, Health Emergencies, Health Inequity, (New) Emerging Diseases TBA (UNAIDS) |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch Break |
14:00- 15:45 |
Panel discussion: Why should Public Health Institutes care about health inequities? Host: Hajo Zeeb
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| 15:45-16:00 | Wrap up |
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