International Network for Research on Inequalities in Child Health (INRICH)
November 6 & 7, 2009 Workshop
Objectives & agenda
Specific objectives for the November workshop:
1. To update INRICH members on progress since the Montreal Workshop & the June conference with particular reference to the appointment of new coordinators, the systematic review and collaborative work
2. To provide a forum for those INRICH members who did not participate in the June conference to briefly present their current research – brief outlines/power points to be pre-circulated to participants
3. To build on discussions at the 1st Workshop and further examine research into pathways to child inequalities with a view to informing future collaborative projects
4. To agree the outline and main research questions for a collaborative project
5. To agree a strategy for involvement of post-doctoral and doctoral students in the Network and prepare a framework for student exchanges
6. To discuss health and social policies necessary for the promotion of child health equity
7. To agree a strategy for building links with policy makers
8. To identify further potential network members
9. To discuss plans for INRICH programme over the next year
Proposed agenda for November Workshop:
Friday 6th November:
8:00 – 9:00: Arrival and registration
9:00-10:30: 1st Workshop session Chair: Clare Blackburn
1. Introductions & apologies [15 minutes]
2. Update on progress [15 minutes] – Louise, Nick,
3. Brief presentations of current research [5 minutes each – 60-75 minutes total]
10:30-10:45: Coffee/juice break
10:45-12:00:
4. Systematic review of early poverty and child health inequalities: report of further work with discussion [45 minutes] – Nick Spencer/Louise Séguin
5. Suggestions for new network members [15 minutes]
12:00-13:15: Lunch
13:15-17:30: 2nd Workshop Session: Pathways to child health inequalities Chair: Louise Seguin
13:15-14:15: Intergenerational pathways to child health inequalities – what do we know and what do we need to find out? Nick Spencer & Rob Kahn [to be agreed (tba)] - Discussion
14:15-14:45: Are there critical periods for children’s health their experience of poverty and poor social circumstances? Louise Seguin & Nick Spencer
Discussion
14:45-15:15: Hierarchical organization among preschoolers… Tom Boyce
15:15-15:30 Coffee/juice break
15:30-16:15: Poverty and childhood disability: cause or consequence? Clare Blackburn, Nick Spencer & Janet Read
16:15-17:30: Discussion with a focus on informing future collaborative work
Dinner.
Saturday 7th November
8:30-12:00 3rd Workshop Session: Promoting child health equity through health and social policy Chair: Nick Spencer
8:30-8:45: Introduction to the day with a brief summary of the previous day discussions
8:45- 9:30: Child health and well being in rich nations: the role of income inequality. Kate Pickett
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9:30-10:15 Jody Heyman …
10:15-10:45 Coffee/juice break
10:45-11:30: What works in reducing child health inequalities? Helen Roberts. ???? Discussion
11:30-12:15: Discussion with a focus on international comparative research and links with policy makers
12:15- 13:30: Lunch
13:30-17:00: 4th Workshop session: Future work Chairs: Louise Seguin and Nick Spencer
13:30-15:00: Discussion on research questions & outline of collaborative project
15:00-15:30: Coffee
15:30-17:00: Discussion of further work of INRICH including future programme, involvement of students and links with policy makers
17:00: Close of Workshop
19:00: Optional visit to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Strafford-upon-Avon
Reminder of overall INRICH objectives:
1. To bring together international researchers who are active in the area of child health inequalities
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To ensure that, in the future, child health inequalities have a higher profile in health inequalities research
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To summarise and clarify the current state of knowledge about child health and social inequalities
4. To promote and initiate research into pathways and mechanisms of child social and health inequalities
5. To promote and initiate research into trends in child health equity and mechanisms by which equity can be achieved.
6. To promote and initiate research into policy approaches to achieving child health equity
Reminder of Future vision:
• We envisage that the network will become a valued & productive forum for active researchers in the field
• Within 2 years, we will have identified the key researchers in this field and recruited the majority to the network
• We envisage that the network will be a platform for knowledge synthesis and systematic reviews bringing together evidence related to child health inequalities, equity and policy
• Within 2 years, we will have completed and published the systematic review
• We envisage that the network will be a platform for collaborative studies
• Within 2 years, we will have prepared & submitted at least one collaborative project in addition to the systematic review
• We envisage that the network will play an important role in knowledge transfer to policy makers
• To have made links with & started discussions with policy makers with a view to knowledge transfer
NRICH – November ber 6 & 7 Meeting – page 1/3