Morning plenary with Professor Sonia Saxena: Integration and innovation for future child health: a perspective from primary care
About this plenary
Theme: Integration and innovation for future child health: a perspective from primary care.
Children are healthier than ever before with major global advances in universal coverage of health care, better public health and reductions in mortality from infectious disease. Yet emerging problems such as rising obesity, declining mental health and increasing health inequalities linking to poverty, food insecurity and reductions in physical activity show how progress has stalled.
Prof Saxena will consider how innovations and integration of the health system between primary and secondary care can protect from major forces that threaten child health including poverty, pollution and pandemics and why we need a future clinical and academic workforce that can shine a light on the interventions needed to improve the health of the population and planet.
The content for this plenary represents the expertise and views of the speakers and does not represent formal College position or policy and is intended to provide an opportunity for informed discussion and shared learning on topics that continue to generate interest and debate.
Abstract presentations
Three of this year’s top scoring abstracts take to the stage in the exciting Pecha Kucha presentation style
- Taking Babies into the Boardroom. ABC Parents does coproduction, education and empowerment
- Improving access to medical work experience through hospital–university collaboration
- A Quality Improvement project to optimise Childhood Immunisations in primary care
Prizes and awards
Visiting Fellows Awards
