Work includes:

• Informing the Commission and stakeholders about evidence and effective interventions to address health inequalities.
• Actively engaging with the academic and research community in London
• Continuing to develop the Commission's Shared Learning for Strategic Partnerships project, focussing initially on the issue of housing and health.

It is chaired by Ian Basnett, Director of Public Health, Tower Hamlets primary care trust.

Organisations represented on this forum include the Department of Health's Inequalities Unit, London Voluntary Services Council and Croydon Primary Care Trust.

Policy support and investment is provided by the GLA.

Seminar series - Spring/ Summer 2007

The time is now - towards a healthier London

This seminar series is designed to bring together academics, policymakers and practitioners to take a radical look at health inequalities and their underlying causes and to propose solutions. The seminars will help shape the LHC's recommendations to the Mayor and will inform the development of the Mayor's Health Inequalities Strategy and how to measure its success.

The first seminar will be held on 30th April 3pm to 5.30pm and is hosted by University of East London at their Docklands Campus. Download a booking form

Speakers include:
Hilary Thomson, MRC Social and Public Research Unit, Glasgow.
‘Economic and neighbourhood regeneration as a healthy investment - a solid foundation?’

Alex Scott Samuel, Liverpool University.
''What are the causes of health inequalities and how could the Mayoral strategy address them?'

read on for more details of the series.....

Previous work:

The forum held its first seminar in November 2005 and considered the following questions:

How confident are we that London's health inequalities gap can be closed?

• What are the priorities for London and members of the LHC?
• How can we measure our progress towards reducing inequalities and meeting our targets?
• and should carbon rationing become the foundation for improving public health?

Read more and download the presentations.