This year we are focusing on the urgent need to move beyond ambition and into reality.

The conference follows the publication of a joint statement, issued by CHEX and our colleagues from across the sector, on the role prevention plays in tackling Scotland’s growing health inequalities crisis.

What does it take to make community-led health happen?

We have heard much policy ambition, but finding practical and sustainable solutions to this ‘implementation gap’ is essential. We will be discussing what we need to do to ensure that policy and practice are informed by the knowledge, skills and experience of the people in communities, and those organisations providing support.

Our focus will be on the role that people play in the heart of this work. Those who work within our struggling systems do crucial yet invisible work in and for our communities, not only supporting those in need of help, but catching things before they fall.

Our chair, speaker and listeners

We're excited to announce our Chair for the event will be Brendan Rooney, the newly-retired Executive Director of Healthy N Happy Community Development Trust.

Brendan is a long-time friend of CHEX and you can read his reflections on his decades of work in community development and his hopeful aspirations for the future.

We will also be hearing from Dr David Walsh of Glasgow University on the research about and realities of Scotland's health inequalities, which fundamentally shape the context within which we all work.

As we did last year, we are hosting two keynote listeners and we're pleased to welcome back Ruth Glassborow from Public Health Scotland and new listener Donna McLeod of the Scottish Government's Population Health Directorate.

Our listeners will hear our network’s experiences and insights and work with us to ensure that our collective knowledge and experience is better understood and fed into work at the national level.

Book your place now!

Book your place now!