Time  

Topic  

 Speakers  

9.15-9.30  

Opening remarks 

•  Dr Colette Cunningham (School of Public Health, UCC) 

9.30-11.00 

Health Inequalities Panel 1: A holistic system view  

THEME: What does it mean to leave no-one behind in Ireland? 

• Dr Helen McAvoy (Director of Policy at IPH) 
• Ruth Thompson (Royal College of Nursing)  
• Steve Pitman (Head Of Education & Professional Development, INMO) 
• Dr Zubair Kabir, UCC 

11.00-11.20 

Break  

11.20-12.45

Health Inequalities Panel 2: The political economy of healthcare  

THEME: To what extent are some people being left behind? 

• Prof Ciaran O’Neill (QUB)  
• Dr Sheelah Connolly (ERSI)  
• Dr Julien Mercille (UCD)   
• Joana Caldeira (Safefood)  

12.45-1.30 

Lunch Break 

1.30-3.00  

Health Inequalities Panel 3: Community Perspectives 

THEME: What are the experiences of those left behind in the community? 

• Dr Denise Cahill (Cork Healthy Cities)    
• Biddy McDonagh (Traveller Visibility Group)
• Dr Monica O’Mullane (School of Public Health, UCC) 
• Danny Power, Learning City Belfast

3.00-3.15 

Break

3.15-4.45 

Health Inequalities Panel 4: Mental Health  

THEME: Are those with mental health challenges more at risk of being left behind? 

• Sara Boyce (Mental Health Rights Organiser, Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR))   
• Barry Murray (New Script for Mental Health) 
• Dr Isabela Troya B. (National Suicide Research Foundation and School of Public Health UCC) 
• Eileen Burke (Traveller Visibility Group)

4.45-5.00 

Closing session  

• Dr Brian Turner (Cork University Business School)