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SUMMARY:Inequalities and the response to COVID-19. What researchers can d
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DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the Institute for Health Policy and Organis
 ation (IHPO) seminar series on 8 June.\n\nRegister your interest on Even
 tbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/157071794967\n\nZoom recording: h
 ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqyzpsLq6vQ\n\nAbstract:\n\nCOVID-19 can 
 disproportionately affect those who are already impacted by social\, eth
 nic and gender inequalities. Existing inequalities map onto increased ex
 posure to risk\, both in their susceptibility to the disease\, the sever
 ity of the illness\, and in the response to treating them\n\n· COVID-19 
 is more likely to affect vulnerable groups\, and is likely to be more se
 vere in many of those cases.\n· Inequalities of access (to treatment and
  to technology) will further heighten the disproportionate impact of COV
 ID-19.\n\nWe must learn from existing evidence and experience\, both to 
 identify those exposed to greater risk and to prioritise research and po
 licy solutions to mitigate these effects.\nWe illustrate this with examp
 les from the work of VOCAL\, creating opportunities for people from all 
 walks of life to find out about\, and have a voice in\, health research 
 in Greater Manchester\n\nFor further background information\, see how in
 equalities are affecting the response to covid-19:\n\nhttp://blog.policy
 .manchester.ac.uk/posts/2020/04/how-inequalities-are-affecting-the-respo
 nse-to-covid-19/\n\n\nBiographies:\n\nProfessor Arpana Verma is Head of 
 the Division of Population Health\, Health Services Research and Primary
  Care. She is Director of Manchester Urban Collaboration on Health (MUCH
 ) a WHO Collaborating Centre and honorary Consultant in Public Health at
  Public Health England.\n\nBella Starling is a Wellcome Trust Engagement
  Fellow and Director of the Public Programmes team at Manchester Univers
 ity NHS Foundation Trust. Her career has spanned neuroscience\, genetics
  and stem cell research\, science writing\, biomedical ethics\, public e
 ngagement\, patient involvement and science policy\, as a practitioner\,
  action researcher\, strategic adviser and funder. She is passionate abo
 ut inclusion in\, and democratisation of\, research\; her Fellowship exp
 lores how public engagement with research acts as a catalyst for social 
 change.
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LOCATION:Zoom\, register on Eventbrite to attend.
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