The East of England LGA is running a series of free roundtable discussions in 2024 and 2025. These sessions are open to all councils in the East of England and their partner organisations. At the EELGA roundtable, you will hear from a guest speaker on each theme and have an opportunity to learn from, and share your own examples of, best practice, opportunities, and challenges.
This roundtable is an opportunity to learn about the health inequalities that asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants face in our region, and actions being taken in the region to address this challenge.
Professor Margaret Greenfields from Anglia Ruskin University (Prof Margaret Greenfields – ARU) will present the findings from the “Building a pathway to research participation for refugees and asylum seekers” project, which was undertaken in the Cambridge and Peterborough Integrated Care System area. She will then explain how these findings relate to research participation by other excluded groups, as demonstrated by other Research Engagement Network projects, before introducing the “Co-creating asset and place-based approaches to tackling refugee and migrant health exclusion” project that is about to start.
A discussion will then follow on migrant health inequalities and exclusion as well as the potential for developing policy and practice to support future transformative change, knowledge exchange and transferability of results.
Please note: if this session is oversubscribed places will be limited to 2 – 3 people per authority.
If you have any queries please contact Matthew Stewart, Policy and Programmes Manager, East of England LGA, email; matt.stewart@eelga.gov.uk