13 & 14 December 2023 In-person, BMA House, London Driving real-world impact from health research

Time Main programme Parallel Session 1 Parallel Session 2
08:00 - 09:00

REGISTRATION, REFRESHMENTS AND NETWORKING

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09:00 - 09:10

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

Speaker: Kamran Abbasi, Editor in Chief, The BMJ

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09:10 - 09:55

KEYNOTE: Unifying health data in the UK 

Speaker: Cathie Sudlow, Chief Scientist and Deputy Director, Health Data Research UK

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09:55 - 10:45

PANEL DISCUSSION: How does the diabetes research community get people living with diabetes what they need? 

A research funder, a patient, a clinician, a researcher and a policymaker highlight the successes and challenges of bringing treatments, monitoring and cure to patients. What can those working in other disease areas learn from the progress that diabetes care and research have made? How can working across the ecosystem speed up access to the best treatments?

Panellists:

  • Partha Kar, National Specialty Advisor, Diabetes with NHS England
  • Shivani Misra, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Imperial College London
  • Elizabeth Robertson, Director of Research, Diabetes UK
  • More panellists to be confirmed

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10:45 - 11:10

REFRESHMENTS, EXHIBITION AND NETWORKING 

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11:10 - 12:10

SUBMITTED ABSTRACT: Integrating community assets into the changing health ecosystem: new opportunities for tackling health inequalities 

Speakers:

  • Linda Thomson, University College London
  • Helen Chatterjee, University College London

WORKSHOP: AI innovations and Research 

Further information to follow

PANEL DISCUSSION: Unmet need and research priorities for sexual and reproductive health in the workplace

Sexual and reproductive health has been comparatively neglected in funding and research, and no more so than within the context of workplaces. And yet sexual and reproductive health, which spans, is an area of policy that plays a decisive role in promoting equal opportunity in the workplace. This panel brings together expertise from researchers and global organisations to highlight the progress that has been made and the actions needed to bring more attention, investment, research and policy to sexual and reproductive health in workplaces.

Experts will discuss the paucity of research and workplace policies on sexual and reproductive health and rights, and the ways this must be overcome to ensure gender equality globally.

Chair: Jocalyn Clark, International Editor, BMJ

Panellists:

  • Prof Sarah Hawkes, UCL
  • More panellists to be confirmed
12:40 - 13:40

LUNCH, NETWORKING AND EXHBITION 

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13:40 - 14:30

PANEL DISCUSSION: Research Integrity 

How funders, universities and publishers can prevent fraud and bad practice without putting the brakes on research

Chair: Helen Macdonald, Clinical Editor, The BMJ

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14:30 - 15:30

SUBMITTED ABSTRACT: Public health research with gang-involved vulnerable young people; how to improve diversity and representation? 

Speaker: 

  • Rhiannon Barker, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

WORKSHOP: Data innovation

Further information to follow

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15:30 - 16:00

REFRESHMENTS, NETWORKING AND EXHIBITION

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16:00 - 17:00

KEYNOTE: Funding for impact not appearances 

A leader of a major philanthropic organisation or charity with an innovative funding story

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17:10 - 17:15

SUMMARY AND CLOSE

Speaker: Kamran Abbasi, Editor in Chief, The BMJ

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17:30 - 19:30

INFORMAL EVENING RECEPTION

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Time Main programme Parallel Session 1 Parallel Session 2
09:00 - 09:30

REGISTRATION, REFRESHMENTS AND NETWORKING

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09:30 - 09:40

WELCOME AND RECAP

Speaker: Kamran Abbasi, Editor in Chief, The BMJ

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09:40 - 10:10

KEYNOTE: Challenges and opportunities for working with policy: Making change happen

Speaker: Lucy Chappell, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department of Health and Social Care

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10:10 - 10:40

REFRESHMENTS, EXHIBITION AND NETWORKING 

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10:45 - 11:15

PANEL DISCUSSION: To be confirmed

SUBMITTED ABSTRACT: Aarogyam community development and impact of whole person care on people with long-terms illnesses: a community-led intervention 

Speaker:

WORKSHOP: To be confirmed

11:15 - 11:45

PANEL DISCUSSION: To be confirmed

SUBMITTED ABSTRACT: Deliberative dialogues in research funding; addressing complexity and building collaboration 

Speakers:

  • Anna Ramsay, Senior Research Programmes Lead, Health Foundation’s REAL Centre (Research and Economic Analysis for the Long term)
  • Shaun Leamon, Research Manager, The Health Foundation

WORKSHOP: To be confirmed

11:45 - 12:15

PANEL DISCUSSION: To be confirmed

SUBMITTED ABSTRACT: Co-creating knowledge partnerships with racially minoritized & marginalised communities/groups 

Speaker:

SUBMITTED ABSTRACT: Embedding inclusive practice in the work of a grant-making organisation

Lessons from the inclusion panel

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12:15 - 13:15

LUNCH, NETWORKING AND EXHIBITION 

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13:20 - 13:50

ROUND TABLE: Patient engagement and designing research questions – who gets to do it?

One of the reasons that it is rare for policy priorities and medical research to align clearly is that the research agenda (what research questions get asked and therefore answered) is tightly controlled by scientists.

  • How do we make sure more research is more used and useful?
  • How do we make sure the patient and citizen can have a say in how their taxes are spent on research.

SUBMITTED ABSTRACT: The Beacon Academy: Creating clinical academic excellence through widening access.

A review of successful academic clinical internships for under-represented students.

Speakers:

  • Charlotte Simms, University of Warwick
  • Chloe Berg, University of Warwick

NETWORKING: Meet the Funders and meet the Editor 

BMJ are inviting representatives of UK funding bodies and their own editors in chief from accross our journals to make themselves availbale to delegates for short, individual questions. This session gives participants an opportunity to ask the decision maker direct questions about how to best approach successful submissions – whether for funding or publication. A list of participants and further details of how to participate will be published before the event.

13:50 - 14:20

ROUND TABLE CONTINUED

SUBMITTED ABSTRACT: Deliberative dialogues in research funding; addressing complexity and building collaboration

Speakers:

  • Anna Ramsay, The Health Foundation
  • Shaun Leamon, The Health Foundation

NETWORKING CONTINUED

14:20 - 14:50

ROUND TABLE CONTINUED

SUBMITTED ABSTRACT: Adopting evidence into clinical practice: Real world impact of antenatal magnesium sulphate for fetal neuroprotection, in England, Scotland and Wales

Speaker:

  • Karen Lyut, Professor in Neonatal Medicine, University of Bristol

NETWORKING CONTINUED

15:00 - 15:45

PANEL DISCUSSION: The BMJ’s Known Unknowns live podcast recording Chaired by Kamran Abbasi

The series looks at what we don’t know about common conditions, and what barriers are in place to finding out.

In this session the editor in chief and his co chairs

  • Who holds the key to unlocking some of the most difficult questions to answer
  • What the role of evidence based medicine and current trial methodology is in the post pandemic, digital first world
  • Examples of answers being found to patient problems and whether epidemiology, public health, implementation science or political lobbying has unlocked the unknown

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15:45 - 16:00

SUMMARY AND CLOSE

Speaker: Kamran Abbasi, Editor in Chief, The BMJ

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