Synopsis

There are real challenges in delivering equitable health care in a community, even when there is policy and service goodwill. This is an issue for health services around the world. For the past ten years BiBBS has been working alongside service partners and families to co-design, implement and evaluate multiple early years interventions that are delivered as a part of usual practice in disadvantaged inner-city areas in the UK.

This talk will share the learning and insights from this unique partnership, key findings from the BiBBS cohort about the adversity faced by families and which interventions ‘work’ to reduce this adversity, before discussing how to shift research and public health policy to create and evaluate an ‘early-years ecosystem’ of effective early-years interventions.

Speaker

Dr Josie Dickerson is the Director of Health Equity and Early Years Research within the “Born in Bradford” team. Josie is PI of the BIBBS interventional birth cohort, and holds a National Institute for Health and Care Research Population Health Research Career Scientist Fellowship which is focussed on evaluating the most effective combinations of preventative early interventions to reduce inequities in child health and development.