What is the role of governments in tracking their populations’ health and how can we support them?

You can now watch the full event or zoom into a particular speaker for their recorded presentations by clicking on their names below.

• Prof Mark Lawler, of Queen’s University Belfast and Co-Chair of the European Cancer Organisation’s Special Focussed Network on Covid-19 and cancer and scientific lead of DATA-CAN

• Dr Clare Walton, Head of research and drug access at the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (MSIF)

• Alastair Kent, President of EGAN, the Patients Network for Medical Research and Health and former Executive Director of Genetic Alliance UK

On Tuesday 20 October, we held our second live event of the month – a 60-minute webinar with three prominent keynote speakers.

With more than 30 live participants tuning in and driving a lively discussion following our expert speaker presentations, the audience were able to:

• Better understand the potential role of governments in tracking their populations’ health

• Better understand the potential influence and role of patient organisations in supporting large-scale health data initiatives in respect to their nations’ populations

• Feel inspired to undertake more data-driven activities, whether community surveys to inform their own organisation’s efforts or to influence the practice of others (government policy, health service delivery etc.)