Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities

Monday 2 November 2020   18:45 to 20:15

Speakers:	Professor Kevin Fenton, Regional Director, PHE London & Regional Director of Public Health, NHS London.
Location:	Virtual Event

Part of the Management in Medicine Programme.

The webinar will cover some background to the pre-existing inequalities which impact on health, as well as a look at some of the subsequent data and community insights, and resulting recommendations for action.

About the speaker:
Before taking up the London regional director role, Kevin held a joint position as Strategic Director of Place and Wellbeing and Director of Public Health (DPH) at London Borough of Southwark, and Senior Advisor, Public Health England.
Professor Fenton was previously PHE’s National Director for Health and Wellbeing and led PHE’s national prevention programmes including screening for cancer and other conditions, Health Checks, public mental health, e-cigarette tobacco harm reduction, sexual and reproductive health, and a range of wellbeing programmes for infants, youth, adults and older adults. He also established and led PHE’s Health Equity portfolio with a range of programmes and activities focused on addressing the social determinants of health and promoting place-based approaches to health improvement.
Between 2005-2012, Professor Fenton was the Director of the National Centre for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He also served as chief of CDC’s National Syphilis Elimination Effort and has worked in research, epidemiology, and the prevention of HIV and other STDs since 1995. Previously he was the director of the HIV and STI Department at the United Kingdom’s Health Protection Agency.

Type: Lectures and Seminars