Events

SOM event in partnership with the Faculty of Occupational Medicine and the University of Glasgow 

Perspectives on COVID-19 and Risk - Online Summit, 10th November

A half day online summit aiming to clarify dilemmas in medicine and public perception of COVID-19 risk:
*    Does unemployment create a bigger societal risk to health than COVID-19?
*    Are scientific approaches to individual and societal risk to COVID-19 challengeable?
*    What long-term approach to risk should medical leaders take to the public?
*    Do people understand risk? By decreasing one risk are we increasing another?

Target audience – senior policy leaders within health, government, and industry

2pm Welcome Lord Blunkett, SOM Patron

Introductory overview – Professor Ewan Macdonald OBE, University of Glasgow - Why is this
important?

2.15pm Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme Balancing risk in Health, Economy and Society

2.30pm Professor Sir Michael Marmot Inequalities in COVID

2.45pm Dr Richard Heron, BP Perspectives from industry

3pm Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox The QCOVID clinical risk stratification tool, its
development and potential value

3.15pm Professor David Coggon OBE and Dr Tony Williams Covid Age - Workplace risk

3.30pm Professor Trish Greenhalgh OBE The risks and lived experience of long COVID

3.45pm Professor Maggie Rae, President of Faculty of Public Health Public Health perspectives

4pm Sir David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS Communicating risks

4.15pm Professor David Heymann CBE Living with the COVID-19 pandemic: using the tools we have

4.30pm Lord Blunkett – panel discussion: Risk and Society

Discussion with President of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Dr Anne de Bono, and Professor Anne Harriss, President of the SOM

5pm Close

CPD via the Faculty of Occupational Medicine

£25 per ticket (you will be emailed a Zoom link to join)

FREE for SOM Members (please log in on the SOM website first). 

This exclusive webinar by Kathryn Creek will cover:

1) Introduction on beryllium forms and use

2) Industry Statement

3) Description of Chronic Beryllium Disease (CBD)

4) Human body systems involved in CBD

5) Types of immune system reactions

6) Steps of progression to CBD

7) Understanding beryllium exposure risks

8) Lessons learned from the US 

This Webinar is kindly sponsored by NEBOSH

FREE for SOM Members (please log in on the SOM website). You will then be sent a link to register on the Adobe Connect Webinar platform.

This event is worth 1 CPD Hour.

The new world of work - Half day Zoom webinar

Learn practical strategies and techniques to improve return to work and understand the new world of work. Attendees are likely to be professionals and managers with an interest in work and health including HR managers, health professionals, insurers, and members of SOM, VRA, BPS.

A morning webinar - £49

10.00 Welcome and initial comments - Professor Anne Harriss, President SOM; Return to work - Deborah Edwards, VRA

10.30 When you do not want to come back to work - what is reasonable? - Dr Steve Boorman, Empactis

11.00 The future world of work - Rachel Suff, CIPD

11.30 Fear of return to work - Jo Yarker

12.00 Next steps following the Health is everyone’s business consultation - Angus Gray, Work and Health Unit tbc

12.30 Legal issues of returning to work - Gemma Woodhouse, Pennington’s

Panel discussion and Q and A

Close 1.15

This Can Happen, 23-25 November, is a 3-day global, online event supporting workplaces in creating positive mental health. Offering solutions and strategies, delegates can choose the conference sessions that best suit them including panels, keynotes, interviews and experientials.

We will be discussing often untouched subjects such as obesity, infertility, racism and managing trauma plus continuing conversations on tech, line management, loneliness and employee engagement. The agenda offers something for every delegate - no matter where you are on your mental health journey.

The conference is our flagship event and we are proud to have past keynote speakers such as HRH Duke of Cambridge, Mel B, Nadiya Hussain as well as FTSE100 CEOs.

Download the agenda and book now using code SOM15 for a 15% discount to secure your place and prioritise employee mental health.