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‘Healthy and fitness for all, health education for diverse communities’

Course/Event Date: Thursday, June 12, 2025

Course/Event Duration: 1 Day

Course/Event Description

Delegates are expected to include health professionals and those who educate health professional, health care students, science educators plus families and carers. 

Importantly, young people with Additional Support Needs will be presenting their perspectives on health education as part of the conference, including their investigations into how digital technologies can assist in health monitoring. The young people at two partnership schools have been on campus visiting the Strathclyde Living Laboratory Lab and investigating aspects of health and digital technologies and will be presenting their findings at workshops. The young people will be sharing the technologies that they have been using and talking about their thoughts on how to keep healthy, including by using technology to monitor health indicators. Some will provide hands on experience; others will present posters or other resources that they have prepared. 

We have line up of international speakers to talk about various aspects of the inequalities in health education and proposals for reducing the disparity through accessible education. The speakers include: 

  • Lauren Fulton, Scottish Learning Disability Observatory, on the making the importance of health screening comprehensible with a focus on screening for bowel cancer.
  • Leanne McNeill, University of Strathclyde, on health education for people with autism.
  • Claire Roden, Penn State University, on sex education for people with learning difficulties.
  • Dr Anne-Marie Martin, University College of Cork, on educating people with intellectual disabilities about healthy diets.

Course/Event Venue: Technology Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde

This course is targeted at the following specialty Groupings:

  • Medicine
  • Other Courses

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