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Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference, Bristol, 24th-26th June 2013

24th-26th June 2013

Culture Health and Wellbeing International Conference
24th, 25th, 26th
June 2013
Bristol, United Kingdom

The conference will inform international perspectives on:

  • Healthy and Creative Ageing
  • Global Health Inequalities and Culture
  • Culture and the Social Determinants of Wellbeing

With a particular focus on:
- Research

  • The latest research and new methodologies
  • The dissemination of international research and evaluation

- Policy

  • Local, regional, national, and international policy development
  • Developing national and international collaborations and networks

- Practice

  • Museums and Health
  • Arts in healthcare settings
  • Arts and health promotion/prevention

The international conference website is now open for registration and the submission of abstracts for presentations, workshops and performances relating to any of the themes above is welcomed.

Deadline for submissions of abstracts: December 21st 2012.
Please note delegates whose abstracts are accepted will need to register and pay for the conference.

Speakers:
Conference Chair:
Professor Richard Parish, Chief Executive of the Royal Society for Public Health

Keynote speakers include:

  • Lord Howarth of Newport
  • Margret Meagher, Arts and Health Australia
  • John Wyn Owen, Learned Society of Wales
  • David Leventhal, Dance for Parkinson's Disease, USA

Registration
Early Bird - £350 (until Midnight February 28th 2013)
Full Cost - £450 (1st – May 31st 2013)
Day Registration - £150 (from March 1st 2013 (depending on availability))

Click here to register

The conference will be delivered by Arts & Health South West on behalf of the National Alliance for Arts, Health and Wellbeing with the support of the Royal Society for Public Health UK.

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