EGA Institute for Women's Health & UCLH WH Division - 18th Annual Conference 2023

Link to Register

The in person event will this year be held at Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, NW1 2BJ

Event details

This year the format will include oral presentations from IfWH/UCLH Researchers presenting their work, and undergoing a Q&A session. Presentations will be judged by our panel, and prizes awarded for the overall best performances.

In addition to this, as like every year, we will have our poster presentations and prizes, as well as highlights from our Institute staff of the high profile research that has been undertaken.

Furthermore, this year we will be hosting a Debate and a Key Note Lecture from externally invited speakers of clinical and academic backgrounds.

Details regarding the Key Note Lecture can be found below.

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In order to illustrate the successes and achievements of the UCL Institute for Women’s Health and UCLH Women’s Health Division, the meeting will be recorded.

If you have any queries, please get in touch with the IfWH Annual Conference Organising Committee

Keynote Speaker

Marian Knight 

Professor of Maternal & Child Population Health at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford

'Inequality in Women's Health'

Marian Knight is Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, UK and NIHR Strategic Director for Research Infrastructure. She is a public health physician and applied health researcher whose research focuses on the care and prevention of severe complications of pregnancy and early life and addressing disparities in outcomes for women and babies from different population groups. She established the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS) in 2005 to conduct national studies of severe morbidities in pregnancy and leads the MBRRACE-UK national Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity. She leads a parallel stream of work to improve the care of babies who undergo surgery in early life. She was elected to fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2021 in recognition of her exceptional contribution to the advancement of medical science, and awarded an MBE in the 2023 King’s New Year Honours for services to maternal and Public Health.

Debate - Invited Speakers

His research focuses on creating and evaluating algorithms for phenotyping, risk prediction, data modelling, and disease subtype discovery in structured electronic health records, clinical and omics data.

Spiros leads Health Data UK’s (HDR UK) National Phenotype Library project which provides an open access library of electronic health record phenotyping algorithms and enables reproducible research at scale.

Other speakers

 UCLH/IfWH Hot Topic Speaker