About the conference

In collaboration with the Proud Rainbow City Partnership, Birmingham City Council’s public health division and equality and cohesion division, are holding a free virtual month-long conference titled:

• "PrideWell Summit - #UndertheScope: Birmingham LGBTQ+ Health & Wellbeing Conference"

The LGBTQ+ History Month health conference will run throughout February 2024, to celebrate the national LGBT History Month activities, and focus on the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people in Birmingham and around the UK.

Join us as we reflect on successes and learning from unique and shared challenges.

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Conference Aims

The conference will focus on accelerating and platforming work to:

• tackle LGBTQAI+ health inequalities
• inform and drive the actions of the Proud Rainbow City Partnership
• build Birmingham as a centre of LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing innovation
• support the National LGBT History Month activity and theme of "under the scope"

Events

We will be holding webinars throughout the month. The majority will be virtual via Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and some will be hybrid at locations in Birmingham, to support digital inclusion.

Events will focus on three priority themes:

• shine the light on issues
• celebrate and connect with communities,
• share emerging practice and learning.

We are keen to hold sessions that reflect the breadth of diversity across our LGBTQ+ communities and highlight intersectionality, therefore we are looking to support specific sessions in relation to this.

Some specific sessions with the primary focus on sexual orientation and gender identity, will link to the themes listed below. However, they can link to the wider LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing areas, such as Trans+ Health Services, HIV and AIDs, health service inclusion, specific health and wellbeing needs of LGBTQ+ people and more.

Some specific sessions will link to:

• our local ICS strategy clinical priorities relevant to the LGBTQ+ community:
  • circulatory disease
  • respiratory disease
  • cancer
  • mental health
• our health and wellbeing board strategy priorities:
  • physical activity
  • food
  • mental wellbeing
  • healthy ageing
  • addictions

We will be also be holding an ePoster competition which, alongside the recordings of the webinars, will offer a legacy for sharing learning from the conference.

Everyone is welcome to take part in the conference, to share learning and celebrate our diverse and vibrant LGBTQ+ community as we tackle health inequalities together.

Events programme

We will be launching the first events programme in January 2024, come back soon to find out more information.

Page last updated: 23 January 2024