WAHWN February Network Meeting

Thursday 19th February

10 – 11.30am

Partnership Approaches to Tackling Health Inequalities

Join us for our February network meeting to learn more about how the arts are addressing health inequalities and the potential to develop arts and health focused solutions. Alongside sharing examples of arts interventions, we will be joined by Dr Kathrin Thomas, member of DEEP END CYMRU – a Wales wide network of GP practices and practitioners working in areas of high deprivation and committed to tackling health inequalities.

About the speaker

Dr Kathrin Thomas is a retired GP and Consultant in Public Health. Kathrin has focused on tackling health inequity, both working as a family doctor in the most deprived communities in Liverpool and the South Wales Valleys, and in a variety of strategic public health roles. She is a Bevan Commission Senior Fellow focusing on maximising the health sector contribution to tackling health inequities. She is Co-Chair of the UK Faculty of Public Health Special Interest Group for Primary Care and Public Health and a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners Health Equity Special Interest Group. She also has an interest in global health, as recent past Chair of the Wales and Africa Health Links Network, and remains involved in a long-term partnership between Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and the Ministry of Health in Lesotho.

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Dydd Iau 19 Chwefror

10 – 11.30am

Dulliau Partneriaeth ar gyfer Mynd i’r Afael ag Anghydraddoldebau Iechyd

Ymunwch â ni yng nghyfarfod rhwydwaith mis Chwefror i glywed mwy am y ffordd y mae’r celfyddydau’n mynd i’r afael ag anghydraddoldebau iechyd a’r potensial i ddatblygu datrysiadau’n canolbwyntio ar y celfyddydau ac iechyd. Ochr yn ochr â rhannu ymyriadau celfyddydol, bydd Dr Kathrin Thomas yn ymuno â ni. Mae hi’n aelod o DEEP END CYMRU – rhwydwaith Cymru gyfan o feddygfeydd a meddygon teulu sy’n gweithio mewn ardaloedd o amddifadedd uchel ac sy’n ymrwymo i fynd i’r afael ag anghydraddoldebau iechyd.

Am y siaradwr

Mae Dr Kathrin Thomas wedi ymddeol fel meddyg teulu ac Ymgynghorydd Iechyd Cyhoeddus. Mae Kathrin wedi canolbwyntio ar fynd i’r afael ag anghydraddoldeb iechyd, drwy weithio fel meddyg teulu yng nghymunedau mwyaf difreintiedig Lerpwl a chymoedd de Cymru, ac mewn amrywiol rolau strategol ym maes iechyd cyhoeddus. Mae hi’n Uwch Gymrawd gyda Chomisiwn Bevan yn canolbwyntio ar gynyddu cyfraniad y sector iechyd i fynd i’r afael ag anghydraddoldebau iechyd. Mae’n cyd-Gadeirio Grŵp Diddordeb Arbennig Cyfadran Iechyd Cyhoeddus y DU ar Ofal Sylfaenol ac Iechyd Cyhoeddus ac yn aelod o Grŵp Diddordeb Arbennig Coleg y Meddygon Teulu ar Gydraddoldeb Iechyd. Mae ganddi ddiddordeb hefyd mewn iechyd byd-eang, fel cyn-Gadeirydd diweddar Rhwydwaith Cysylltiadau Iechyd Cymru ac Affrica, ac mae’n parhau i ymwneud â phartneriaeth tymor hir rhwng Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Betsi Cadwaladr a’r Weinyddiaeth Iechyd yn Lesotho.