Partnering for prevention: Insights from two decades of policy and practice

As part of our 20th anniversary year, Health Equalities Group (HEG) will be hosting a one-hour webinar providing a space to reflect on two decades of upstream public health work, while firmly looking to the future. Drawing on our experience across programmes such as Heart of Mersey, Healthy Stadia, Food Active, and the Prevention Pledges, the webinar will explore how prevention can be meaningfully embedded into the everyday workings of local systems.

The discussion will examine how HEG’s approach – rooted in evidence, collaboration, and equity – has evolved to meet complex health challenges, and how this learning can inform the next phase of public health leadership. With contributions from partners in academia, the NHS, and local government, the event will explore how we are helping to shift systems upstream, embed prevention across settings, and respond to the wider determinants of health with clarity and purpose.

This will be a forward-looking conversation grounded in real-world experience, focused on the practical learning gained over the last twenty years and how we’re helping turn ambition into action. It will also reflect on the kinds of skills, insight, and collaboration that are needed to respond to emerging public health challenges, drawing on examples of how these have been applied in practice across programmes, partnerships, and settings.