List of C3 events

C3 hosts several events a year, including regular international breakfast seminars (listed below). C3 also participates in many events throughout the year, a selection of which can be seen here >>.

2012

January:

Panelists at Diabetes QT

C3 co-hosted a lively and informative Diabetes ‘Question Time’ event, held in Westminster Central Hall, London, with an invited audience of 150, with panellists including members of parliament.

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2011

October:

Dr Tracey Koehlmoos breakfast seminar, ‘Good health at low cost: can Britain learn from Bangladesh’s low-cost, low-tech solutions to the chronic disease crisis?’

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September:

Dr Jacqueline Sherris breakfast seminar, ‘Women’s cancer and the lessons learned for broader NCD prevention and management’ 

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July:

Dr Craig Nossel seminar, ‘Discovery Health’s Vitality programme: Incentives that create healthy behaviour and show health and financial results’.

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June:

C3 convened a meeting of experts on the Early Origins of Health in London, and also attended a meeting in New York on the subject

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Dr Denise Stevens seminar ‘Community Interventions for Health: an exemplar for how environment influences behaviour’.

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May:

Diabetes Question Time, hosted by C3 Collaborating for Health, Diabetes UK and Novo Nordisk, at the Houses of Parliament, London.

• For more info on the event please visit the DUK website here >>
• This event launched Diabetes: The Human, Social and Economic Challenge, a book coauthored by C3 and Novo Nordisk: click here >> to download

March:

Meeting on the Early Origins of Health, bringing together a number of partners and expertise from a wide range of areas including nutrition, maternal health, child health, the empowerment of women and community engagement

• For more on C3’s Early Origins of Health work, click here >>

Prof. Diane Finegood seminar on ‘Beyond Foresight: can systems thinking help us address complex problems like obesity and chronic disease?’, the 6th in the International Breakfast Seminar series

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January:

Seminar 5 in the International Breakfast Seminar series, given by Simon Stevens, president of the global health division at the UnitedHealth Group: ‘New models for chronic disease prevention and management: insights from across the Atlantic’

• Click here >> for a précis of the event

2010

November:

The fourth C3 International Breakfast Seminar: ‘King and the non-communicated diseases’ – preparing for the UN Summit on NCDs (Sir George Alleyne)

• For more information, click here >>

September:

Third in the International Breakfast Seminar Series: ‘The rocky road to a global health agenda – why Big Tobacco may be smiling’ (Dr Tom Glynn)

• For more information, click here >>

July:

Second in the International Breakfast Seminar series: ‘Should you be eating that much salt?’ (Professor Bruce Neal)

• For more information, click here >>

June:

Launch meeting in Washington DC of the Global Nursing Project (with the International Council of Nurses, Pfizer External Medical Affairs, and the International Alliance of Patient Organizations).

• For a report on the meeting, click here >>

First in the series of International Breakfast Seminars: ‘Legacies of the London Olympic Games?’ (Professor Tony Capon)

• For more information, click here >>

May:

Follow-up workshop on Diabetes in the UK workplace (see also below, February).

• For more information, click here >>

April:

C3 organised the Oxford Health Alliance summit in New Delhi, India, on 19 and 20 April, bringing together nearly 90 experts on chronic disease prevention from over 20 countries (and that in spite of it taking place in the middle of the disruption due to the Iceland volcano).

• For agenda and presentations from Day 1, click here >>
• For agenda and presentations from Day 2, click here >>
• For a blog from the event, click here >>

February:

‘Diabetes as a model for chronic disease prevention and management in the UK workplace’, an event commissioned by Dame Carol Black (National Director of Health and Work) to raise the issues of prevention and management of diabetes within the context of workplaces, and to use this as a possible model for other chronic diseases among working-age people.

• Click here >> for a synopsis and links to pdfs of the presentations.
• Video footage of the event, and short interviews with the speakers, are available here >>

2009

November:

‘Savvy switching: nudging consumers towards healthier choices’ – an event investigating why it is that individuals make such poor food choices even when we know it is not in our long-term interest, and addressing ways in which consumers can be encouraged or enabled to switch to healthier eating patterns.

• Click here >> for a synopsis