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 >>.

2013

April:

Do businesses care about health? was co-hosted by St Mary-le-Bow Church and C3, held at St Mary-le-Bow, with speakers Katherine Ward (chief executive officer, UnitedHealth UK), Fiona Dawson (president, Mars Chocolate UK) and Christine Hancock (founder & director, C3).

• More information is  available here >>

Breakfast seminar given by Nico Pronk (HealthPartners and the Harvard School of Public Health): Behaviour, health and work performance: a simple metric

• More information is available here >>

C3 Workplace Health Series workshop on Tailoring services for a diverse workforce, including presentations byLawrence Waterman OBE (Olympic Delivery Authority) and Helen Wray (Mars).

• More information is available here >>

March:

Breakfast seminar given by Janet Voûte (vice president and global head of public affairs head of public affairs at Nestlé): The role of the food and beverage industry in addressing the double burden of nutrition

• More information is available here >>

January:

Breakfast seminar given by Dr Derek Yach (senior vice president at the Vitality Group) on A hard look at prevention: reflections and a call for dialogue 

• More information is available here >>

2012

December:

C3 Workplace Health Series workshop on Stress and mental resilience, including presentations by MIND and BT.

• More information is available here >>

November:

Breakfast seminar given by Dr Deneen Vojta (senior vice president for business initiatives and clinical affairs at UnitedHealth Group, and chief clinical officer of the Diabetes Prevention and Control Alliance) on Managing weight and preventing diabetes: a successful US initiative

• More information is available here >>

October:

The second in C3′s series of workshops on workplace health, on the use of new technologies, included a presentation by Angela Single of BT, and lively discussion on ways to use technology.

• For more information on this workshop, click here >>

September:

Breakfast Seminar given by Dr Rachel Nugent (research scientist in the Department of Global Health at University of Washington, and former deputy director of global health at the Center for Global Development) on How does chronic disease control stack up? The Copenhagen Consensus 2012.

• Slides from the event are available here >>
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July:

Breakfast seminar given by Denis Xavier (professor and head of pharmacology at St John’s Medical College, Bangalore; principal investigator of the NIH Center of Excellence, Bangalore) on Is the polypill the panacea that will reduce cardiovascular disease?

• Slides from the event are available here >>
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June:

The first of C3′s series of workshops on workplace health, ‘Preventing obesity and diabetes’, included a presentation by Dr Iain Frame (director of research at Diabetes UK) and discussion on existing programmes and challenges.

• For more information on this workshop, click here >>
• For Dr Frame’s slides, click here >>

Breakfast seminar given by Dr Cristina Rabadán-Diehl, director of the Centers of Excellence initiative at the US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and deputy director at the NHLBI Office of Global Health: Template for change: NIH-funded Centers of Excellence in the developing world

• Slides from the event are available here >>
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May:

Breakfast seminar given by Sian Griffiths, director of the School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China: Health in China – the challenge of NCDs

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April:

Breakfast seminar given by Roger Clemens, president of the Institute of Food Technologists, Nutrition’s contribution to performance in sport – realities and myths

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March:

Breakfast seminar given by Gary Cohen, co-founder and president of Health Care Without Harm, and Anja Leetz, executive director, HCWH Europe, Embedding environmental health and sustainability into healthcare

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January:

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

December:

Next steps for workplace health: 16 leading UK experts in workplace health attended a C3 workshop to share experiences of what works in workplace wellness, and exchange views on innovation and the challenges to future initiatives.

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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’

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2010

 

November:

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

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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)

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July:

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

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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)

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May:

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

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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.

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