CMHW return for Occupational Health 2024
CMHW members will be in Belfast this Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd June for Occupational Health 2024!
This year’s event, hosted jointly by the Society of Occupational Medicine and Faculty of Occupational Medicine, will be held at Titanic Museum Belfast, and will be another chance for people engaged in the field of work and health to hear about the latest research and to discuss future collaborations.
We are delighted that this year’s conference features several contributions from CMHW researchers from the Universities of Aberdeen and Southampton, including keynote talks, oral presentations, and poster showings.
On Thursday 20th June Dr Martin Stevens from University of Aberdeen will kick off our programme, as he discusses the latest progress in the QUICK study, which aims to develop a new questionnaire tool to quantify the impact of chronic pain on work.
On Friday 21st June CMHW Director Professor Gary Macfarlane will deliver the 2024 Ernestine Henry Lecture where he will be discussing the relationship between work and musculoskeletal health. Prof Macfarlane’s talk will be followed in one of the event’s parallel sessions, with Stefania D’Angelo of University of Southampton presenting her work reviewing patterns of sickness absence in older workers from the Health and Employment after Fifty (HEAF) study, and the association between sickness absence and subsequent health-related job loss. Shortly following this session Dr Georgia Ntani (also of University of Southampton) will discuss models of health and wellbeing services which have been implemented in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the UK, and discusses the characteristics of these models which have been shown to be clinically and cost effective.
Throughout the event we will also be displaying poster presentations of key Centre research, including Dr Cara Ghiglieri’s display on Making it Work™ - Scotland, adapting a digital work support programme for people with musculoskeletal conditions, and Stefania D’Angelo’s poster on a systematic review of the effect on anxiety of changes to work circumstances as a result of COVID-19.
You can find more details about Occupational Health 2024 on the conference website, and you can download a copy of our event schedule here.
See you all in Belfast!