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Events

2010 Preventive Health Conference
The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London

Matrix is exhibiting at the 2010 Preventive Health Conference on Wednesday 30th June 2010. It will be the 3rd Annual Preventive Health Conference, the UK’s premier event for those involved in improving the nation’s health through medical prevention. Please click here to read the brochure and to find out more about the event.

Guardian Public Services Awards 2009
London

Matrix Knowledge Group sponsored the Transformation award at the Guardian Public Services Awards 2009. The prize was awarded to the Sheffield City Council Care4you team, find out more about the winning team here. More information on the awards can be found in our press release.

Launch of the T2A Alliance Young Adult Manifesto
Millbank, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Millbank, London SW1P 4RQ

Kevin Marsh presented at the launch of the T2A Alliance Young Adult Manifesto on 25th November 2009, you can download the report here – Economic analysis of interventions for young adult offenders.

NHS leaders tackle race equality in health at London summit
Dali University, County Hall, London

NHS leaders met in London on 19th October 2009 for a summit to discuss ways to improve race equality in health. Cynthia Bower, Chief Executive of the new Care Quality Commission (the NHS regulator) was keynote speaker at the Race for Health summit, which was attended by Chief Executives and Chairs of leading NHS trusts, PCTs and Strategic Health Authorities. read more »

Dr Kevin Marsh: Annual Meeting and Conference of the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis
Washington Court Hotel, Washington, D.C – October 20 and 21, 2009

Dr Kevin Marsh presented at the 2009 Society Conference & Meeting on October 20 and 21, 2009 at the Washington Court Hotel, Washington, D.C. His paper was titled Using Subjective Well-Being Measures to Value Policy Outcomes and you can download it here.

David Welbourn: Expert on call, Organisational Health
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

The NHS Institute supports the NHS to transform healthcare for patients and the public by rapidly developing and spreading new ways of working, new technology, and world class leadership. Expert on Call gives leading thinkers from the NHS Institute and beyond the opportunity to share their experiences and answer questions from NHS staff working in service improvement.

During this session, which was held on Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 4:00 pm, David Welbourn spoke about the concept of organisational health which can help us understand how large organisations, such as the NHS, work and how they can respond to the challenges they face.

You can listen to the recording here.

Taking stock and moving forward
18 June 2009 – Taking stock and moving forward conference, Brussels

Mariell Juhlin, a Matrix Insight Director presented at the Taking stock and moving forward conference held in Brussels on 18 June 2009. The conference took place following the successful completion of the ex-post evaluation of FP6 and the publication of the expert group’s report in February 2009 and was designed to take stock of what had been achieved and to consider how future evaluations of the Framework Programme might be improved even further.

Mariell presented Key Findings In relation to an Evaluation of the Pertinence and Impact of the EU Support Actions to Research Infrastructures in the 6th Framework Programme, you can download the slides here. You can also find out more about conference by following this link.

Operationalising the value of culture and sport
26th June 2009 – ESRC/AHRC/DCMS Policy Seminar

Kevin Marsh (Lead Economist at Matrix) wrote a paper on Operationalising the value of culture and sport which was presented by Adam Cooper (DCMS) at the ESRC/AHRC/DCMS Policy Seminar at the Department for Culture Media & Sport on Friday 26th June 2009.

The title of the seminar was Not Only…But Also: Capturing the Value of Culture Media and Sport. You can read the presentation slides here.