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This week's Tackling Health Inequalities conference at The King's Fund brought together organisations working to improve health outcomes for communities across the UK. It was an opportunity to engage with current thinking and emerging evidence across the sector to inform and strengthen our own approach. Over the next four years, as INSIGHT scales to link national health data resources with funding from the Medical Research Council, Roxanne CROSBY-NWAOBI is leading our work addressing the risks of bias in artificial intelligence, to ensure equitable benefits for underserved communities. The conference provided learnings on the policy landscape, global and grassroots efforts to achieve health equity. Highlights included: - Dr Diane Addei, Director National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme, NHS England, described the influence of social determinants. Inequities in the most deprived neighbourhoods costs the economy around £29.8 billion per year in lost productivity, yet there are community health assets that can be mobilised to improve health and wellbeing. There are also opportunities for harnessing the NHS, from more strategic commissioning to multi-agency action, said Dr Addei. - Dame Rachel de Souza, Children's Commissioner for England, spoke passionately about the scale of health inequality facing children and the need to join up siloed health, education and housing policies. Alongside these compelling keynotes, panel discussions and interactive breakout sessions explored national and local approaches to reducing health inequalities. This was valuable context for INSIGHT's commitment to shape the development of artificial medical intelligence that works for everyone. Read more about the wider programme to scale INSIGHT, working with Pearse Keane's medical AI lab at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London 🔗 https://lnkd.in/et4a_qMX #KFHealthInequalities #dowith