Professor Mark Johnson (UK) has been confirmed as the first keynote speaker at Diversity in Health 2010.
Professor Johnson is an internationally renowned expert on managing diversity in health and welfare service delivery. As co-director of the UK Centre for Evidence in Ethnicity, Health and Diversity, he has developed a substantial body of qualitative and quantitative research on ethnicity and health, which is used to strengthen policy and evidence-based practice.
He actively supports the development of community-based research and responses to culturally specific needs, and is a Trustee of the Afiya Trust. He is also the editor of the journal Diversity in Health and Care and director of the Mary Seacole Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester.
Professor Johnson is currently evaluating initiatives to reduce inequalities in healthcare, and working with the National Health Service to investigate the applicability of health outcome measures for a multi-ethnic population. His Centre has developed an electronic index to 'best practice' in ethnicity and health for the NHS National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
His very substantial CV includes over 30 years of research into ethnic relations, ranging from multi-agency health and welfare service delivery to community cohesion, health, policing, employment, language support and racial harassment.
As well as delivering the keynote address for Diversity in Health, Professor Johnson will lend his experience and wit to the conference debate ‘Multicultural Health - Myth or Reality?'
View the NICE NHS Evidence collection.