Action to Improve Health & Prevent Deaths – Learning Disability & Autism

Join us in-person or online for a 1-day conference connecting researchers, health & social care, policymakers & people with lived experience
About this Event

What will it take to prevent avoidable deaths and improve lives for people with a learning disability and autistic people?
Evidence and Action to Improve Health and Prevent Early Deaths – Learning disability and Autism – Join us on Friday 16 October 2026 for a one-day conference in London. Can't join us in person? The conference will also be livestreamed.
The day will bring together leading international researchers, health and social care professionals, policymakers and people with lived experience and family carers to share evidence, explore the research and learning landscape, and identify actions to reduce healthcare barriers and avoidable deaths.
Speakers on the day include: 
·      Prof. Andre Strydom (King’s College London)
·      Prof. Baroness Sheila Hollins (House of Lords)
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·      Down Syndrome Association 
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