Webinar – Socio-economic Disadvantage Inclusion Training

with Dr Heidi R Green

Join this webinar to learn strategies to reduce barriers in health inequalities and understand the challenges faced by disadvantaged communities. This session includes a case study and will explore the NIHR INCLUDE Socio-economic Disadvantage Framework.

This is the final webinar in a 3-part series of online inclusivity training sessions for health and care researchers organised by six NIHR Biomedical Research Centres: Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health, with the aim of helping you to help embed inclusion in your research. (Please note, these sessions will be repeated in 2026).

These sessions are for research staff affiliated with the following Biomedical Research Centres: Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health.

For any questions about this session, please contact: Georgina Norris, PPIE Coordinator, NIHR Cambridge BRC: georgina.norris3@nhs.net.

Limited spaces available

About the speaker

Dr Heidi R Green is a Health Equity and Patient Involvement Specialist and a Creative Qualitative Researcher who co-developed the NIHR INCLUDE Socio-economic disadvantage framework which has been designed to aid researchers who are designing clinical trials to consider barriers to including patients from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds in their trial. The framework can also help researchers to develop strategies to attempt to address such barriers in order to improve the design and conduct of clinical research.

With over a decade of experience leading the design and delivery of innovative and award-winning projects, Heidi is an experienced health equity specialist, creative qualitative researcher, and lived experience advocate. Her mission is to embed accessibility and inclusivity into all of the projects she’s involved in, driving change for those that stand to benefit most.