CAO Conference: Bridging Gaps, Building Futures - Integrating Disability and Inclusion through Academic Health Science Practice

You are invited to a conference on how to bridge the work of universities, hospitals and community healthcare to combat disability and exclusion. The conference will be hosted by the Chief Academic Officer Group in collaboration with HSE Dublin and Midlands.

This conference will focus on how academic research can help to those with a disability and those who are excluded from society. 

Researchers and speakers from outside academia will describe and reflect on the role of universities in improving innovation, carrying out research, and inputting into policy to ensure that our country’s care systems help and aid marginalised groups.

Date and time: Friday 3rd October 2025 at from 9am to 1pm

Venue: Exam Hall, Trinity College Dublin ​​

Register to attend: Please share this event information with relevant colleagues and advise that registration is necessary to attend. You can register to attend this event here: Integrating Disability & Inclusion through Academic Health Partnership Tickets, Fri 3 Oct 2025 at 09:00 | Eventbrite 

Register here to attend this event: Integrating Disability & Inclusion through Academic Health Partnership Tickets, Fri 3 Oct 2025 at 09:00 | Eventbrite 

Theme of the conference: Transforming Health Systems through Inclusive, Interdisciplinary, and Person-Centered Approaches.

The theme will emphasise the role of academic health sciences in driving innovation, research, and policy to ensure that integrated care systems are inclusive of marginalized populations, including people with disabilities and those experiencing social exclusion.

What is the aim of the conference?

To focus on the intersectionality between disability and inclusion health, reflect on gaps that prevent us from delivering comprehensive integrated care and to consider how an Academic Health Science System (AHSS) can be leveraged to  identify  through education research and innovation alternative approaches to the delivery of care. We will also consider the challenge of providing needs assessment at scale and the workforce of the future required to deliver this.  

Who is this event most relevant to? 

Healthcare practitioners and specialists practicing in disability,  inclusion and mental health services including AHSCPs, clinicians from psychiatry, Child and adolescent mental health services, public health, addiction, homelessness, migration and emergency and primary care, corporate leadership teams, Heads of Service, academics, Chief academic Officers and Regional Executive Officers. Integrated service boards,  service designers, policy makers.