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SUMMARY:Comparative perspectives on social inequalities in life and death:
  an interdisciplinary conference - Mike Kelly\, Senior Visiting Fellow\, D
 epartment of Public Health and Primary Care\, University of Cambridge\; Ti
 m Clutton-Brock\, Director of Research and formerly Prince Philip Professo
 r of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, University of Cambridge 
DTSTART:20180601T090000Z
DTEND:20180601T153000Z
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CONTACT:Lucy Lloyd
DESCRIPTION:With Robert Seyfarth\, Professor of Psychology\, University of
  Pennsylvania\, USA\; \nStephen Suomi\, Recent Chief of the Laboratory of 
 Comparative Ethology in NICHD\, Bethesda\, USA\; and\nRebecca Sear\, Head 
 of Department of Population Health\, London School of Hygiene & Tropical M
 edicine\, London.\n\n*Who is this conference for?*\n \nThis conference is 
 for everyone with an interest in inequalities in human health and what can
  be learned from the study of the biology\, behaviour and social interacti
 ons of humans and other social mammals.\n \nWe welcome students and academ
 ic colleagues especially from across the University including Sociology\, 
 Zoology\, Geography\, Anthropology\, Epidemiology and the Natural Sciences
 .\n \nWith its focus on the adaptive value of social relationships and car
 e giving\, the conference will be of interest to researchers on the early 
 life origins of healthy lives and interventions to optimise them\, and to 
 practitioners in public health and primary care and maternity\, infant car
 e and social care.\n \nThe conference brings together eminent researchers 
 who studied under the benevolent supervision of Professor Robert Hinde and
  will be of great interest to those who also benefitted from his teaching.
 \n \n*What is this conference about?*\n \nThe purpose of this conference i
 s to widen our understanding of inequalities in human health to inform fut
 ure enabling action. We aim to do this by consideration of relevant proces
 ses among other social mammals. We will consider particularly social\, beh
 avioural and biological mechanisms within social groups and their impact o
 n thriving\, survival and reproductive success.\n \nHealth inequalities pe
 rsist\, and are currently widening\, in the UK and globally. There is stro
 ng evidence that position in the social hierarchy in humans is closely rel
 ated to disease risk. The result is a social gradient in health — the wo
 rse health the lower the social position.\n \nSocial hierarchies\, sustain
 ed across generations\, are also widespread among other mammals and there 
 is increasing evidence of the mechanisms by which they influence survival 
 and reproductive success in these groups. We are particularly interested i
 n the adaptive value of social relationships and how\, within social group
 s\, behaviour of individuals can vary between co-operative and competitive
 . A central form of cooperative behaviour is care giving and we will discu
 ss this behaviour which is a powerful predictor of later social and health
  outcomes in humans and other social mammals.\n \n*What does the conferenc
 e cover?*\n \nThe programme moves from the consideration of the persistenc
 e of inequalities in human health\, exploring the relevance of social cont
 ext and mechanisms that sustain social position across both time and gener
 ations\, to a consideration of fitness in other social mammals and aspects
  of resilience in unstable environments. In the afternoon\, we take exampl
 es of free-living baboons in Botswana\, and captive colonies of macaques i
 n Bethesda\, USA to consider social and epigenetic mechanisms maintaining 
 social hierarchy and relationships across generations.\n\nFind out more ab
 out this conference and *"register here":https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co
 mparative-perspectives-on-social-inequalities-in-life-and-death-tickets-43
 569700146*
LOCATION:Old Divinity School\, St John's College\, St John's Street\, Camb
 ridge CB2 1TP
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