Wednesday 12 September
10.00–18.00	Registration (Foyer, Keppel St)
10.30–12.30	SSM Committee, members only (Bradford Hill)
12.30–13.30	Invited lunch (LSHTM Bar), Free place recipients, new attendees, plenary speakers, SSM Main and ECR Committees, and Local Organising Committee
12.30–13.30	Lunch available to purchase (LSHTM Cafe or locally)
13.30–14.45	Opening Plenary (John Snow Theatre)
13.30–13.35	Welcome Peter Piot, Director, LSHTM
13.35–13.50	Capital connections: historical perspectives on the Society for Social Medicine in London Martin Gorsky, LSTHM
13.50–14.45	Cochrane Lecture The rise of ‘patients’ experiences’: evidence, distraction or final arbiter? Sue Ziebland, University of Oxford
14.45–15.25	Refreshments and poster viewing (North Courtyard Atrium)
15.25–17.00	Parallel Session A Socioeconomic inequalities I (Bennett); Public health interventions: area and weight management (John Snow); Population based studies: early life I (Manson); Physical activity (Bradford Hill); Mental health I (Lucas); HSR: economics and cost-effectiveness analysis (Geoffrey Rose)
18.30	Walk/public transport to King’s Fund
19.00–21.00	Conference Reception (King’s Fund)
19.30	Welcome Graham Hart, Dean, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, UCL
Thursday 13 September
08.30–16.30	Registration (Foyer, Keppel St)
09.00–10.35	Parallel Session B Diet and obesity (Bennett); Socioeconomic inequalities II (Bradford Hill); Public health interventions: transport (John Snow); Prevention (Lucas); Population based studies: early life II (Geoffrey Rose); HSR: quality and outcomes of care (Manson)
10.35–11.20	Refreshments and poster viewing (North Courtyard Atrium)
11.20–12.55	Parallel Session C Socioeconomic inequalities III (Manson); Public health interventions: smoking (John Snow); Population based studies: midlife (Bradford Hill); Population based studies: intergenerational (Bennett); HSR: professional behaviour and health care (Geoffrey Rose); HSR: general (Lucas)
13.00–14.00	Early Career Researchers’ Seminar, all ECRs (Geoffrey Rose)
13.00–14.00	Lunch (LSTHM Cafe)
14.00–14.45	SSM AGM, all members (Manson Theatre)
15.00–17.30	Trips or visits
15.00–17.30	Workshops in parallel Making an impact: improvement science, quality improvement and social medicine, Helen Crisp; Evaluation of complex public health interventions: concepts and methods, Mark Petticrew; Data linkage: problems and potential, Martin Bardsley; Missing data – when is it likely to cause a problem? Kate Tilling; Social media for social medicine, Louise Hurst; Are health professionals taking sustainable development and climate change less seriously than others and why? Past, present and future methods of engagement, David Pencheon
16.00–16.30	Workshop refreshments
18.30–19.00	Walk/public transport to dinner
19.00–23.30	Conference Dinner (Lincoln’s Inn)
21.30–23.30	Ceilidh & disco by Ceilidh Generation
23.30–00.00	Walk/public transport to accommodation
Friday 14 September
08.30–10.00	Registration (Foyer, Keppel St)
09.00–10.35	Parallel Session D Research methods: surveys and use of routine data (Manson); Public health policy analysis (Lucas); Public health interventions: diet (John Snow); Population based studies: mid life and older age (Bennett); Mental health II (Geoffrey Rose); HSR: evaluation of health care interventions (Bradford Hill)
10.35–11.05	Refreshments and poster viewing (North Courtyard Atrium)
11.05–13.30	Final Plenary (John Snow Theatre)
11.05–11.30	A simple morbidity score for UK primary care: a new tool for research and healthcare outcome monitoring Iain Carey
11.30–11.55	Breastfeeding and social mobility: neurological development or stress mechanisms? Amanda Sacker
11.55–12.20	Socio-economic inequalities in lung cancer treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis Lynne Forrest
12.20–13.15	Pemberton Lecture Ethnicity and health – challenges and opportunities Peter Whincup, St George’s Hospital Medical School
13.15–13.30	Awards and closing remarks
13.30–14.30	Lunch (LSHTM Cafe)