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PROGRAMME

Club Health Liverpool 2023 aims to build capacity and capability among all groups that have a stake in healthy nightlife including the government agencies and local authorities that regulate it; the police, councils and public health professionals that manage it; the club owners, festival organisers and promoters that make it happen and the participants without whom it would not exist.

Objectives

The objectives of Club Health Liverpool 2023 include:

  • To develop understanding of the impacts of nightlife activity and the necessity for creating and maintaining safe and healthy nightlife environments
  • To facilitate the implementation of effective, evidence-based policies, interventions and approaches in nightlife environments that can reduce potential harms
  • To improve knowledge and expertise about how nightlife environments and settings can be developed, managed and sustained effectively
  • To promote multi-agency partnerships and networks at local, national and international levels

Topics

The key topics for Club Health Liverpool 2023 include:

  • Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs
  • Design and management of nightlife environments
  • Drug legislation and drug law reform
  • Digital technology
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Emerging trends in club culture
  • Emergency medicine
  • Forensic testing of substances, ‘pill testing’ and ‘early warning systems’
  • Gambling
  • Health and safety standards for nighttime environments
  • Health interventions in nightlife settings
  • International nightlife tourism
  • Nightlife legislation, policy and economic impact
  • Policing
  • Sexual health and risk-taking sexual behaviours
  • Sexual harassment and violence
  • Social exclusion
  • Violence
  • Workforce health and wellbeing

Conference format

Club Health Liverpool 2023 consists of plenary sessions featuring invited speakers, parallel sessions comprising submitted abstracts and poster presentations.

The conference opening session starts on Wednesday 1st November at 2.00 pm. This will be followed by a plenary session, parallel sessions and a welcome reception. The programme continues with plenary, parallel and poster sessions on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd November. The conference closes on Friday 3rd November at 5.00 pm.

Onsite registration will open on Wednesday 1st November 2019 at 12.00 noon.

The official conference language is English. There will be no translation services available.

Abstract submission

The abstract submission period will open on Friday 24 February 2023 and close Friday 30 June 2023. People who submit an abstract will be notified about whether their abstract has been accepted by Friday 4 August 2023.

For more information go to the abstract page

 

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