Health and Wellbeing Roundtable Summary

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06/08/2020

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Improving health and wellbeing, and reducing health inequalities is one of Design Council’s three strategic priorities – a pressing issue that has been brought into sharper focus as a result of the coronavirus. As part of our work to identify where Design Council should best act in this area, we held a roundtable event of influential sector leaders in July. The roundtable session had two aims: firstly, to highlight how design is currently being used; and secondly, to share best-practice initiatives to explore collectively how design can be used to address wider determinants of health and wellbeing. 

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