SUSTAIN at the International Conference on Integrated Care 2017

SUSTAIN will be part of the IFIC’s 17th International Conference on Integrated Care 2017, Dublin 8-10 May 2017

Published: 10th February 2017

We are glad to announce that SUSTAIN will be part of the IFIC’s 17th International Conference on Integrated Care 2017, that will take place in Dublin, Ireland 08 to 10 May 2017. The ICIC conference is organized in association with 5th World Congress on Integrated Care (WCIC5).

The ICIC conference  2017, that will be dedicated to “Building a platform for integrated care: delivering change that matters to people”, will bring together researchers, clinicians and managers from around the world who are engaged in the design and delivery of integrated health and social care. They will share experience and the latest evidence about integrating Public Health, Health and Social Care and the New roles and Possibilities for Hospitals, producing Positive and Curative Integrated Mental and Physical Care, mobilising key enablers like policy making and Mobile and Digital Health Solutions, and investment in an Integrated Care Workforce, clinical leadership and coproduction with individuals, careers, communities and populations.

SUSTAIN will be featured twice within the conference programme., firstly with its own workshop titled “SUSTAIN: what have we learned so far and how to move forward?” chaired by SUSTAIN’s project manager Caroline Baan and Project Manager Simone De Bruin, and with the contribution of Jenny Billings (UniKent), Nick Zonneveld (Vilands), Viktoria Stein (IFIC), and Marta Arcas (AQuAS).

SUSTAIN will also participate as contributor within the workshop “EU-funded Integrated Care for Vulnerable Persons (e.g., chronically ill, multi-morbid, frail elderly) Research Projects“, together with partners from other three EU-funded projects: SELFIE (www.selfie2020.eu); ACT@Scale (https://www.act-at-scale.eu/) and JA-CHRODIS (http://chrodis.eu/).

Keep following our website to know more about SUSTAIN’s participation in the ICIC conference and in other international meetings!