Programme
Gay Health Forum 2024
Friday 23 August 9.00am – 3.40pm
Hibernia Conference Centre,
Dublin Castle,
D02 V8R2
GHF 2024 PROGRAMME
| Time | Content | Involved/Speaking/Presenting |
| 9:00am-9:30am | Registration | – |
| 9:30am-9:40am | Welcome and plan for the morning | Chairperson Alan Coyne (GHN) |
| 9.40am-9:50am | Recorded address from the Minister of State for Public Health and Well-Being and National Drug Strategy Colm Burke & GHN response | Minister of State Colm Burke Chairperson Alan Coyne (GHN) |
| Morning Session | Chair | David Field (Gay Men’s Health Service) |
| 9:50am-10.10am
10:10am-10:40am |
Clinical update from Prof. Fiona Lyons – HSE Clinical Lead for Sexual Health
Doxy PEP Panel Discussion |
Prof. Fiona Lyons – Consultant GUM and Clinical Lead Sexual Health & Crisis Pregnancy
Prof. Fiona Lyons; Dr John Gilmore; Aaron O’Sullivan and Adam Shanley |
| 10:40am-10:50am | Q & A | |
| 10:50am-11:00am | GMHS Data | Jessica Ennis (Gay Men’s Health Service) |
| 11:00am-11:10am | HPSC Update | Martha Neary (Health Protection Surveillance Centre) |
| 11:10am-11:20am | Man2Man Campaigns | Pádraig Burke (GHN) |
| 11:20am-11:40am | Coffee Break | Coffee/Networking/Posters |
| 11:40am-11.50am | LGBT Integration Strategy Shadow Report | Pádraig Rice (LGBT Ireland) |
| 11:50am-12.00pm | MPower Report | Adam Shanley (HIV Ireland) |
| 12:00pm-12.10pm | BeLonGTo LGBT Sexual Health | Kelsey Doyle (BeLonGTo) |
| 12:10pm-12:20pm | Community Casework | Hannah Kelly (Outhouse) |
| 12:20PM-12:30PM | RISE: Redefining Institutional Stigma Education – a step towards stigma-free healthcare for people living with HIV in Ireland | Ellen Conlon (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) |
| 12:30PM-12:40PM | Scoping Review of LGBTQI+ Health Research | Dr John Gilmore |
| 12:40PM-12:50PM | Putting LGBTQI+ into Relationships and Sexuality Education in Ireland | Lorraine O’Connell (Sexual Health West) |
| 12:50pm-1:00pm | Q&A | All Participants |
| 1:00PM-1:30PM | LUNCH | POSTERS/NETWORKING |
| Chair | Peter Keogh (GHN) | |
| 1:30pm-1:40pm |
Trans healthcare in Ireland | Jes Black |
| 1:40pm-1:50pm | The Cass Report should not be Ireland’s model of care | Sibéal Coll (Trans Healthcare Action) |
| 1:50pm-2:00pm | Update on institutional violence against trans and nonbinary people in medical settings – ILGA-Europe funded | Daire Dempsey (Transgender Equality Network Ireland) |
| 2.00pm-2:30pm |
Keynote: Expert Session Models of Trans Healthcare |
Dr Beth McElrea |
| 2:30pm-2:45pm | Keynote Panel Q&A | All participants |
| AFTERNOON SESSION | Chair | James O’Hagan |
| 2:45pm-2:55pm | Inter Partner Violence (IPV)PV and Coercive Control | Derek Byrne (Mensaid) |
| 2:55pm-3:05pm | Chemsex: and IPV | Graham Ryall (Rialto Community Drug Team) |
| 3:05pm-3:15pm | Q&A | All participants |
| 3:15pm-3:25pm | Presentation on foundations & history of GHN | Peter Keogh, GHN |
| 3:25pm-3:40pm | Exhibition presentation: ‘Out of the strong came forth sweetness’ (aka The 30 Project) | Brian Teeling |
| 3:40pm-3:55pm | Closing remarks, thank yous and feedback forms | Paul O’Connell (GHN) |
GHF 2024 is free to attend. Places are limited and are assigned on a first registered basis. It is advised to register as soon as possible. For all enquiries email ghf@ghn.ie.