Knowledge into action: CHEX Conference 2025

9:30 for 10am – 3:30pm Wednesday 12th March
at The Barracks Conference Centre, Stirling

This year our focus is on turning knowledge and learning into action on the most pressing issues facing our sector.

We’ll be using a bit of a different format from usual, so instead of focusing on speakers, we’ll be hosting keynote listeners. These listeners will be there to hear your experiences and insights and work with us to ensure that our collective knowledge and experience is better understood and fed into work at the national level.

The conference will create a space for constructive cross-sectoral dialogue, which enables strategic decision-makers to better understand the day-to-day reality of what it takes to undertake community-led health practice across Scotland.

There will also be lots of time for networking and discussion and a chance to celebrate all your hard work over the year - we’re still working on the details of the programme so more information to come soon.

Please fill in the booking form to secure your place and we’ll look forward to seeing you there!

Our Listeners

Professor Linda Bauld
Professor Linda Bauld OBE is the Bruce and John Usher Chair in Public Health in the Usher Institute, College of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and Chief Social Policy Adviser to the Scottish Government.

Her research focuses on the prevention or treatment of the main modifiable risk factors for Non-Communicable Diseases including cancer, diabetes and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases with a particular focus on tobacco, alcohol, diet and inequalities in health.

Professor Bauld is Director of the SPECTRUM Consortium funded by the UK Prevention Research Partnership and Co-Director of Behavioural Research UK, funded by the ESRC. She is a former Scientific Adviser to the UK Department of Health and the World Health Organisation on tobacco control. Between 2014 and 2021 she combined her academic roles with serving as Cancer Research UK’s cancer prevention adviser.

She is a Trustee of Diabetes UK and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the Faculty of Public Health, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Social Sciences.  

Ruth Glassborow
Ruth brings extensive knowledge and experience of effecting change through both influencing national policy and translating policy priorities into national change programmes that deliver meaningful sustained improvement across public services.

As Director of Population Health and Wellbeing at Public Health Scotland, Ruth provides strategic leadership for the translation of public health data, evidence, intelligence and knowledge into effective improvements in policy and practice with a focus on getting upstream and addressing the wider determinants of health and wellbeing.

In her previous role as Director of Improvement at Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Ruth provided strategic leadership for the development and delivery of a range national programmes and approaches that enabled the application of quality improvement and large scale system redesign methodology to key health and social care system change priorities.

Ruth has a Masters in Public Administration from Warwick Business School and a Masters in Leadership (Quality Improvement) from Ashridge Business School. She is also a Health Foundation Generation Q fellow, a Health Foundation Sciana fellow and a qualified executive coach.

Rachel Baker
Rachel is Director of the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health and Professor of Health Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University.   

She leads the Common Health Assets project, in which CHEX is a partner. Common Health Assets is a UK-wide, multi-partner, multi-component research programme, exploring how community-led organisations impact on health & wellbeing of people in disadvantaged areas. It is in the final stages after 3 years of research and analysis is ongoing.  

Common Health Assets is funded by the National institute for Health Research (NIHR), led by the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University and brings together community and academic partners from across the UK.  

We are now at capacity - please sign up for the waiting list and we’ll be in touch!