Event information
- Date
- 07 July 2025
- Time
- Starts: 12.00 pm | Ends: 1.00 pm
- Location
- Online
Event overview
NASP are pleased to host this webinar in collaboration with Professor Marcello Bertotti and Emmanuela Osei-Asemani at the Institute for Connected Communities (University of East London).
This session will bring together leading voices from research and practice to explore the evolving role of social prescribing within secondary care settings. Whilst social prescribing has traditionally been focussed on primary care, this seminar will explore its potential to benefit people with multiple health and social issues presenting to secondary care, particularly following hospital discharge.
The speakers will include researchers presenting results from a systematic review of social prescribing in secondary care and practitioners working across various settings sharing their experience with developing social prescribing in secondary care. It is anticipated that this will help advancing the role of social prescribing in supporting health and wellbeing beyond primary care settings.
Sessions and speakers
Prof. Marcello Bertotti & Emmanuela Osei-Asemani - Findings from Systematic Review on Social Prescribing in Secondary Care
Dr Johann Cailhol - Implementing Social Prescribing in Secondary Care in France
Dr Tara Mastracci - Integrating Social Prescribing in Cardiovascular Secondary Care Pathways (UK Context)
Professor Marcello Bertotti, University of East London
Marcello Bertotti is a professor in public health at the Institute for Connected Communities, University of East London. He has 20 years’ work experience in research and evaluation of community health interventions, social enterprise, asset-based approaches to health, and in the last 10 years he made a significant contribution to the development of social prescribing internationally by leading on evaluations, network building, and trainings. It has used a range of methodologies and approaches to evaluation including realist evaluation, social network analysis, asset mapping and used approaches to systematic reviews including meta-narrative and systematic mapping to study health interventions and communities and has recently (2024) edited the publication of a book exploring the research, policy and practice of social prescribing in six countries (Springer)
Dr Tara Mastracci, St Bartholomew’s Hospital
Dr. Mastracci is a Canadian Vascular Surgeon currently working as a Complex Aortic Surgeon at Barts Heart Hospital, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, East London, United Kingdom. She works in both the departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cardiovascular Prevention and leads both the Endovascular Aortic Service and Social Prescribing Programme for the East London Cardiovascular Prevention Group (ELoPE). She is an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London in the Department of Surgical and Interventional Sciences. She moved to the United Kingdom in 2014 and has worked in London since that time. Dr. Mastracci’s research interests cross two streams. She does clinical research focusing on outcomes after complex endovascular repair, and the imaging of diseases of the aorta and most recently she has worked to build a clinical system of remote monitoring to apply mobile digital technology to the treatment of this challenging disease, as well as the integration of fusion imaging in the intraoperative treatment of aortic diseases. Her second more recent area of study has been furthering the understanding of the role of social deprivation on the outcomes of cardiovascular disease, and is currently working to build, and study, a platform for social prescribing in Secondary Care.
Dr Johann Cailhol, Seine Saint Denis University Hospitals, Paris
Dr Johann Cailhol is currently an Associate Professor of Public Health at the Public Health Department of Seine Saint Denis University Hospitals. She also works as a clinician in the Infectious Diseases Unit. Her experience and research interests focus on how to adapt organisations to address patients’ social needs in order to reduce social inequalities in health. At the hospital, she has been involved in testing a combination of discharge coordination with health mediation as a form of social prescribing.
Emmanuela Osei-Asemani, University of East London
Emmanuela is a researcher at the Institute for Connected Communities, University of East London, and the Clinical Trials Unit at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She works alongside Professor Marcello Bertotti on projects exploring the implementation and impact of social prescribing in secondary care and advancing social prescribing efforts globally. With a background in public health and psychology, Emmanuela has contributed to several projects focused on improving equitable healthcare practices and promoting diversity in clinical research through community engagement and participant-led methods. This has involved working with local community organisations, organising focus groups, and disseminating findings across a variety of settings.
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