Health - Using evidence to improve health outcomes for individuals and communities
Tracks
Concurrent 2
Monday, October 22, 2018 |
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM |
Room 106 (Level 1) |
Details
At GEIS 2018, the sector of health will be led by Paul Glasziou, GP and Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at Bond University, and Professor Sally Green, Co-Director of Cochrane Australia and Professorial Fellow and Graduate Research Co-ordinator in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University.
Across the health sector, evidence plays a crucial role in understanding biological, psychological and social determinants of health outcomes for individuals and communities, in improving these outcomes, and in enhancing health equities. How can high-quality evidence be better used to make informed decisions that lead to better health for everyone?
Speaker
Dr Paul Glasziou
Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine
Bond University
Co-Presenter
Biography
Professor Paul Glasziou is Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at Bond University and a part-time General Practitioner. He is currently the Director of the Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice at Bond University and previously the Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford from 2003-2010.
Paul’s key interests include identifying and removing the barriers to using high-quality research in everyday clinical practice and more specifically on improving the clinical impact of publications by reducing the more than $85 billion annual loss from unpublished and unusable research (Chalmers, Glasziou, Lancet 2009).
Prof Sally Green
Co-Director
Cochrane Australia
Co-Presenter
Biography
Professor Sally Green is Co-Director of Cochrane Australia and a Professorial Fellow and Graduate Research Co-ordinator in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. She holds a PhD in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine from Monash University and clinical qualifications in physiotherapy.
In addition to her leadership positions in Cochrane, Sally has several competitively funded research projects in knowledge translation, aiming to improve health outcomes by investigating the best ways to inform clinical practice and policy with synthesised research evidence. She is a member of NHMRC’s Synthesis and Translation of Research Evidence (STORE) advisory committee and co-chairs Cochrane’s Knowledge Translation Advisory Group.