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"Creating impact - Moving beyond the hospital walls"
with Professors Annette Boaz (UK) and Harriet Hiscock (Australia).
While effective healthcare can help us treat and manage disease, how do practitioners and the system deal with wider factors that influence our health? Social determinants like where we live, our level of education, how wealthy we are, what job we do, whether we speak English well?
In this webinar, we hear how healthcare and social care professionals, leaders and researchers can come together to tackle these complex issues of health and care. Our speakers bring extensive real-world experience in identifying problems, prioritising needs, finding and implementing solutions, adapting to local context, measuring impact and learning from what is done.
Facilitating discussion is researcher and health implementation scientist Associate Professor Stephanie Best, from The University of Melbourne.
Speakers
Professor Annette Boaz
King's College London
Annette has more than 25 years of experience in supporting the use of evidence across a range of policy domains. She was part of one of the largest UK investments in the evidence use landscape, the ESRC Centre for Evidence Based Policy and Practice and was a Founding Editor of the Journal Evidence & Policy. She has undertaken an international leadership role in promoting the use of evidence, recently publishing a new book on evidence use What Works Now and co-leading Transforming Evidence with Kathryn Oliver. She is a member of the WHO European Advisory Committee on Health Research and advises WHO on a number of international projects. She has recently completed a fellowship based in the UK Government Office for Science.
Professor Harriet Hiscock
University of Melbourne & Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI)
Harriet is a paediatrician and health services researcher with 25 years’ experience leading research to better understand patterns of healthcare use in children: who gets access to care and who misses out, and how to improve access to safe, equitable care. Her work spans data-linkage studies, randomised controlled trials, and health services research across community, primary, secondary and tertiary health settings. Harriet has led more than 15 trials to reduce the burden of common, high impact conditions. This work focuses on building models of care to keep children out of hospital and improve equitable access to evidence-based care. Harriet was inaugural Director of the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne’s Health Services Research Unit and now co-leads the Health Services and Economics group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI). As inaugural Academic Lead in Health Transformation at The University of Melbourne, she is leading a multidisciplinary team establishing projects to reduce healthcare system bottlenecks and improve access to safe, evidence-based care.
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