During a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Google+ Hangout, Susan Dentzer, senior policy adviser to the Foundation, led a discussion on how improving a community’s ability to respond to disaster can improve community health. Panelists discussed how preparing for disaster with a direct focus on health can build resiliency in communities.
Champion of public health law research, Professor Scott Burris of Temple University in the US, says public health law has achieved some of the greatest health gains of the 20th Century, but there is little empirical research internationally into the outcomes and unintended consequences of the law. Professor Burris spoke … Continue reading
This video from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care discusses the findings of a recent report that highlighted variation across Australia in arthroscopy and total knee replacement.
In this HARC Five Questions video we speak to Ms Leslee Thompson, President and CEO of Accreditation Canada and Accreditation Canada International, who argues that the whole process of healthcare accreditation and standards setting needs major disruption if it is going to be truly valuable in driving measurable improvements in … Continue reading
International data and system science expert Professor Nate Osgood describes how the tremendous volume of data being collected from social media, environmental sensors, lab tests, smartphones and browsing patterns is providing vital insights into real-life human behaviour. And how it’s transforming the modelling of public health interventions.
Associate Professor Jennifer DeVoe discusses practice based research networks, population health analytics and linked data for quality at a HARC-CPHCE sponsored symposium exploring the concept of the Patient-Centred Medical Home (PCMH).
Cambridge University epidemiologist Dr David Ogilvie was keynote speaker at a seminar on 17 March 2016 jointly hosted by The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, the Prevention Research Collaboration and the Sax Institute. Dr Ogilvie, who spoke about his work on evaluating large-scale urban infrastructure projects in the UK, said such … Continue reading
Associate Professor Jennifer DeVoe discusses practice based research networks, population health analytics and linked data for quality at a HARC-CPHCE sponsored symposium exploring the concept of the Patient-Centred Medical Home.
In this video, Medical Journal of Australia‘s news and online editor Cate Swannell interviews Professor Rob Moodie from the University of Melbourne and Jane Martin, executive manager of the Obesity Policy Coalition, about Australia’s chronic disease prevention policies.
This playlist from the NSW Ministry of Health features presentations from a workshop held in late 2015 which explored the role of translation in achieving the vision for NSW health and medical research.
