We are delighted that some of you could join us for the launch of the Institute for EvidenceBased Healthcare. The transition from Centre to Institute will give us greater ability to provide advisory services that will help people think about ways to provide sustainable, evidencebased healthcare, and how research can better inform policy and practice. The transition will also help us to increase our impact, partnerships and translational project opportunities in addition to the development of new educational programs, such as the Master of Healthcare Innovations. Being the first of its kind in Australia, the new Master’s targets a diverse cohort of health professionals, who want to be systems thinkers and problem solvers while using research-based evidence to deliver value and high-quality healthcare in the 21st century. Our Institute brochure shares some patient experiences and highlights significant healthcare challenges we are all facing, it also provides some solutions and directions where we can work together to provide sustainable, evidence-based healthcare. Thank you for being a part of this launch with us, and we look forward to continuing working with you and new partners, to improve healthcare here in Australia and globally. Warm regards,
Prof. Paul Glasziou iebh.bond.edu.au Subscribe to our newsletter
Ginny Barbour Director: Australasian Open Access Strategy Group (AOASG); Office of Research Ethics and Integrity and Library, QUT
Virginia (Ginny) Barbour has a part time
Ethics (COPE) from 2012-May 2017. She has
position joint between the Office of
a medical degree from Cambridge
Research Ethics & Integrity and the Division
University, and a DPhil from the University
of Technology, Information and Learning
of Oxford. She has been involved in the
Services at Queensland University of
development of a number of reporting
Technology (QUT). She is Director of the
guidelines including CONSORT, PRISMA and
Australasian Open Access Strategy Group,
TIDieR statements. She has been and is
a position she has held since 2015.
currently involved with a number of Open Access, publishing, and ethics initiatives
In 2004, she was one of the three founding
including HIFA and Evidence AID. She
editors of PLOS Medicine. She then became
writes for the Conversation and other
Chief Editor of PLOS Medicine, and then
general interest sites such as The Ethics
Medicine Editorial Director, finally
Centre. She is on the NHMRC’s Research
becoming Medicine and Biology Editorial
Quality Steering Committee. Part of her
Director of PLOS from 2014 until 2015. She
role at QUT is providing training in integrity
was Chair of the Committee on Publication
and publishing innovation.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The problems caused by waste in the research process from initial conception through to publication and beyond, and the opportunities we have now with new approaches and technologies to not only reduce waste in research but also to rethink the whole process.
Ray Moynihan Assistant Professor Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare
Ray recently won a prestigious NHMRC Early Career Fellowship and is a chief investigator within the NHMRC-funded Wiser Healthcare research collaboration for reducing overdiagnosis. A former award-winning journalist, Ray’s worked at ABC’s Four Corners, 7:30 Report, and
Australian Financial Review, and written 4 books on the business of medicine, including “Selling Sickness”, translated into 12 languages. A one-time Harkness fellow at Harvard University, Ray’s published in the NEJM, Lancet and BMJ, and currently presents The Recommended Dose podcast, produced by Cochrane Australia.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The Institute’s innovative work on the problem of too much medicine, with a focus on the big health challenge of overdiagnosis. The Institute is a world leader in research on overdiagnosis, which happens when people receive unnecessary diagnoses, causing them harm, wasting resources and threatening the very sustainability of health systems, Ray discussed some key research findings, some national and global collaborations, and future plans to try and wind back the harm of too much medicine.
CO NTR AC T AN D ADVISO RY SERVICES Our work covers a wide range of services, programs and activities that address big, neglected problems in healthcare. The Institute delivers world-class research, engagement and training and serves as a national and international resource for health system leaders, industry partners, scholars, clinicians, patients and families in the implementation of evidence-based clinical care.
EVIDENCE CHECKS Accelerated automated systematic reviews that provide a concise summary of evidence to answer specific questions
CONTRACT RESEARCH Research support services, expert panel review of research proposals and evidence review of treatments
ADVISORY SERVICES Evidence-based practice advice to inform health service planning, reviews of guidelines and policies
RESEARCH AND TRANSLATION Coaching and support services to develop and deliver research translation projects
SHARED DECISION MAKING Developing and testing decision aids for patients and clinicians
CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT Facilitating community juries and consultations to help inform decisions and service planning
MINIMISING LOW VALUE CARE
REDUCING OVERDIAGNOSIS AND OVERTREATMENT
EDUCATION Tailoring education services to build research capacity and healthcare innovation
Preventing unnecessary treatments, maximising the use of non-drug interventions and deprescribing at the end of life
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Reducing unnecessary screening and testing and implementing evidence-based practice