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Getting Better with Evidence: Experiences of putting evidence into practice
10 December 2019
Grafton Campus, University of Auckland

 

Co-hosted by the Health Quality & Safety Commission, the University of Auckland, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. ‘Getting better with evidence: Experiences of putting evidence into practice’ is a one-day conference where delegates can learn from experts about putting evidence into practice, and discuss the challenges currently being faced in health care.

 

This is a New Zealand first, bringing the internationally acclaimed EBMLive to Auckland.

 

The conference will have three themes:

1. Gathering and disseminating better evidence

2. Translating evidence into action

3. Building solutions, the roles of big data, randomised control trials (RCTs) and realworld

evidence

 

The programme will include keynote presentations and concurrent workshops, delivered by leading international and local experts, with a focus on the needs of the New Zealand audience, including increasing equity and addressing over-diagnosis and over-treatment.

 

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

• Fiona Godlee, editor-in-chief, BMJ (UK)

• Catherine Marshall, independent health and guideline adviser and consumer advocate (NZ)

• Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine and a practising GP (UK)

• Ray Moynihan, academic researcher, author and award-winning health journalist (Australia)

• Professor Papaarangi Reid, head of department of Māori health, faculty of medical and health sciences, University of Auckland

• Professor Matthew Parsons, professor in gerontology, Waikato DHB and the University of Auckland

• Professor Cindy Farquhar CNZM, postgraduate professor of obstetrics and gynaecology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Auckland

• Associate Professor Rachael Parke, school of nursing, University of Auckland

 

Registration OPEN - All prices are in New Zealand dollars and are GST inclusive.

Earlybird (until 1 November 2019) - Standard (from 2 November 2019)

Full registration $320 including GST increasing to $375 including GST

Student/consumer/charities $260 including GST increasing to $300 including GST