Theme: “Health Services Researchers: partners for COVID-19 response and recovery”

This half-day event showcased how Australia and New Zealand’s health services researchers are at the forefront of the health system response to the COVID 19 pandemic. Health services researchers are working alongside clinicians, managers and policymakers providing evidence to tackle the immediate impact and longer term health, social and economic fallout from the pandemic; and ensuring that the lessons learned will help future proof our health systems.

For ease the recording of the event has been split into 5 parts:

Welcome and Invited Speaker - Professor Kathy Eagar 'Aged Care Homes: the Weakest COVID-19 Link"

Telehealth and Primary Care

Discrete Choice and Preference Studies 

Models of Care and Genomics

Summary and Discussion

EVENT DETAILS

Invited Speaker - Professor Kathy Eagar

Professor Kathy Eagar
Professor of Health Services Research and Director of the Australian Health Services Research Institute (AHSRI) at the University of Wollongong.

AGED CARE HOMES: THE WEAKEST COVID-19 LINK 

A pandemic throws a perfect mirror onto a society and shines a light on every crack.  There is no better illustration of this than the light that COVID-19 has thrown on aged care homes in Australia and internationally. By November 2020, Australia has had ~28,000 COVID cases and 907 deaths. Less than 1% of Australians live in residential aged care. Yet residential aged care currently accounts for 7% of cases and 76% of all COVID-19 deaths. This presentation will focus on the impact of COVID-19 on residential aged care, explore key causal factors and identify implications for policy and practice including the interface between the health and aged care sectors.

EVENT PROGRAM

 Time   Presenter Title
10.00 – 10.10 Welcome
10.10 – 10.25 Invited Speaker Kathy Eagar, Professor of Health Services Research & Director of the Australian Health Services Research Institute (AHSRI,) University of Wollongong Australia. Aged care homes: the weakest COVID-19 link
10.25 – 10.30 Questions
  Telehealth and Primary Care
10.30 – 10.40 Oral 1 Jodi Gray, Health Services Researcher,Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI), Flinders University What COVID-19 has told us about alternatives to ED Care
10.40 – 10.50 Oral 2 Jackie Cumming, Consultant Advisor, Victoria University, Wellington Patients’ experiences of telehealth during COVID-19 lockdown in Aotearoa/New Zealand
10.50 – 11.00 Oral 3 Kate Caroll, Research Physiotherapists & Honorary Research Fellow, The Children’s Hospital & Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Perceptions of telehealth in a multidisciplinary paediatric neuromuscular clinic
11.00-11.10 Oral 4 Andrew Georgiou, Professor Diagnostic Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University Enhancing primary care policy & practice through the utilisation of near-real time electronic general practice data
11.10 -11.20 BREAK
  Discrete Choice and Preference Studies
11.20- 11.30 Oral 5 Gang Chen, A/Professor (Research) Monash University Changes in public preferences for technologically-enhanced surveillance following COVID-19.
11.30-11.40 Oral 6 Deborah Street, Professor Centre for Health Economics Research & Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney Who gets the last intensive care unit bed?
11.40-11.50 Oral 7 Kathleen Manipis, PhD Student & Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics Research & Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney Estimating preferences for infectious disease control during a pandemic
11.50-12.00 Oral 8 Lisa Hall, A/Professor in Epidemiology, University of Queensland Managing low-risk neutropenia in children in the time of COVID-19: What matters to parents & clinicians
12.00-12.10 BREAK
  Models of Care and Genomics
12.10–12.20 Oral 9 Carolyn Der Vartanian, Cancer Australia COVID-10 recovery: Implications for Cancer Care
12.20-12.30 Oral 10 Marissa Dickins, Research Fellow, Bolton Clarke Research Institute Helping Others with Respect & Unity (How-R-U?):  Telephone Support during the Covid-19 Pandemic
12.30-12.40 Oral 11 Rebecca Jessup, Allied Health Research Lead, Northern Health How do consumers find, interpret & apply health information during a pandemic & how has this influenced their health seeking behaviours?
12.40-12.50 Oral 12 Angeline Ferdinand, Postdoctorate Research Fellow, The Doherty Institute for Infection & Immunity, University of Melbourne Lessons from COVID-19 on pandemic preparedness in pathogen genomics.
12.50-01.00 Oral 13 Mary White, Research Officer/Paediatric Endocrinologist, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute A COVID related opportunity to improve clinical efficiency & attendance.
01.00-01.20 Discussion

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