Date: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Time: 11am – 3pm (AEDT), 8am – 12pm (Perth), 1pm – 5pm (NZ)
Theme: Celebrating Health Services Research
The event was a celebration of Health Services Research and specifically its role in promoting health equity. We heard from Health Services Research Funders from Australia and New Zealand on new decision-making models for achieving health equity. Our keynote Speakers Professor Don Nutbeam and Dr Amohia Boulton continued the health equity theme. Professor Nutbeam discussed "Observing or engaging – the contribution of health services research in tackling health inequalities" and Dr Boulton presented on her HRC Programme Grant "Kia puawai ake ngā uri whakatupu: flourishing future generations".
Key Note Presentations -
Prof Anne Kelso - "NHMRC funding of HSR"
Prof Don Nutbean - "Observing or engaging - the contribution of HSR in tackling health inequalities"
Dr Amohia Boulton - "Equity and Recent Program Grant Success "Kia puawai ake nga uri whakatupa: flourishing future generation
Optional Lunch Session on the HSRAANZ Mentoring Program
During the lunch break (12-12.45pm) we held an optional information session on the HSRAANZ Mentoring Program.
HSRAANZ Awards
In the afternoon we celebrated the 2021 Award winners, including the winner of our Infographics Competition.
Award Winner Presentations
Gorham, G., Howard, K., Cunningham, J. et al. Do remote dialysis services really cost more? An economic analysis of hospital and dialysis modality costs associated with dialysis services in urban, rural and remote settings. BMC Health Serv Res 21, 582 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06612-z
Hikaka Joanna, Jones Rhys, Hughes Carmel, Connolly Martin J., Martini Nataly (2021) Utilising te Tiriti o Waitangi to approach health intervention development and research: pharmacist-facilitated medicines review interventions for Māori older adults. Journal of Primary Health Care 13, 124-131.
Haskell L, Tavender EJ, Wilson CL, O'Brien S, Babl FE, Borland ML, Cotterell E, Schembri R, Orsini F, Sheridan N, Johnson DW, Oakley E, Dalziel SR; PREDICT Network. Effectiveness of Targeted Interventions on Treatment of Infants With Bronchiolitis: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2021 Aug 1;175(8):797-806. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.0295. PMID: 33843971; PMCID: PMC8042564.
Hickey S, Roe Y, Harvey C, Kruske S, Clifford-Motopi A, Fisher I, Bernardino B, Kildea S. Community-Based Sexual and Reproductive Health Promotion and Services for First Nations People in Urban Australia. Int J Womens Health. 2021 May 18;13:467-478. doi: 10.2147/IJWH.S297479. PMID: 34040455; PMCID: PMC8140890.
HSRAANZ Annual General Meeting
We ended the day with the HSRAANZ Annual General Meeting.
Don Nutbeam is the Executive Director of Sydney Health Partners and a Professor of Public Health at the University of Sydney. Sydney Health Partners is a NHMRC accredited Advanced Health and Research Translation Centre (https://sydneyhealthpartners.org.au/). Don Nutbeam’s career has spanned senior leadership positions in universities, government, health services and international organisations including WHO and the World Bank. He was formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton, UK, Provost of the University of Sydney, and Head of Public Health for the UK Government. He is a public health scientist with research interests in the social and behavioural determinants of health, and in the development and evaluation of public health interventions. His current research focusses on the development and testing of interventions to improve health literacy in different populations.
Dr Amohia Bolton, Research Centre Director at Whakaue Research for Māori Health & Development
Dr Amohia Bolton is the Research Director at Whakaue Research for Māori Health & Development with a career that has spanned public policy and academia. She has previously worked as a data analyst (Ministry of Education) policy analyst, senior analyst (Te Puni Kōkiri) and Private Secretary (Māori Affairs) and was awarded an HRC Māori Health Training Fellowship to pursue doctoral study at Massey University in Palmerston North. Her post-doctoral research took her to the University of Northern British Columbia in Canada where she worked with the Lheidli T'enneh First Nations people.
Her research interests are in the fields of Māori health and mental health services, health governance, health reform, and the interface between health policy and service-level implementation. Her work to date has involved a number of evaluations of health systems and health services, including being a Principal Investigator on the Health Reforms 2001 Research Project, (a five year, HRC-funded evaluation) and, more recently the Evaluation of Multisystemic Therapy Alcohol and other Drug Services for the Hutt Valley District Health Board.
Amohia is currently a member of the Māori Health Committee of the Health Research Council of New Zealand and an Executive Member of the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand.
Chairs
Professor Rachael Morton, Director, Health Economics & Health Technology Assessment- NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre. HSRAANZ President
Professor Anne Kelso AO Chief Executive Officer, NHMRC.
Luke Garland, Health Research Council Research Investment Manager
Dr Masha Somi Chief Executive Officer, Health and Medical Research Office (HMRO), Commonwealth Department of Health. The Health and Medical Research Office provides strategic oversight of investments from the Medical Research Future Fund.