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On behalf of the Program Committee, we are pleased to announce the HSR 2022 Program. 

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Program Schedule

We are putting together an exciting program of speakers under the theme of Resilience, Innovation and Value through Research. Our keynote and plenary speakers will bring national and international perspectives on major issues in health services research, and we look forward to putting together a diverse program of high quality presentations selected from abstract submissions. Delegates will hear from health policy makers and health services research funders, and early career researchers will have access to a stimulating program to promote professional networks and create opportunities to share their work.

And finally, after many months of professional interaction through a computer screen, we will be doing everything possible to offer our delegates a high quality face to face networking experience within the HSR2022 program.


Katherine Harding
Principal Research Fellow Allied Health Clinical Research Office,
La Trobe University / Eastern Health Chair, Scientific Committee,
12th Health Services Research Conference

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

Day 1

Connecting policy makers and health services researchers to build resilient health systems in COVID-19: Three international perspectives: After three tumultuous years, involving a global pandemic, fires and floods, what do we need to build resilient health services? How can policy makers and researchers work together to provide and use the evidence we need to inform policy decisions? What can health services researchers do to make their findings meaningful and accessible, and what can we learn from the pandemic experience? This plenary session brings together international experts who found themselves at the nexus between evidence generation and the policy response, as nations grappled with the most significant pandemic years the world has faced in 100 years. Professor Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford), Professor Adalsteinn Brown, (Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto) and Dr Jean-Frederic Levesque, Agency for Clinical Innovation, NSW will present perspectives from three different parts of the world on the interaction between research and policy, for better or worse, during these challenging times and the lessons we can take for the future.

Day 2

Innovation through bridging worlds:  Some of the best innovations in healthcare comes from bringing people together, and many of our failures come from operating in silos. This session explores how building bridges between diverse worlds, including researchers, policy makers, health providers, and consumers, can provide innovative opportunities. To open this session, Associate Professor Sara Kreindler, Research Chair in System Innovation at the University of Manitoba will share her experiences in tackling system-level issues in the provision of healthcare, incorporating both stories of innovation and tales of caution in building bridges between evidence generators and policy makers. 

Dr Kim O’Donnell (Flinders University, Adelaide) and Associate Professor Vicki Palmer (University of Melbourne) will follow with two case studies of innovation through bridging worlds between researchers and consumers. Dr O’Donnell is a Barkindji/Malyangapa woman from far Western NSW, and a Senior Researcher, Aboriginal Health Care Research, at the University of Adelaide and will speak about her work with the Aboriginal Kidney Care – Improving Outcomes Now (AKction) project. primary health settings. Victoria Palmer is Professor of Primary Care Mental Health & Co-Design in the Department of General Practice, Melbourne Medical School, and will bring insights from her experience in co-design in mental health research.

Day 3

Exploring value in healthcare: What do we mean by value in the delivery of health services, and how do we achieve it? Health economists Professor Stirling Bryan (University of British Columbia), Professor Steven McPhail (Queensland University of Technology) and Associate Professor Penny Reeves (Hunter Medical Research Institute) will delve into these questions and more to open the final day of the conference.

Stirling Bryan is a health economist with a passion for building and supporting patient-oriented learning health systems. He is the Chief Scientific Officer at Michael Smith Health Research British Columbia, and a professor in UBC’s School of Population & Public Health. His presentation will focus on patient-oriented learning health system approaches to drive value in health care, and feature a case study of a patient-orientated learning health system in British Columbia, that aimed to drive greater value in the care of people who live their lives with major depression.

Professor McPhail will explore opportunities for increasing value in healthcare through digital health, and Assoc Professor Reeves will wrap up the session by sharing outcomes from the Embedded Economist project; an innovative approach to improving value in healthcare by bringing health economists to the frontline of healthcare delivery.  

panel  discussions

Funding for health services research: Past, present and future:  Few health services researchers can avoid the inevitable question of where the money for the next project will come from. In this panel discussion, leaders of four national organisations funding health services research including Anne Kelso (National Health and Medical Research Council), Masha Somi (Medical Research Future Fund), and Chris Pettigrew (HCF Foundation) and Luke Garland (the Health Research Council of New Zealand), will discuss the roles of their organisations and answer your questions in relation to the funding of health services research.

FEATURED RESEARCH 

After morning tea on day 2, we are delighted to present three sessions proudly supported by organisations that have partnered with us to bring this event to fruition. 

HCF Research Foundation Showcase

The HCF Research Foundation is a key supporter of the Health Service Research Conference, and a generous funder of health services research in Australia. In a dedicated stream, leading researchers will present a selection of high quality projects that have been made possible through the support of the HCF Foundation. Presenters include:

  • Frank M Sanfilippo: Invasive coronary angiography in unselected patients presenting with chest pain to emergency departments in Western Australian teaching hospitals,
  • Professor Ilana Ackerman: Short-stay joint replacement models of care in Australia
  • Dr Sarah Kourouche: A multicentre controlled implementation evaluation of a blunt chest injury care bundle (ChIP)
  • Lincoln Tracy:  Using clinical registry data to improve outcomes in burns patients

INSIGHT University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Health

Multidisciplinary Collaboration to solve wicked problems in health: This panel session will invite research leaders from the UTS Research Institute for Innovative Solutions for Wellbeing and Health (INSIGHT) to share their experiences of multidisciplinary research that has been translated into policy and practice in the home, the community, health services and at the population level. We will explore how research has engaged consumers and industry partners to deliver meaningful solutions that harness a range of technologies and methodologies that are tailored to unique settings and address health inequity. This panel will discuss our current and future research challenges and the urgent need to focus on adaptive health systems that are connected across sectors, featuring:

  • Prof David Brown: Chair of Panel Discussion
  • Prof Angela Dawson: Climate Change and Global Health
  • Prof Deborah Parker: Ageing
  • Prof Rosalie Viney: Health Economics
  • Dr Tim Luckett: Palliative Care

Optimising co-design in health services interventions 

Co-design has increasingly been adopted to create health service change, with applications across a broad range of health settings including mental health, oncology, critical care and more. There has been a surge of interest in using co-design methodology to create change proposals, yet there are gaps in knowledge regarding approaches to co-design with populations who have complex care needs including those with intellectual disability, children and young people, and those from CALD backgrounds. This symposium presented  by Reema Harrison (Macquarie University) and Laurel Mimmo (University Of New South Wales/the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network), aims to address contemporary issues in health services co-design with practical, evidence-based examples from our collective co-design projects in Australian healthcare settings and includes two consumer perspectives:

  • Mrs Nyan Thit Tieu migrated to Australia from Burma in 1977 and has since resided in Wollongong. After cancer treatment in 2013, Thit founded “Sisters’ Cancer Support Group Inc.” (SCSG) a registered not-for-profit community based organization. SCSG supports women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD) who are effected by cancer.
  • Dalal Baumgartner is the Founder and Principle Director of the SatB2 Gene Foundation Australia, established to enrich the lives of individuals with SATB2-associated syndrome, including those diagnosed with the condition and their families, through support, research and education.

We are grateful to Bellberry Limited for their support of this session, as one of several initiatives to enhance the participation of consumers in our HSR 2022 conference program.

ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Concurrent streams of presentations selected from hundreds of submitted abstracts will be integrated throughout the conference to showcase the breadth of health services research. This is your opportunity to hear the latest research and meet others working in your field of interest.

EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS PROGRAM

Getting started on a research career can be hard going, but at HSR 2022 we have a great program of activities dedicated to helping ECRs disseminate their work and expand their networks:

  • 3MT (Three minute thesis) competition

The 3MT competition is a regular highlight of the Health Services Research Conference. This entertaining event features the work of early career health services researchers and PhD students, laying down the challenge to share their work in 3 minutes in a quest to be judged the best presentation by our esteemed panel of adjudicators, or take out the “People’s Choice” award by popular vote.

  • Speed Mentoring

Our speed mentoring session will give ECRs a chance to break the ice with a series of brief conversations with established researchers. Come along to gain a quick insight into the work of others further along their career journey, or ask a burning question about career paths, academic life, breaking glass ceilings or whatever else pops into your head and continue your unfinished conversations over coffee throughout the conference.

  • ECR Social event

There will be a dedicated social event just for ECRs on the first night of the conference – the perfect way to make new friends and expand your professional networks.


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