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October 2017
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Just 7 weeks to go - will you be part of the conversation?
The SPHERE 2017 International Symposium will bring together:
* Thought leaders
* Policy makers
* Researchers and
* Innovators
from all over the world, united in their commitment to improve health and wellbeing. The Symposium will create the right environment for you to:
* Exchange ideas
* Make international connections
* Gain new insights, and a
* Completely different perspective to a health problem or issue.
Make sure you are part of the robust conversations that will take place at this inaugural event, proudly hosted by The Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE), Maridulu Budyari Gumal.
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Four Key Focus Areas:
The Symposium has something for everyone, with four key focus areas:
1) Innovation in Healthcare
2) Policy: Beyond the Squeaky Wheel
3) Inside Outside: Health and the Built Environment
4) Public and Patient Involvement - Are We Listening? featured below
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Featured in this edition - Public and Patient Involvement - Are We Listening?
The
value of public and patient involvement (PPI) in the design and conduct of
health research and healthcare delivery, is being increasingly recognised as an
important ‘success enabler’ by governments, health services, research funders,
translational researchers and the broader community. Although many clinicians,
managers, policy makers and researchers are well aware of ‘patient centred
care’ as a guiding principle and the health consumer viewpoint of ‘nothing
about me without me’, the risk is that lip-service only could be paid to PPI
and cultural change within both the research and healthcare communities may be
minimal and slow.
This
session will explore the value and the challenges in delivering high quality PPI
across both the research and the healthcare sectors. The session commences
pre-lunch with ‘the patient and public perspective’. Leading consumer advocates
and experts in PPI across a variety of domains will speak on the evidence
supporting PPI and strategies to enhance PPI in identification of research priority
areas, in research study design, in evaluation and roll-out of research
outcomes and in health systems design.
Post-lunch
the recently formed Australian Health Research Alliance (AHRA - Chair, Prof Helena Teede photo right), an Alliance of the
seven NHMRC accredited Advanced Health Research and Translation Centres (AHRTC)
and the two NHMRC accredited Centres for Innovation in Regional Health (CIRH),
will present a national vision for the AHRA broadly and for the AHRA program to
enhance PPI in research across Australia.
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Symposium Program
Read more about our full line up of distinguished Symposium Speakers here.
View a full copy of the Symposium Program here.
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Registration
Your registration will include all sessions and meals (arrival tea, morning tea and lunch) on the two full days of the Symposium, Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 November, as well as the Networking Cocktail Event at the end of day one.
Registration Prices
Business/Government/University - $770 incl GST
NGOs/Community/Students - $330 incl GST
Register Now!
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Via Art
Art is many things to every culture. In the words of Ellen Dissanayake:
“Art is a normal and necessary behaviour of human beings and like other common and universal occupations such as talking, working, exercising, playing, socializing, learning, loving, and caring, should be recognized, encouraged and developed in everyone. Via art, experience is heightened, elevated, made more memorable and significant.”
SPHERE 2017's Via Art will focus on multisensory, interactive and participatory artworks to support and complement the Symposium program. Composer and audiovisual experimentalist Dr Robin Fox, artist and musician with a doctorate of psychology Dr Michaela Davies, along with performers from NIDA will deliver world class premiere performances intertwined with the Symposium proceedings.
Dr George Khut’s Mobile Mood Lab and 'Soundscape' by Lightwell can also be experienced.
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Interested in Receiving Further Information?
If you have been forwarded this email and would like to receive future information about the SPHERE 2017 International Symposium, please click here to register your details and we shall send you further information directly.
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We look forward to meeting you at the Symposium.
The SPHERE 2017 International Symposium
Steering Committee
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We would like to thank our Partners for their generous
support of the SPHERE 2017 International Symposium
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Diamond Partner:
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