Public Event
Too Much Medicine: what’s the problem and how do we fix it”
Along with medicine’s celebrated ability to heal the sick, there is growing global unease about its capacity to harm the healthy. Around the world there is increasing evidence that when it comes to healthcare, we are too often getting too much of a good thing. [...]
Sydney Ideas – Is too much testing and treatment making us sick?
Lecture Theatre 4002 (Messel) Sydney Nanoscience Hub, Physics Rd, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaPanel discussion with audience Q&A on the topic of Wiser Healthcare Co-presented with the Sydney School of Public Health We all want to be able to get good healthcare when we need it. But what would it mean to provide and consume healthcare wisely? This [...]
New Frontiers in Health Literacy Research Symposium 2018 – Sydney
Charles Perkins Centre Lecture Theatre John Hopkins Drive (off Missenden Rd), University of Sydney, NSWSydney Health Literacy Lab will be hosting the New Frontiers in Health Literacy Research Symposium in Sydney on Tuesday 4 December 2018. Bringing together some of the world’s leading experts in health literacy (including Prof Michael Paasche-Orlow, Boston University School of Medicine, Prof Richard Osborne, Centre for [...]
Precision medicine: can it live up to the hype?
Charles Perkins Centre Auditorium John Hopkins Drive (off Missenden Road), University of Sydney, NSWPrecision medicine: can it live up to the hype? The promise of treatments based on people's genetic profiles Join us as world-renowned thinkers explore some of the key issues around precision medicine. We analyse the realities of disease prediction, economics, ethics, clinical applications and the [...]
International Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference – 2020 Webinar Event
ZoomLearning from the pandemic: Can COVID-19 help us build a better healthcare system? The Asia-Pacific, and final, PODC webinar for 2020 is hosted by PODC partner Wiser Healthcare. This webinar will focus on system impacts of COVID-19 and potential future implications for the healthcare system, addressing these [...]
BOOK LAUNCH – Magnolia Cardona & Ebony Lewis – When the Time Comes
ZoomWHEN THE TIME COMES: STORIES FROM THE END OF LIFE IN CONVERSATION WITH PROF. ALEX BARRATT Magnolia Cardona PhD What do we want for ourselves and our loved ones, ‘when the time comes’? Jointly written, collected and curated by a doctor and nurse working in [...]
FIRST, DO NO HARM: The Perils of Too Much Medicine and How We Can Tackle It
ZoomWiser Healthcare presents this powerful livestreamed discussion with globally respected doctors on the perils of too much medicine. Wiser Healthcare's Dr Ray Moynihan, from Bond University, will moderate conversations with Professors Rachelle Buchbinder and Ian Harris, speaking on their explosive new book "Hippocrasy: how [...]