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Welcome to the TAAHC Webinar series for 2024!
On the last Wednesday of each month, join us for an engaging hour to learn about the research being conducted in our patch and by our northern colleagues or learn new research skills.
The TAAHC Webinar Series aims to create connections between clinician scientists (of all disciplines), academic health researchers and clinicians who are interested in research (but not sure where to start).
You can view recordings of our webinars and skills sessions on the TAAHC Youtube channel.
Join us for our 2024 Webinars!
28 February 2024, 1pm - 2pm AEST
Writing up research to publish
In this episode, learn how to conquer what can be a crushing and overwhelming feeling of 'where do I start" when you are writing up your research to publish!!! Please join Rae Thomas, Denise Craig, Allison Hempenstall, and Melissa Crowe to learn about what are the important components of a research article and how these flow together. Hear from the panel about the tips and tricks that helped them write up their research while being busy clinicians.
27 March 2024, 1pm-2pm AEST
Conducting clinical trials in northern Queensland - how to hear about them, conduct them, and get support.
Join us for this month’s webinar exploring the challenges and opportunities of conducting clinical trials in regional, rural, and remote northern Queensland. Gain insights from people who set up, conduct, and support these trials daily. Unlock the potential of extending clinical trial research to underserved communities.
24 April, 2024 1pm - 2pm AEST
Health Economics: What is it and why is it important
In month’s webinar learn about the types of questions health economics can answer and key health economics concepts like efficiency, scarcity, and opportunity costs. This webinar will also introduce the main types of economic evaluations used in healthcare decision making, including cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis. More broadly, this webinar will also look at why health economics is increasingly important in today’s healthcare landscape and how it can help drive value in healthcare.
29 May, 2024 1pm - 2pm AEST
Improving Heart Health Checks: A decade of codesign and partnerships
In this month’s webinar hear how Carissa Bonner’s small qualitative project in her PhD grew into a decade long program of research to improve Heart Health Checks. Using a codesign approach with key stakeholders, she developed a series of decision making tools to support health professionals, patients with low health literacy, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. These tools were implemented through GP and Primary Health Network programs and integrated into new clinical guidelines in 2023. Working in partnerships with key stakeholders was a strong focus of this program of work. Now an Associate Professor, join Carissa to learn how she grew a small research idea into a large program of research.
26 June, 2024 1pm - 2pm AEST
Different ways to partner with communities in research
In this month’s webinar hear Catherine Wilkes, Karen Johnston, Deb Smith and Rae Thomas discuss different ways they have engaged communities in their research. Hear how Karen and Deb together with Catherine, a community member on the project team, partnered with remote communities in northern Queensland to conduct a place-based approach to health planning. Rae has used a technique known as Citizen/Community Juries to try and inform the development of clinical guidelines and policy decisions. Learn how these techniques or their variations can help you involve communities and consumers in research.
31 July, 2024 1pm - 2pm AEST
How to appraise a systematic review and interpret a forest plot.
It is nearly impossible to keep up with relevant research in a clinical field. Systematic reviews are a synthesis of original research articles and the highest level of evidence for focussed health-related, research questions. In this month's webinar join Rae Thomas to learn a quick way to appraise systematic reviews and decipher a forest plot that is generated from a meta-analysis.