Evidence in Healthcare Reform

Programme: Evidence in Healthcare Reform

Thursday 4 July, 9am-5pm
9 -10.15am Should equity come last after effectiveness and efficiency in healthcare policy and planning? Sridhar Venkatapuram
10.15-10.30am BREAK
10.30-11.45am Hollow Hunt for Harms Jacob Stegenga, University of Utah
11.45am-12pm BREAK
12-1.15pm Preventative Medicine, Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment: Challenges for Measuring Effectiveness of Medical Interventions Anya Plutinski, University of Washington
1.15-2.15pm LUNCH
2.15-3.30pm What’s Missing from ‘What Works’ Nancy Cartwright
3.30-3.45pm BREAK
3.45-5pm Healthcare workshop: ‘Ideology and evidence: social determinants of health’, Michael Marmot

In the evening there will be a dinner arranged by the Brocher Foundation.

Friday 5 July, 9am-2pm
9-10.15am Effectiveness, efficiency and equity: old concepts, new context?
Alfredo Morabia, Columbia and CUNY
10.15-10.30am BREAK
10.30-11.45am Politicising Evidence for Public Health Decision-making – Towards a Good Governance of Evidence Justin Parkhurst, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
11.45am-12pm BREAK
12-1.15pm What Makes Evidence Useful? Alex Broadbent, University of Johannesburg
1.15-2pm LUNCH