NOVEMBER 1&2
BMA HOUSE
LONDON
Implementing cost-effective change based on evidence is the key challenge for health systems around the world.
The aims of the conference are to:
- Improve evidence-based decision making
- Develop ideas for using evidence in practice
- Foster effective innovation
- Guide efficient commissioning
- Provide education and training to improve evidence-based healthcare
VENUE: BMA HOUSE, LONDON
Key speakers include
Sir Iain Chalmers
James Lind Initiative, Oxford, UK
Sir Iain Chalmers is a British health services researcher who qualified in medicine in the mid 1960s. After working as a clinician for seven years in the UK and the Gaza Strip, he directed the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit between 1978 and 1992. He was one of the founders of the Cochrane Collaboration, and director of the UK Cochrane Centre between 1992 and 2002.
Iain Chalmers is currently coordinator of the James Lind Initiative, which has established the UK Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments; the James Lind Alliance, which promotes joint research priority setting by patients and clinicians; and the James Lind Library, which explains fair tests of treatments and documents their evolution.
Ben Goldacre
Award winning writer, medical broadcaster and medical doctor
Ben is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and medical doctor who specialises in unpicking dodgy scientific claims made by scaremongering journalists, dodgy government reports, evil pharmaceutical corporations, PR companies and quacks.
He has written the weekly Bad Science column in the Guardian since 2003. It’s archived on this site along with blogposts, columns for the British Medical Journal, and other stuff.
“Bad Science” the book (4th Estate) has sold 240,000 copies, reached #1 in the paperback non-fiction charts, and is being published in 18 countries.
Ben has won various awards, including the Royal Statistical Society’s first Award For Statistical Excellence in Journalism, shortlisted in the Samuel Johnson and Royal Society literary prizes 2009, the Faculty of Public Health DARE Prize Lecture, an honorary doctorate from Herriott-Watt University, “Best Freelancer” at the Medical Journalists Awards 2006, the Healthwatch Award in 2006, “Best Feature” at the British Science Writers Awards twice, and a few other bits and pieces.