Generating knowledge for global health

Lightning Talks Regional Showcase

SESSION RECORDING

In this curated series of presentations, we learnt about the evidence and insights resulting from research to inform global health. We heard from stellar researchers furthering our knowledge and understanding of key issues in global health.

Talks in this session include:

  • Modern Environmental Epidemiology for Global Environmental and Climate Health (Yuming Guo)

  • Building Stronger Regional Collaborations: Empowering Evidence-Based Health Policy through North-South and South-South Partnership (Fiona Russell)

  • Addressing sex and gender bias, invisibility and exclusion in health and medical research, policy, and practice (Cheryl Carcel)

  • Bringing about policy and practice change to ensure access to sexual and reproductive health services for women (Danielle Mazza)

  • From research to implementation and scale up: Eliminating cervical cancer in the Indo-Pacific (Marion Saville)

SESSION SUMMARY

Yuming Guo
Professor of Global Environmental Health and Biostatistics and Head, Climate, Air Quality Research (CARE) Unit, Monash University, Australia

Fiona Russell
Director of Child & Adolescent Health PhD Program, The University of Melbourne; Group Leader, Asia-Pacific Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Co-Chair, World Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases International Scientific Committee

Cheryl Carcel
Head, Brain Health Program, The George Institute for Global Health, Australia & Principal Investigator, Principal Investigator, Centre for Sex and Gender Equity in Health and Medicine

Danielle Mazza
Chair of General Practice & Head, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women in Primary Care (SPHERE), Monash University, Australia

Marion Saville
Executive Director, Australian Centre for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer

SESSION MODERATOR

Steve Wesselingh
Chief Executive Officer, National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia

INVITED SPEAKERS