Digital Health Week 2024 | 13th-15th February, 2024
Digital Health Week 2024 allows anyone interested in digital health to engage in virtual and in-person events, exchange research and ideas, and highlight groundbreaking work in the field. Join us to foster person-centred eHealth collaborations, uniting researchers, healthcare providers, industry experts, and the community.
Inclusive by Design
This year Digital Health Week aims to emphasise the importance of creating digital health solutions that are accessible, equitable, and cater to the diverse, unique needs of all individuals. We encourage presenters to consider how their digital health research places end-users at the centre or considers marginalised and underserved populations and factors such as age, gender, ethnicity, disability, culture, socioeconomic status, and geographic location. The conference aims to bring together professionals from diverse backgrounds to discuss and collaborate on ways to create more inclusive and accessible digital health solutions. By fostering discussions around Inclusive by Design the conference seeks to drive positive change in the digital health landscape, ultimately leading to improved health outcomes for everyone, regardless of their background or circumstances.
UNSW Digital Health Week 2024 Program
Thursday 15th February 2024 | 1.00pm-3.00pm
Venue: Michael Crouch Innovation Centre, UNSW Kensington Campus
Online: Please join us with the link provided at registration
1.00 pm-2.00 pm | Keynote presentations from Professor Michael Kidd AO and Professor Deborah Lupton
2.00 pm-3.00 pm | Please join us for afternoon tea, networking, posters and prizes
SPEAKER BIOS
Professor Michael Kidd AO FAHMS is the inaugural director of the Centre for Future Health Systems at the University of New South Wales. He has a joint academic appointment as Professor of Global Primary Care and Future Health Systems at the University of Oxford. He has been involved in research on digital health innovation for more than 30 years, with a special focus on electronic patient records, e-prescribing, digital communication, artificial intelligence and telehealth. He served as the Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Australia throughout the COVID-19 pandemic with responsibility for the development and implementation of the nation’s primary care response to COVID-19. He has held past senior academic roles at the University of Toronto, the Australian National University, the University of Sydney and Flinders University, was the foundation director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre on Family Medicine and Primary Care, and has served as president of both the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and the World Organization of Family Doctors.
Professor Deborah Lupton is SHARP Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia. Her research is interdisciplinary, spanning sociology, media and cultural studies. She is located in the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre, leading both the Vitalities Lab and the UNSW Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Deborah is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Royal Society of NSW and has been awarded two honorary doctorates.
Session moderator
Dr Ian Goon has a background in scientific research, developing nano-materials for biosensing applications and subsequently spent 4 years in a commercially focused-role as a strategy consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in Southeast Asia. Ian co-founded a health technology startup focused on building digital tools for healthcare research projects, prior to joining Tyree IHealthE. His work included leading the development and implementation of technology platforms for the South Asia Biobank (South Asia and UK) and the SG100K population health study in Singapore. Ian holds a BEng (Chemical) and Ph.D from UNSW and obtained an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Cambridge as a Chevening scholar.
Welcome to Country
Aunty Lola Ryan
Aunty Lola is an Aboriginal woman from the La Perouse Aboriginal Community, located on the northern side of Botany. Bay. She is a devoted mother to 3 children and loves spending her spare time with her family and two granddaughters aged 7 and 4 years old.
Lola is the Aboriginal Health Worker for the Child & Family Health Team of South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, a position she has held for 20 years. Her passion is improving the health outcomes for Aboriginal families with children aged 0-5 years and working on projects that can make a difference in engaging Aboriginal families to take care of their health and wellbeing as well as their family’s needs.