The WA BioInnovation Symposium will provide industry and investors with intimate access to promising WA life sciences research projects nearing translation and provide entrepreneurs, clinicians and researchers the chance to receive vital feedback and learn about industry sector requirements. Hear about the latest WA biotech and healthcare investment and partnering opportunities, Learn about WA’s R&D … Continued

The 2019 Research Impact Summit features over 20 speaker sessions led by knowledge translation and research impact experts, researchers, proven practitioners and influencers from government, policy and business. The Summit consists of content across the themes of: Translation, Implementation Science, Collaboration & Engagement, Dissemination, and Research Impact. The summit is for researchers, research support and administrators, … Continued

Join your colleagues from the North Metropolitan Health Service Provider in a week long celebration of research! Download the Research Week 2019 - Timetable

The Lions Eye Institute (LEI) will share important developments in research into vision loss and blindness during the inaugural LEI Research Week. LEI Research Week will comprise a series of free events, including: Eye health and research lectures for the community: McCusker Auditorium, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, 6 Verdun St Nedlands, 10am – … Continued

The WAHTN are offering a Clinical Research Support Service for anyone currently involved in or interested in conducting clinical research in Western Australia. This service is provided by the Clinical Trial and Data Management Centre (CTDMC) who will be visiting WAHTN member partners. Please click here for flyer

Curtin University's Centre for Data Linkage is running a short 1 day introductory workshop on Data Linkage. This is an introductory course that will expose participants to some of the technical aspects of data linkage, including: Different methodologies of linkage (deterministic, probabilistic, SLK), Different grouping strategies, Errors in data linkage (types & how to measure them), … Continued

You're invited to a WACRA Symposium Day with invited international guest Professor Cathy Shanahan (King's College London, UK) and key WA Cardiovascular researchers. Professor Cathy Shanahan was educated in Australian and obtained a PhD in Genetics from the University of Adelaide. She began research in the field of cardiovascular medicine in the Biochemistry Department at … Continued

Are you interested in turning your research idea into a well prepared grant application? With funding rounds always around the corner, it is never too late to spend an hour looking at strategies for putting together a high quality grant application. This seminar will provide practical tips on writing applications, grant review processes, and responding … Continued

Places are still available for this workshop. The WAHTN and UWA School of Population and Global Health are proud to host Professor Merrick Zwarenstein  (Department of Family Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Western University, Ontario; see profile here ) in Perth in early-November 2019 as part of the WAHTN’s Distinguished Visiting Professor Program. Merrick is an internationally-renowned … Continued

This workshop is fully booked. If you would like to be put onto the waiting list, please email info@wahtn.org   Topics: Introduction; The Research Question; Overview of evaluative research designs; Rationale for undertaking a Pragmatic RCT - internal and external validity The WAHTN and UWA School of Population and Global Health are proud to host … Continued

This workshop is fully booked. If you would like to be put onto the waiting list, please email info@wahtn.org Topics: Randomisation & Sample Size; Data Collection, Analysis & Interpretation Collecting data, understanding it and interpreting results - Primary, Secondary and Post-hoc Analyses The WAHTN and UWA School of Population and Global Health are proud to … Continued

This workshop is fully booked. If you would like to be put onto the waiting list, please email info@wahtn.org   Topics: Ethics in Pragmatic Trials; Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trials Complete Protocol exercise The WAHTN and UWA School of Population and Global Health are proud to host Professor Merrick Zwarenstein  (Department of Family Medicine, Epidemiology & … Continued

The Cancer Council WA and Western Australian Clinical Oncology Group invite you to attend their Proton Radiotherapy Education Event. The event will be chaired by Dr Martin Ebert, Director of Physics Research, Department of Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Visiting speakers include: Dr Scott Penfold- Principal Physicist, Bragg Centre, SA; Dr Hien Le – … Continued

Please save the date for the Accelerating Child Health Research: A Systems Biology Symposium co-hosted by the Respiratory Research Centre and the Centre for Personalised Medicine for Children. The key themes for this symposium include: Precision health, Multi-omics applications, Systems epidemiology and Date integration and visualisation. Abstract submissions are open now. Please submit your abstract to respiratory.research.centre@telethonkids.org.au … Continued

WAHTN will host a talk and short Q and A on the newly established Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC). The talk titled, Clinical and population phenomic approaches to augment clinical actionability and preventive medicine strategies, will be presented by Professor Jeremy Nicholson (Director of the Australian National Phenome Centre, Pro Vice Chancellor for Health Science … Continued

This talk is a unique opportunity to hear from Professor Roberto Solari about the process of commercial drug discovery. It will cover the basic techniques of target discovery and validation and how new technologies have influenced productivity in Pharma. Roberto Solari is a research biologist and is a Visiting Professor at the National Heart and … Continued

You're invited to participate in a Research Priority Mapping Workshop aimed at gaining an understanding of the issues which face individuals living with a neurological disorder and potential avenues for future research. At the Workshop, the research team will present an overview of the research program, followed by group discussions, sharing and brainstorming ideas about … Continued

The South Metropolitan Health Service (SMHS) is holding a full day Research Showcase on Thursday 28 November, 2019. The day will feature a number of events including a: CSIRO Breakfast Research Forum: Research Potential of Emerging Technologies, SMHS Innovation Presentation: Kaartdijin: Big Dreaming - What is it all about?, Podium Presentations, Consumers in Research, Technology … Continued

The WA Department of Health invites you to join their Palliative Care Consumer World Cafe. Share your ideas and preferences around what a good palliative care journey would look like. Light refreshments and a small payment will be provided. Register by 5pm, 29 November 2019 by emailing Christina Turco on Christina.Turco@health.wa.gov.au See flyer

Adaptive Health Intelligence are pleased to announce that a Bayesian adaptive trials workshop series will be held in Perth, 4-5 December 2019 to help researchers and statisticians gain knowledge and practical skills to design these types of trials. These workshops will be run by Bayesian clinical trial experts Ben Saville, PhD and Anna McGlothlin, PhD … Continued

The UWA Research Income Growth Grant (RIGG) Symposium on Climate Change and Future Child Health will examine the effects of climate change, environmental degradation and population dynamics on the health of future children. Given that children are estimated to bear 80-90% of the burden of ill-health caused by climate change, this issue is now one … Continued

Are you interested in: intra and intersectoral, collaboration for research for rural and remote communities? better health service models and research translation for rural Australia? improving WA’s research performance? Guest speaker, Professor Christine Jorm is developing a new Australian Alliance for Rural Medical Research (promoters are NSW Regional Health Partners and University of New England). … Continued