This year’s conference will focus on Designing Healthcare: Stimulating Interdisciplinarity and Co-design for Quality Healthcare.
Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice Conference
Online conference dates: Thursday 8 April to Friday 9 April 2021
There is widespread recognition and support for collaborative-working across disciplinary boundaries to solve real-world problems, with users’ needs firmly embedded within this process. The conference theme centres on design: interdisciplinary working between science and the arts to co-produce research. The conference will stimulate discussion, share experiences and generate ideas to design healthcare.
Conference chairs: Dr Rosemary Lim and Dr Ranjita Dhital
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