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Professor Paul Glasziou
Evidence-based healthcare researchers and advocates are celebrating the launch of the new Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare at Bond University.
The Institute is a substantial expansion and re-branding of the former Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice established in 2010.
Institute director Professor Paul Glasziou told the limbic they had outgrown the original centre as the impact, reach and the range of their work increased.
The change in structure will help advance the translational uptake and educational impact of their research.
“For example, we are working more directly with health services so we now have an evidence-based practice unit at the Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) which is jointly funded.”
“We’ve done a lot of discovery work here but we needed to make sure it was having an impact both locally and globally as well.”
He said their areas of research wouldn’t change.
“We will still be interested in overdiagnosis and overtreatment, with one of the overtreatments that we specifically work on being overuse of antibiotics and the impact on antibiotic resistance.”