AusHSI students make waves in healthcare research

Over the past few months, AusHSI PhD students Pakhi Sharma, Jack Roberts, Ureni Halahakone, Sam Borg and Linh Vo have each been making an impact in their different fields of healthcare research. Congratulations to all on such fantastic achievements!

Optimize Healthcare Choices Conference

Pakhi Sharma and Jack Roberts presented at the inaugural Optimize Healthcare Choices conference at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. They had the opportunity to learn from experts in the field of healthcare decision making and patient preference elicitation, and shared their own research involving Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs).

Pakhi presented on families’ preferences for neurodevelopmental screening for children, and Jack presented on valuing a spillover health utility instrument for the parents of children with chronic cough, to help decision makers decide about funding new treatments.

IMAGE: L-R Pakhi Sharma, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Jack Roberts, Robin Blythe and Sameera Senanayake

QCVRN Research Showcase Poster

Ureni Halahakone was awarded runner-up in the poster presentation at the Queensland Cardiovascular Research Network (QCVRN) Research Showcase. Her poster on Health Workers’ Preferences in Heart Disease Screening: A Systematic Review explored critical insights into what health providers prioritize in heart screening practices.

Ureni’s research aims to bridge the gap between provider preferences and effective, sustainable screening methods, ultimately improving patient outcomes in heart disease prevention and management.

Hopkins Research Award

Samantha Borg received the Early Career Researcher award at the Bold Ideas Better Solutions Symposium hosted by The Hopkins Centre in recognition of her outstanding work and dedication to advancing their disability and rehabilitation research.

Three Minute Thesis Competition

Linh Vo was the QUT Public School of Health and Social Works’s winner and Faculty of Health runner up in this year’s QUT Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, a celebration of QUT’s graduate research student talent designed to assist graduate research students to communicate their research and its impact to a general audience.