Date:
Monday 17 September 2018 - 09:00 to 10:30
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Keynote 2. Working together: understanding and learning from patients' experiences |
Qualitative research gathers and analyzes people’s perspectives and experiences of health and care. In this session we argue that such research is crucial to inform the design and delivery of effective health services in all parts of the world. Dalila MartínezDr. Dalila Martínez is a Research Professor at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. She is an Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine specialist working in a public hospital and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Her experience as a multi-drug resistant tuberculosis patient has shaped her research focus incorporating the patient experience and quality of life measures into her pursuit to improve care and treatment adherence for infections that require long term care and produce discrimination, like tuberculosis and cutaneous leishmaniasis. Keynote title: Too many pills! – How being a patient led me to a career in qualitative research Dorothy OlouchDorothy is a PhD fellow at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme. She holds an Msc in Medical Anthropology. Her research interests and expertise are: qualitative research; health systems research and in Maternal Newborn and Child Health in LMICs. She is currently undertaking a qualitative study aimed at understanding the roles and experiences of mothers in caring for their hospitalised sick newborns in Nairobi City County. Keynote title: Learning from mothers’ voices; lived experiences of mothers of premature babies in Kenya Sue Ziebland (This presentation will now be delivered by Lisa Hinton, Deputy Director for Applied Research at the Health Experiences Research Group (HERG), on behalf of Sue).Sue Ziebland is Professor of Medical Sociology and Director of the Health Experiences Research Group (HERG) in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Sue’s background is in medical sociology, with increasing focus on qualitative research approaches. Sue has worked as a researcher in the academic, NHS and voluntary sectors and has published over 180 papers and chapters in social science and health publications. She was a founding member of the DIPEX (now Healthtalk) project in 1999. HERG specialise in qualitative methods of understanding health experiences and using that understanding for experience-based health information, clinical education and service improvements. Keynote title: Using qualitative research to understand patients’ experience: global perspectives Keynote chair: Rae Lamb |
