Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values specializes in innovative social research, aiming to make health systems and decisions more inclusive and democratic.
Mission and Purpose
There are often uncertainties, competing interests, and conflicts in health policy and the provision of health services. These can result from insufficient evidence to "guide action, because there are value differences between stakeholders or both." The Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values is a "specialist team with a set of skills unique in the health policy and practice landscape in Australia, who offer a combination of values‐oriented social research, deliberation and public engagement. These approaches can:
- Generate new understanding of uncertainties, contests and conflicts in health;
- Facilitate meaningful engagement with important health issues by a diverse set of stakeholders;
- Produce action‐guiding recommendations for decision‐makers and practitioners." [1]
Origins and Development
Organizational Structure, Membership, and Funding
Specializations, Methods and Tools
Their "areas of speciality include;
- Issues in health technology (digital health, artificial intelligence in relation to health, health and the internet-of-things, health technology assessment, data analytics)
- Overdiagnosis and overtreatment
- Infectious disease control (pandemics, emerging diseases, zoonoses)
- Health and the human-animal-environment
- Disaster management preparedness for humans and their animals
- Aging (technology and aging, animals and the elderly, overdiagnosis and overtreatment of illness in old age)
- Health inequalities and inequities (social justice, health justice for culturally and linguistically diverse communities, cultural safety, inclusion and marginalisation)
- Methodological research in deliberative democracy and empirical ethic" [1]
Major Projects and Events
Deliberative Consultation on Trade-offs Related to Using 'COVIDSafe' Contact Tracing Technology
Analysis and Lessons Learned
Publications
See Also
References
[1] Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values. Accessed 2/26/2021, https://www.uow.edu.au/the-arts-social-sciences-humanities/research/acheev/