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World-First CAM Conference led by SPH researchers
Friday, 2 October 2009NORPHCAM is hosting the world-first Complementary and Alternative Medicine conference at UQ St Lucia, which will be opened by the Hon. Mark Butler, the Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Health.
The conference, hosted by the Network of Researchers in the Public Health of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NORPHCAM), is the first Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) research conference focused upon supplementing and strengthening clinical advances by producing a public health, health policy and health services evidence based approach.
NORPHCAM is an international research network coordinated from the School of Population Health, University of Queensland, which has over 50 international core collaborators and has recently attracted over $3 million in competitive funding to boost CAM research in Australia.
Associate Professor Jon Adams, the Executive Director of NORPHCAM and Principal Research Fellow at SPH, explains that the NORPHCAM conference is a major step forward for the CAM field and provides significant insights for government, health managers and others involved in health service provision.
“The conference will bring together leading CAM researchers and practitioners to network and advance the field in Australia and internationally,” he said.
“In this area, Australia has recently been hitting high above its weight producing a healthy stock of CAM public health and health service researchers who are helping drive international empirical investigation and debate.”
“The conference will further strengthen the international profile of such Australian CAM research as well as provide an excellent opportunity to network and research capacity build early-career researchers and practitioners in the field.”
“It will unlock an extensive knowledge base previously ignored by the CAM research community, and assist future research to more accurately reflect CAM as practised and used by people in Australia and elsewhere – all essential information for ensuring effective and efficient health care.” said Associate Professor Adams.
The conference has attracted speakers and delegates from the UK, US, Canada, Brazil, Uganda, Malaysia and Japan and is held over the 17th and 18th of October at St Leo’s College, St Lucia Campus, University of Queensland. Online registration is available at www.norphcam.org.
More information:
A/Prof Jon Adams
j.adams@sph.uq.edu.au
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