President: Bernadette Richards; Vice President: Rachel Ankeny;
Secretary: Lynn Woodward; Treasurer: Camilla Scanlan
http://aabhl.org/
Committee members:, Lynn Gillam, Ian Kerridge, Wendy Lipworth, Ainsley Newson, Neil Pickering, Ben White,
Stream leaders; Andrew Crowden/Kandy White (Research Ethics) , (Teaching Ethics currently vacant), Malcolm Smith (Health Law),
Ainsley Newson/Ros McDougall/Vicki Xafis (Clinical Ethics) , Angus Dawson (Public Health Ethics)
August 2016
AABHL 2016 Conference
Thurs 24 - Sat 26 November 2016, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Bioethics and health law at the intersections
http://www.aabhlconference.com/
Conference themes include; Relationships between ethics and law; The role of advocacy in
bioethics and health law; Emerging technologies; Professionalism and/or ethics
Pre and post conference workshops
Clinical Ethics: Wed 23 Nov (in conjunction with Australasian Clinical Ethics network)
Postgraduate Students Group: Thurs 24 Nov
Teaching Health Ethics: Sun 27 Nov
PhD scholarship
Suitable candidates to undertake a PhD are sought. The scholarship is associated with the NHMRC
funded Centre for Research Excellence (CRE):
“Creating sustainable health care: ensuring new diagnostics avoid harms, improve outcomes and
direct resources wisely”
http://agile2.ucc.usyd.edu.au/ro/opportunities/scholarships/1784
Symposia, Seminars and Conferences
ACHLR Public Lecture:
Professor Julian Savulescu; Conscientious Objection and Value Pluralism in Medicine
Tuesday 30 August 2016
5.00pm light refreshments followed by a 5.30pm - 6.30pm lecture
Gibson Room, Level 10, Z Block, QUT Gardens Point Campus, 2 George Street, Brisbane
Register: by Thursday 25 August 2016
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Correspondence to: Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law
AABHL Secretariat
Level 1, Medical Foundation Building 1,
92-94 Parramatta Rd,
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
AUSTRALIA
Wednesday 7th – Friday 9th September 2016.
The Children’s Bioethics Centre will be hosting the 8th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference.
This year’s conference theme “Navigating uncertainty” provides the opportunity to explore ethical
decision-making in a range of high-stakes contexts where uncertainty is a complicating factor.
Theme’s include:
 New treatments, uncertain benefits and risks
 Searching for a diagnosis
 Hope – a small chance or no chance at all, false hope, hoping for breakthroughs,
hoping for miracles
 Waiting for transplants
 The child’s experience of treatment and hospitalisation – what is it really like?
 Things that keep us awake at night.
We invite abstracts for oral presentations and de-identified cases for discussion. For general
enquiries or to register your interest, please email Karen Fellows [email protected].
Conference Announcements
23rd August 2016
3rd International Conference on Islamization in Modern Sciences & Scientification of Islamic Studies:
Bioethics Kuantan, Malaysia
11th October 20162nd International Healthcare Management Conference (IHMC) Wilkes-Barre, United States of America
21st October 2016
2WCII2016: 2nd World Congress on Integration and Islamicisation: Focus On Medical and Health Care
Sciences KUANTAN, Malaysia
11-12th November 2016
International Conference On Narratives Of Health And Illness, Tenerife (Spain)
Organised by DIPEx International, Fundacion Iotras de Humanidades Medicas, DIPEx-es,
Universidad de La Laguna
Dead line for abstracts: May 31st
Early-bird registration August 31st
www.healthnarratives.org<http://www.healthnarratives.org>
Resources
The Power of people: Five inspiring films showcasing health care innovation
www.health.org.uk/powerofpeople<http://www.health.org.uk/powerofpeople>
Pills shines a light on an initiative which has successfully reduced medication use for care home
residents, saved money for the NHS and changed the lives of patients, families and staff.
www.health.org.uk/pills<http://www.health.org.uk/pills>
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Flo introduces a telehealth system with a big personality, which uses text messages to support
people to manage their own health. Winning Haelo Film Festival's Film of the Year and a Gold
International Independent Film Festival award, Flo has been used by 30,000 people and 70
organisations in the UK.
www.health.org.uk/flo<http://www.health.org.uk/flo>
Recovery college tells the story of a safe, supportive space where people with mental health
problems are helped by peers as they learn to manage their own recovery.
www.health.org.uk/recovery-college<http://www.health.org.uk/recovery-college>
Gold Line is a deeply moving account of the vital care given to people in their last year of life.
Through Gold Line, senior nurses provide 24/7 telephone support for people living with terminal
illness, as well as their carers.
www.health.org.uk/gold-line<http://www.health.org.uk/gold-line>
Bottoms up is the uplifting story of a trust in Northern Ireland where people at all levels are
supported to innovate to improve care, completely transforming the culture of the trust.
www.health.org.uk/bottoms-up<http://www.health.org.uk/bottoms-up>
Ethics and Health Law News
http://ehln.org/ Ethics and Health Law News is provided jointly by the Centre for Health
Governance, Law and Ethics and the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, both at the
University of Sydney. It is supported by Avant Mutual Group.
Where to publish and not to publish in bioethics
https://ethicsblog.crb.uu.se/2016/04/19/where-to-publish-and-not-to-publish-in-bioethics/
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