Medical misinformation and conspiracy • LITFL • CODA ZERO

Combating misinformation and Conspiracy by empowering a sense of personal responsibility with Carrie Marr

The challenge of balancing public health and the law, with personal responsibility and freedom, is driven by access to information.

We need to invest in public awareness, reflect on the learnings from COVID and use that for messaging at scale.

Like Covid, we know that the prevention of sepsis relies on education, early detection, sanitisation, antibiotics stewardship and availability of resources.

Post the COVID-19 pandemic, how do we ensure the correct information is available to the public so that people are empowered with a sense of personal responsibility?

We need to encourage the community to collectively move together, to raise awareness, and to educate at a global level.

The Presentation

The Podcast

Speakers

Carrie Marr is the Chief Executive of the Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC) with a passionate focus on quality improvement and patient safety. She has held a number of executive and consultancy roles within the National Health Service, Scotland. Before joining the CEC, Carrie worked at Western Sydney Local Health District as Executive Director Organisation Effectiveness. Carrie continues to proactively collaborate and learn with health colleagues from across the globe. These experiences inform her leadership of continuous improvement in the work of NSW Health to deliver exceptional, patient-centered care.

Vera Sistenich is an emergency medicine specialist in Australia, where her areas of interest include Aboriginal health, medical education and the development of physician training in the field of international emergency medicine. She gained her medical degree at the University of Oxford, and a masters of public health at Harvard University. Outside Australia, she has clinical experience in China, DRCongo, Nepal, Peru, South Africa, Vietnam and the UK. She has also worked with asylum seekers both at the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre in the Australian Indian Ocean territories, and on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. In 2013-2014, she was Health Policy Advisor to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland.

Nick Coatsworth is an outstanding communicator and one of Australia’s favourite doctors. Nick held a key national role in the Australian response to COVID-19 as Deputy Chief Medical Officer. Bringing together his skills as an infectious disease physician, a respiratory physician, a practitioner of disaster and humanitarian medicine, and high level experience in health administration, Nick became one of the most recognised medical spokespeople during the pandemic, engaging the Australian community through a variety of media platforms.

Khairil Musa is an Intensive Care Registrar from Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. He is passionate about Trauma and Cardiac Intensive Care and also enjoys teaching and mentoring junior doctors. Out of the ICU, Khairil is a classically trained dancer and choreographer and was the mastermind of the DAS SMACC Opening Ceremony

Julie Leask is professor in the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. Her research focuses on behavioural science in public health, specifically vaccination uptake, programs and policy. Professor Leask has a number of advisory roles with the World Health Organization including as chair of the Behavioural and Social Drivers of Vaccination working group. She is member of the Regional Vaccine Access and Health Security Initiative Expert Advisory Group for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Coda CURE 2021