Grants awarded to Francesco De Toni
Congratulations to Dr Francesco De Toni, who has recently been awarded, i) RSHA Conference, Symposia and Workshop Grant, and ii) ANU Early Career Researcher Travel Grant. These grants…
Lost in translation: One in three Australians with inflammatory bowel disease experience disconnect with doctor
One in three Australians with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) left their medical consultations with misunderstandings about what was discussed, posing risks to their safety and the management of…
2025 Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care Lancaster University, UK
On Thursday 11th and Friday 12th September 2025, Lancaster University is hosting the next IC4CH International Symposium for Communication in Health Care. Researchers, health professionals and other…
Rapid Research with Ramsay Health Care: Improving communication to enhance patients' health literacy, empowerment and self-management of heart failure
At the end of 2024, Professor Slade and other members of the Ramsay Heart Failure project presented an update on our project Improving communication to enhance patients' health literacy, empowerment…
New book from ICH Research Fellow Dr Georgia Carr
Congratulations to Dr Georgia Carr, Research Fellow in the Institute of Communication in Healthcare, whose first book ‘The Language of Sex Education’ has just been published by Bloomsbury Academic.…
Gastro or endometriosis? How your GP discusses uncertainty can harm your health
Dr Mary Dahm is an ARC DECRA and Senior Research Fellow at the ANU Institute for Communication in Health Care. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read…
New ICH research on diagnostic uncertainty: What do doctors do and say when they are unsure about a diagnosis?
A new study, ‘Communication of Diagnostic Uncertainty in Primary Care and Its Impact on Patient Experience: an Integrative Systematic Review’ in the Journal for General Internal Medicine, highlights…