Speaking

Here are my recent and near-future speaking engagements, including lectures, seminars, conference presentations and the like, starting from 2013. Links are included for talks with websites or where they are recorded and available online.

2023

  • 11-12 July: Panel on informatics and new vaccine implementation, MedInfo, Sydney, Australia [submitted]
  • 7 June: Panel on medical records in Australia, Digital Health Festival, Melbourne, Australia [invited]
  • 7 February: Welcome to Digital Health Week, Digital Health Week 2023, Sydney, Australia [virtual, invited]

2022

  • 15 December: Can better data make it easier to manage the impacts of conflicts of interest? National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Sponsor Influence and Research Workshop, Washington DC [virtual, invited]
  • 8 December: Navigating negativity: how to say no and manage negative influences, EMCR Showcase Panel, University of Sydney, Sydney [invited]
  • 19 October: Health misinformation as a case study in transdisciplinary research, TD School’s Transdisciplinary Research Conversations, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney [invited]
  • 13 October: Identifying and addressing health misinformation, Asian Conference for Political Communication, Singapore [invited]
  • 5 October: What’s wrong with health misinformation research and how multidisciplinary research can fix it, University of Queensland, Brisbane [virtual, invited]
  • 29 September: Why are there so few AI-based technologies in heaalthcare? Bridging the computer science to clinical practice gap, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur [invited]
  • 29 September: Designing and undertaking a high-quality systematic review, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur [invited]
  • 28 September: Postgraduate training pathways for digital health: lessons from existing programs, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur [invited]
  • 28 September: Health misinformation during COVID-19: the role of researchers and clinicians, University of Malaya [invited]
  • 21 September: Methods and challenges of using social media and web data in health research, Digital Health and Informatics Network ECR Community Seminar, Sydney [virtual, invited]
  • 29 August: Joint workshop with Calvary and University of Sydney, Sydney [virtual, host]
  • 21 July: Social network informatics: adventures in measuring misinformation and its impact on health, Centre for Health Informatics 20th Anniversary, Sydney [invited]
  • 30 June: The emergence of the COVID-19 infodemic – how information flows in the 21st century and impacts behaviour, Global Health Security Conference 2022, Singapore [panel, submission]
  • 28 June: Translating AI in clinical practice, Duke-NUS SingHealth Polyclinics [invited]
  • 4 May: Harnessing the power of AI to transform clinical trials, AIMS 2022 (China, International) [virtual, invited]
  • 24 February: COVID-19 research: infodemiology, Global Research and Innovation Forum (Geneva, international) [invited]
  • 16 February: Unlocking the power of AI in Healthcare, Digital Health Week (Sydney and Melbourne) [invited, host]

2021

  • 16 December: NLP for systematic reviews and the synthesis of clinical trial data, The 3rd Musculoskeletal ARCTCIBE and SydMSK Combined Online Workshop on Bioengineering and Sydney Musculoskeletal Bone and Joint Health Alliance (University of Sydney) [invited]
  • 7 December: Introduction to DHIN, FMH Networks Launch (University of Sydney) [invited]
  • 24 November: New machine learning tools for reducing bias and waste in systematic review processes, Evidence, Policy, and Influence Collaborative CPC (University of Sydney) [invited]
  • 9 November: Use of innovation technologies enabling the future of healthcare, 9th Global Digital Health Partnership Virtual Summit (India, international) [invited]
  • 2 November: How do we measure information diet and information exposure? A perspective from research, 5th WHO Infodemic Management Conference (Geneva, international) [invited]
  • 29 August: Using AI to improve the design, reporting, and synthesis of trials, AIMS 2021 (China, international) [invited]
  • 31 March: Virtual Panel on collaborative solutions to misinformation online, supported by Facebook Australia (Australia) [invited]
  • 24 February: Using information epidemiology to know when to engage with misinformation, UTS event on COVID vaccine misinformation (University of Technology, Sydney) [invited]
  • 23 February: Coupling ClinicalTrials.gov and bibliographic data to improve systematic reviews, Virtual Methods Symposium, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Public Health, and Cochrane Center (United States) [invited]
  • 3 February: Rogue MP pushing conspiracies in Parliament, Triple J Hack (Australia) [interview, invited]

2020

  • 11 November: Social media and drugs, PCOL3888, School of Medical Sciences, The University of Sydney [guest lecture]
  • 12 October: Twitter, bots and vaccine misinformation, Health Report [interview, invited]
  • 2 October: Managing misinformation in communities: tools for identifying, tracking, and intervening, CHAI seminar [invited]
  • 26 July: Medical misinformation, COVID-19, Big Data and Black Lives Matter, Science Friction [panel, invited].
  • 24 July: Social media data for spatial variation in population-level health studies, CAR Seminar Series [invited].
  • 30 June: Participant in 1st WHO Infodemiology Conference [invited].
  • 16 June: Misinformation and machine learning on social media, and the pitfalls of public health informatics, Seminar Series for the Discipline of Biomedical Informatics and Digital Health. [organiser, presenter]
  • 12 June: Participant in Health Service Research Priority Setting Roundtable for NSW Health. [invited]
  • 8 June: Recording for AMSA MEL 2.0 Misinformation in Health podcast. [invited]
  • 18 May: Social media, misinformation & COVID-19: experiences from China & Australia. [invited]
  • 5 May: Podcast Interview for the the Coronavirus Podcast with Conor Burke. [invited]
  • 12 March: The future of clinical evidence synthesis (or why I hate searching for PDFs), EPIC Meeting, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. [invited]
  • 5 March: Centre Conversations, Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [invited]

2019

  • 19 November: Using trial2rev to support timely and efficient systematic review updates, AMIA Annual Symposium, Washington DC, United States. [submission]
  • 23 October: The Far Future, Future of Health Seminar, Actuaries Institute, Melbourne, Australia. [invited]
  • 3 October: Modern systematic reviews: registration, protocols, evidence maps, and automation, Department of Primary Care Medicine, University of Malaya. [invited]
  • 2 October: Recent advances in the use of personal data for screening or diagnosis, Department of Primary Care Medicine, University of Malaya. [invited]
  • 29 August: Wise Cognition Reading Group, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [nominated discussion lead]
  • 1 August: Using results data from ClinicalTrials.gov at scale. At the Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, United States. [invited seminar]
  • 30 July: Can social media research play a practical role in mitigating misinformation and promoting vaccines? At the Department of Population Medicine and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, United States. [invited seminar]
  • 23 July: From reactive screening of published articles to proactive assignment of trial registrations, SRSM Annual Conference, Chicago, United States. [submitted]
  • 30 May: Digital Do’s and Don’ts – the art of communication and self-promotion on social media. ECR Lunch Club, AIHI, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [invited, panel]
  • 9 April: Evidence Synthesis Hackathon, UNSW Canberra, Canberra, Australia. [invited]
  • 25 February: Public health informatics: an introduction, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [guest lecture]
  • 14 February: MQRF Showcase, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [organiser]

2018

  • 14 December: Hearing Hub Ideas – Hackathon, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [invited, judge]
  • 26 October: How to thrive in Academia, 3rd Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences EnCouRage Research Symposium, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [invited, panel]
  • 17 October: What does good leadership in STEMM look like? Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [invited, panel]
  • 10 October: Social media and health. University of Malaya eHealth Research Carnival 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [invited]
  • 9 October: Improving systematic review processes using machine learning. University of Malaya eHealth Research Carnival 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [invited]
  • 8 October: Data privacy and informed consent. University of Malaya eHealth Research Carnival 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [invited]
  • 8 October: Making eHealth research meaningful. University of Malaya eHealth Research Carnival 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [invited, plenary]
  • 30 August: Digital Health and Informatics. HSYP806 Systems Science in Healthcare, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [guest lecture]
  • 19 July: Syndromic surveillance. Health & Biosecurity, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia. [invited meeting participant]
  • 16 July: Using social media to inform public health interventions. Wiser Healthcare research collaboration Journal Club, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. [invited, seminar]
  • 5 July: Making sense of social media data. Machine Learning and Data Science Stream, RezBaz Sydney, Sydney, Australia. [invited]
  • 29 June: What is data? Sixth annual Sexual Health and Viral Hepatitis Forum, Melbourne, Australia. [invited]
  • 30 May: Use of publicly available data and social media for EID surveillance. CREID colloquium, The University of Sydney, Australia. [invited]
  • 24 May: Things no one told me about a PhD: Q&A panel for HDR students and new supervisors, ECR Lunch Club, AIHI, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [invited, panel]
  • 22 May: Twitter for Academics, EnCouRage early career research network, FMHS, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [invited, panel]
  • 13 March: Making it in Academia, Research Enrichment Program, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [invited]
  • 1 March: Public health informatics: Introduction. Masters of Public Health, Department of Health Systems and Populations, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [guest lecture]
  • 28 February: The future of social media research on HPV vaccines. National HPV Vaccination Roundtable Meeting, Atlanta, United States. Download Slides. [invited]

2017

  • 10 October: Why every scientist should be on Twitter. Australia’s Science Channel, ECR Network. Adelaide, Australia. [invited]
  • 4 October: Lecture, Evidence-Informed Decision Making (Masters students), The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. [guest lecture]
  • 15 August: Pioneering Minds Podcast. [invited]
  • 11 August: The social aspects of misinformation and troublesome beliefs in vaccination. Conspiracy theories, delusions and other “troublesome” beliefs. For the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders and the Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [invited]
  • 26 July: Why network science matters. What Matters, and Why at the Outlook Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [invited]
  • 1 June: Workshop: Science, Misinformation, and Alternative Facts. Research Enrichment Program, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [organiser, chair, presenter]
  • 16 May: Lecture, Research integrity in clinical evidence (Undergraduate Clinical Science students), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [lecture, online]
  • 3 February: Key Thinkers Key Concepts 2017: Objectivity in the Human Sciences and Beyond, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [invited]

2016

  • 17 November: A talk at the CHIP, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, United States. [invited]
  • 16 November: A matching algorithm between ClinicalTrials.gov and PubMed to support the monitoring of gaps in published study results, AMIA 2016 Annual Symposium, Chicago, United States. [submission]
  • 31 October: Symposium presentation at the Conflicts of Interest in Healthcare Symposium, The University Sydney, Sydney, Australia. [invited]
  • 11 October: Research integrity and bias topic for MRES700, Macquarie University. [guest lecture]
  • 24 August: Modelling HPV vaccine coverage using social media data, a research briefing to the AIHI Board, Sydney, Australia. [invited]
  • 1 August: Lecture, Evidence-Informed Decision Making (Masters students), The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. [guest lecture]
  • 5 May: Public health surveillance methods using social media data. A guest lecture for eHealth Concepts, Queensland University of Technology. [lecture, online]
  • 3 May: Measuring (and growing) your impact. A workshop for researchers at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [invited]
  • 18 April: Ensuring data integrity in evidence synthesis: new methods to measure and mitigate reporting bias. Evidence synthesis node at the Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. [invited]

2015

  • 16 November: Predicting links between reports of clinical trials and their entries in a large clinical trial registry. LTG Seminar, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [invited]
  • 3 October: How well do we address Australians in Australian clinical trials? St Vincent’s Hospital Department of Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology Journal Club, Sydney, Australia.[invited]
  • 22 August: Identifying clinical study types from PubMed metadata: the active (machine) learning approach. MEDINFO, Sao Paulo, Brazil. [submission]
  • 22 August: Using social connection information to improve opinion mining: Identifying negative sentiment about HPV vaccines on Twitter. MEDINFO, Sao Paulo, Brazil.[submission]
  • 3 August: Rethinking evidence synthesis, a panel for the Australian Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2015), Brisbane, Australia. [submission]
  • 22 July: Lecture, Evidence-Informed Decision Making (Masters students), The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. [guest lecture]
  • 20 May: Reviewing a method for automated topic classification using community structure analysis. Machine Learning Reading Group, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [invited] 
  • 5 February: Journal Club (Inaugural Speaker), Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Sydney, Australia. [AIHI internal]

2014

  • 24 October: “Don’t worry, it’s only metadata”, Children’s Hospital Informatics Program, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, United States. [invited]
  • 26 September: Automatic classification of published clinical articles using metadata instead of content, 2014 Macquarie University Workshop on Text Mining and Health, Sydney, Australia. [submission]
  • 30 August: Biases beyond the text: the impact of conflicts of interest on the quality of evidence, Australasian Medical Writers Association Conference 2014, Sydney, Australia.[invited]
  • 18 July: How to manipulate a systematic review, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia.[invited]
  • 26 June: Recognising bias in research and publications, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. [invited]
  • 15 May: Translation Stream, AIHI Symposium, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. [AIHI internal]
  • 1 May: Recognising bias in research and publications, Postdoctoral Academy, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. [invited]

2013

  • 2 October: Preventing harmful translations: an informatics approach to clinical evidence surveillance, 2nd Annual NHMRC Symposium on Research Translation, Sydney, Australia. [submission]
  • 28 August: Social media and your professional presence, AIHI Postgraduate Program, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. [lecture]
  • 24 July: Lecture, Evidence-Informed Decision Making (Masters students), The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. [lecture]
  • 10 April: How to frustrate reviewers and communicate your research poorly: a step-by-step guide, AIHI Postgraduate Program, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. [lecture]