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Healing is the mobilisation of the body's intrinsic ability to improve its function. This can be clearly demonstrated in the placebo effect where benefits can be significant. This talk will explore healing from theoretical and practical perspectives drawing upon insights from a range of disciplines inferring a new and more rigorous definition of health.

Practical approaches will be drawn from the field of migraine, although they are applicable across a wide range of problems.

Speaker Bio

David Kernick studied chemical engineering at the University of Exeter with a particular interest in systems theory before entering medical school. He has been a General practitioner in Exeter since 1980, during which time he received an MD in medical physics and developed a research interest in the application of complexity theory to problems in medicine and healthcare delivery.  For the past 25 years he has led the NHS Exeter headache clinic and has been involved nationally with a number of organisations in this area. He is currently an academic tutor at the medical school.

Some Questions to Consider: 

• Are current approaches to “health” fit for purpose?
• Is medicine inappropriately trapped within a positivistic paradigm? 

Microsoft Teams meeting

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The Kunonga Framework
Patience Kunonga, Research Associate in Evidence Synthesis, Newcastle University.

Patience works across the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing and the NIHR Innovation Observatory. Her research focuses on health inequalities and inequities, evidence synthesis, and equity in health innovation. She developed the Kunonga Framework as part of her doctoral research, with a wider interest in improving how evidence is generated, interpreted and used to support more equitable health and care decision-making.

The presentation explores the development of the Kunonga Framework, a methodological approach designed to support the systematic integration of health inequalities and inequities into evidence synthesis. It will outline the research underpinning the framework, its theoretical foundations, including intersectionality and life-course perspectives, and how it can be applied to produce more equity-sensitive and policy-relevant evidence.

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