The power of story: linking health stories to improve the health of all | Courtney Weber | TEDxUWA

Our stories and our experiences create who we are. Just one story can provide an opportunity to learn about your journey and your health. However, combining the health stories of the community allows us to learn so much more. When we combine our stories together, we learn about the different patterns and trends of health within. Our stories spoken together allow us to see the opportunities for change and improvement to our overall health.

Through the use of Western Australian linked health data, cardiovascular and population health researcher Courtney Weber navigates the importance of the connection between your health stories and the community.

By sharing her own personal story and her research in the epidemiology of atrial fibrillation and heart failure, she highlights how her own data and the data of others, can improve the health of all of us: now, and for future generations.
Courtney is currently a PhD candidate in Population Health at the University of Western Australia and is passionate about using linked data effectively to understand past epidemiological trends of heart disease, to help predict our future, and to support effective, population-wide prevention strategies that are patient-based, holistic, and multi-disciplinary. She also finds some time to co-host a podcast, “The Meaning of Heath Podcast”, where she talks to researchers, organisations and community members about health-related personal experiences, individual health issues, new population and public health innovation, and overall health-related research. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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