Improving cancer screening for people with intellectual disabilities: Scotland and Australia working together
Published: 30 April 2024
Professor Deborah Cairns, Director of the Scottish Learning Disabilities Observatory, and Professor Katie Robb, Lead for the Cancer Behaviour Research Group, have joined forces with colleagues from the School of Health and Wellbeing to work in collaboration with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia.
Professor Deborah Cairns, Director of the Scottish Learning Disabilities Observatory, and Professor Katie Robb, Lead for the Cancer Behaviour Research Group, have joined forces with colleagues from the School of Health and Wellbeing to work in collaboration with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia. Through prestigious funding from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Deborah and Katie recently visited Australia for a number of knowledge exchange events with UNSW, Sydney University, Melbourne University, Cancer Council Victoria, HTA Analysts, the Australian Government and the Daffodil Centre to discuss their vital and comparable research on cancer screening in adults with intellectual disabilities. Together they have agreed on an exciting programme of work to take forward to address the facilitators and barriers to accessing cancer screening for people with intellectual disabilities. The team will meet at the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities World Congress in Chicago this August to share their research agenda with the wider international community and discuss next steps in preparation for the Australian team visiting Scotland in 2025. Further details can be viewed here:
First published: 30 April 2024
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