[Reader-list] Invitation to a Lecture by Gerd Gigerenzer on 19 January 2018 at India International Centre, New Delhi

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a lecture




*Helping Doctors and Patients *

Make Sense of Health Statistics
by *Gerd Gigerenzer*


*Mohan Rao* will Chair

Friday, 19 January 2018, 3
pm

Conference Room I,

        *RSVP*

India International Centre,
                                                                          Tel:
011 23942199

40, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi 110003
                    Fax: 011 23943450

Please join us for tea at 2.30 pm
                                            email: jaya at csds.in




Efficient and affordable health care requires informed doctors and
patients, but studies show that they do not understand health statistics.
Health organizations and industries exploit this innumeracy to make small
benefits of treatments or medication appear big and their harms appear
small, causing unnecessary harms, fear, and waste of taxpayers’ money. The
ideals of informed consent and shared decision-making are still a science
fiction, and doctors and patients are easily misled by biased information
through health brochures and advertisements. The lecture will focus on
techniques for helping doctors and patients make sense of medical evidence,
as Risk literacy in health could save more lives than expensive screening
programmes and Big Data analytics.



*Gerd Gigerenzer* is Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at
the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and partner of
Simply Rational-The Institute for Decisions. He is a former Director of the
Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human
Development in Berlin and Professor of Psychology at the University of
Chicago. His award-winning popular books *Calculated Risks*, *Gut Feelings:
The Intelligence of the Unconscious*, and *Risk Savvy: How to make good
decisions* have been translated into 21 languages. The Swiss Duttweiler
Institute has distinguished Gigerenzer as one of the top-100 Global Thought
Leaders worldwide.



*Mohan Rao* is Professor at Centre of Social Medicine and Community
Health, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi.

-- 
Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
http://www.csds.in/praveen.rai