Preventing Overdiagnosis

Each of the partners and representation from other key organisations in Preventing Overdiagnosis will be represented on the board, including The BMJ, Wiser Healthcare, the University of Oxford’s Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Each board member will also have a ‘second’ who can attend meetings. While primarily an international scientific meeting, the conference encourages clinicians, policy-makers and citizen organisations to participate, as well as researchers.

The primary aim of the Board is to develop strategies to sustain the international scientific conferences. Other aims include: to encourage national or regional conferences; encourage research generation and dissemination on the problem of overdiagnosis and potential solutions; encourage the development of educational curricula; encourage development and evaluation of strategies to communicate about overdiagnosis; encourage the development of a community or network of clinicians, researchers, policy-makers and citizen advocates with an interest in the area; develop explicit guidance for constitution of the board and committees.