Dr Ruth Webster

Australia

Honorary Professorial Fellow

Associate Professor Ruth Webster is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at The George Institute. As a researcher, she has a particular interest in the development of novel strategies to bridge the evidence-practice gap in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. She is actively involved in trials of various types of polypill strategies, as well as improving the use of technology in Australian general practice.

Further Reading

Multifaceted approach to managing cardiovascular risk proves too complex in practice
03/05/2021
What’s your risk of getting a killer disease in the next 5 years? It may be higher than you think
17/09/2019
The role of social enterprise in global health scale-up
02/10/2019
The George Institute for Global Health contributes to the Clinical Research of Beijing Jishuitan Hospital
30/11/2018
Innovative triple pill significantly lowers blood pressure, study finds
15/08/2018
Centre for Health Systems Science
$4.5m in NHMRC grants will help fight disease and improve health
01/11/2016
INtegrated combination Therapy, Electronic General practice support tool, phaRmacy led intervention And combination Therapy Evaluation (INTEGRATE)
Quadpill Pilot Study - an ultra-low-dose quadruple combination therapy (‘quadpill’) in patients with hypertension
Dr Ruth Webster - Researching the polypill
09/07/2014
New ‘super pill’ could save millions of lives across the world, reports the UK’s Daily Mail
12/05/2014
Polypill - The power of one versus many
Largest ever analysis on the use of a polypill in cardiovascular disease shows potential for improvements in patient care
09/05/2014
Cardiovascular Combination Pharmacotherapy Global Summit
08/05/2014
Single Pill to Avert Cardiovascular Events (SPACE)