1. Open Access: It’s the Smart Choice Peter Morris for the Child Health Division of the Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia.

2. Outline of talk Smart choices The Cochrane Collaboration The Indigenous InfoNet Using evidence to make smart choices We are not in Kansas anymore….

3. What choices do we make? Smart –Use information to weigh up the benefits and harms of available options Typical Personal

4. Evidence-based practice

5. Can we trust the data?

6. Health information on the Internet

7. Global health- “….achieving equity” www.gapminder.org

8. Jaundice

9. We need information!

10. Not a smart choice Medically harmful Violates the UN Human Rights Convention No evidence of any benefit Very expensive

11. Conclusion