My Health Choices Webinar Recording

When young people with intellectual disability turn 18, they have to move from children's health services to adult health services. This is called a health care transition, and for many young people, it goes badly wrong. Support can disappear overnight. Doctors don't always share information with each other. And the new system is often not set up to include people with disability properly. My Health Choices My Way is a research program that is working to address this. It is funded by the Australian Government's Medical Research Future Fund and led by UNSW's Disability Innovation Institute. We spent five years talking with over 100 young people with intellectual disability before we started. They told us two things matter most: being supported to make their own health choices, and being treated as a person, not just a diagnosis. What makes this project different is that people with intellectual disability are not just research participants. They are researchers, decision-makers and leaders in the project from start to finish. Webinar recorded 23 April 2026 For more information please visit https://healthmyway.au/ -------------- We're the official channel for the wonderful community members of UNSW Sydney, a brilliantly located university between the coast and the city. UNSW Sydney is one of Australia's leading research and teaching universities. We're a welcoming community, promoting lasting knowledge and creating an academic environment where outstanding students and scholars from around the world can be inspired to excel in their programs of study and research.