Monthly Archives: December 2008

MSPH WIP 22-Dec-08:Physical activity patterns and cardiovascular disease risk among immigrants in Australia

12noon – 1pm, Monday 22nd December 2008
Centre for MEGA Epidemiology, Seminar Room 139, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton
Jayantha Dassanayake (MAppSc) – Centre for MEGA Epidemiology,  Melbourne School of Population Health 
Introduction: Most migrants, coming to Australia from various cultural backgrounds, demonstrate good if not better health than the Australian-born population, a phenomenon known as the [...]

CHS PhD Confirmation 18-Dec-08: Talking to the dead: death work, health care, ideology & practice

Presented by Tara Nipe
Thursday 18th December, 10am,
Room 410, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton.
All Welcome. 
Tara Nipe is a current PhD student in the Centre for Health and Society.  Tara is a registered nurse, and has a Masters of Social Health (Ethics) and a Masters of Social Health (Anthropology).  Her current research builds on a previous [...]

WIP Seminar 11-Dec-08: Caesarean section as a self-propelled epidemic: Evidence from births in Victoria, 1999-2006

12noon – 1pm, Thursday 11th December 2008
Melbourne School of Population Health, Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
This WIP will review a study-in-progress that is tackling an important public health issue and trying to develop new methods for quantifying predictors of rate changes.

MSPH Special Seminar 8-Dec-08: Real Time Bayesian Estimation of the Epidemic Potential of Emerging Infectious Diseases

12.30pm – 1.30pm, Mon 8th December 2008
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton

Dr Ruy Ribeiro, Technical Staff Member, Theoretical Biology & Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
Fast changes in human demographics worldwide, coupled with increased mobility, and modified land uses make the threat of emerging infectious diseases increasingly important

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