11am – 12noon, Mon 6th April 2009
Seminar Room, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton
Pesented by Dr Jane S Hocking, Senior Lecturer, Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society, Melbourne School of Population Health.
All enquiries to Fulya Torun, Tel: 03 8344 0616
12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 1st April 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Professor Alistair Woodward, Head, School of Population Health, University of Auckland
If we knew what had caused it, we might be able to say this was one of the greatest human achievements of the 20th century. Global life expectancy at birth in [...]
12.30 – 1.30 pm (light lunch from 12 noon), Tues 24th March 2009
Seminar Room 405A, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Dr Cecily Hunter is an honorary fellow at the Centre for Health and Society.
Memory loss in older people entered the domain of public policy in the early 1990s. This occurred as part of a [...]
1pm
Room 516, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Dr Belinda Robson
In this paper I will discuss the shift in the mode of care for people with mental illness from asylums to community. I will use the eyes of the first Chairman of the Victorian Mental Hygiene Authority, the English psychiatrist Eric Cunningham Dax (1908-2008) [...]
12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 18th March 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Professor Graham Brown, Foundation Director, Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne
Malaria remains an enormous global problem with huge mortality, morbidity and economic cost to the poorest people of the world. Inspired by Bill and Melinda Gates, the world [...]
11am – 12noon, Mon 30th March 2009
Seminar Room, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton
Pesented by Dr Danielle Thornton, Visiting Fellow, Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society, Melbourne School of Population Health.
All enquiries to Fulya Torun, Tel: 03 8344 0616
1.00pm – 2.00pm, Tuesday 10 March 2009
Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Dr Katrina McFerran, Senior Lecturer – Music Therapy, Faculty of Music, the University of Melbourne.
1pm
Room 516, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Caitlin Murray
School of Historical Studies and CHS, University of Melbourne
In 1889, at a gathering of medical gentlemen in Melbourne, Dr F. Norton Manning asserted that insanity was increasing among Aboriginal people at an alarming rate. Manning argued that prior to contact with Europeans, Aboriginal people suppressed [...]
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