11am – 12noon, Monday 18th of May 2009
Seminar Room, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton
Pesented by Professor Anne Kavanagh, Director and Professor of Women’s Health, Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society, University of Melbourne
All enquiries to Fulya Torun, Tel: 03 8344 0616
12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 13th May 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Dr Nigel Gray, AO, Honorary Senior Associate, Cancer Council Victoria
This presentation will focus on the Low Tar Program embraced by the public health establishment in the late 1960’s and extending through until the 1990’s (and still embraced by the European Union [...]
12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 6th May 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Professor Alan Cass, Director, Renal & Metabolic Division, The George Institute for International Health, The University of Sydney
Early mortality due to chronic disease is a major contributor to the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. There is strong [...]
12.30pm – 1.30 pm (light lunch from 12 noon), Tue 05th May 2009
Seminar Room 405A, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Dr Colleen Doyle is a senior research fellow in the Centre for Health Policy Programs and Economics and principal research fellow at the National Ageing Research Institute
There are currently approximately 227,000 people living with dementia [...]
9.30am – 3.00pm, Monday 11 May 2009
Springers Leisure Centre, The Green Room, 400 Cheltenham Rd, Keysborough
Keynote speaker will be Professor Elizabeth Waters, Jack Brockhoff Chair of Child Public Health, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne
12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 29th April 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Professor Ruth Fincher, Interim Director, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, & Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne
A little over a year ago I was asked by the then DVC (Research) to spend 12 months establishing a new interdisciplinary research institute at [...]
1.00 – 2.00pm, Tuesday 28 April, 2009
Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Presented by Elizabeth Cham, Research Fellow in Philanthropy, the University of Melbourne and
Wendy Brooks, Director, Advancement and Communications, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, the University of Melbourne
11am – 12noon, Monday 4th of May 2009
Seminar Room, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton
Pesented by Ms Philomena Horsley, PhD Candidate, Centre for Health & Society, University of Melbourne
All enquiries to Fulya Torun, Tel: 03 8344 0616
1pm
Room 410, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Anna Harris
Overseas doctors (international medical graduates) are often described as having to adapt to ‘the system’ in Australia. This system is neatly delineated in governmental policies, accreditation guidelines, bridging courses and hospital orientation manuals as something learnable and contained. From my ethnographic research I argue otherwise.
For [...]
12.30pm – 1.30 pm (light lunch from 12 noon), Tue 21st April 2009
Seminar Room 405A, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Dr I.L. Kapila Jayaratne is a visitor for Centre for Health Policy,Pragrams and Economics
This is a research project to determine the effectiveness of introducing a healthy schoolbag and related behaviour among children of grade 6 [...]