August 26, 2009 – 12:17pm
12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 2nd Sep 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Dr Julie Simpson, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic & Analytic Epidemiology, Melbourne School of Population Health
*Note: change of seminar title
Half of the world’s population is exposed to malaria, and with no vaccine for this disease, artemisinin combination therapies are [...]
1.00 – 3.30pm, Thursday 27 August 2009
RACV Club Conference Centre, 501 Bourke St, Melbourne
Prof. Richard Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology, University of Nottingham
1.00 – 2.00pm, Tuesday 25 August, 2009
Basement Lecture Theatre, 221 Bouverie Street
Professor Elizabeth Waters, Jack Brockhoff Chair of Child Public Health, the McCaughey Centre
Professor Anthony Scott, Professorial Fellow, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
Professor John Matthews, Professorial Fellow, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
Dr Tania Bezzobs, Manager Research Development, Melbourne Research Office
Professor Janet [...]
09:00am – 05:00pm, Thu 1st Oct 2009
Bio21 Institute, 30 Flemington Road, Parkville
Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5: How are we delivering? MATERNAL HEALTH TOWARDS 2015
The 5th Annual Nossal Global Health Forum will look behind MDG 5.
12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 26th Aug 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Professor Rob Moodie, Inaugural Chair of Global Health
Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne
This talk will present an insider’s view of how international, national and state health policy is developed. Does research really affect policy? Does evidence really count? [...]
11am – 12noon, Monday 14th September 2009
Seminar Room, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton (Centre for MEGAEpi)
Presented by Professor Helen Herrman, Professor of Psychiatry, Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, The University of Melbourne, Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre in Mental Health
All welcome – RSVP not required
Enquiries to Fulya Torun, Tel: 03 8344 0616
12.30pm – 1.30 pm (light lunch from 12 noon), Tue 25th Aug 2009
Seminar Room 405A, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Andrew Dare (B.A.Hons, M.Phil. [Cantab.]) is a Research Fellow currently researching representations of suicide, mental health, and mental illness in both traditional and online news media.
This Confirmation Seminar will discuss the candidate’s research which [...]
Saturday 10th October 9:30am-4:00pm
Suntec Singapore, International Convention & Exhibition
Centre. 1 Raffles Boulevard, Suntec City, Singapore 039593
Conducting reviews of public health interventions on The Cochrane Library: an introduction to the Cochrane Public Health [...]
12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 19th Aug 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Dr Jim Hyde, Director, Public Health, Victorian Department of Human Services
*Note: change of seminar title
The relationship between healthy public policy, Public Health and research is changing rapidly. Prevention has some precedence in the political environment through COAG. A greater [...]
12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 12th Aug 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Assistant Professor Bryn Austin, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health
With a rapid rise in obesity in the past several decades, childhood overweight is now a top public health [...]