Monthly Archives: September 2009

MSPH Seminar 21-Oct-09: Lost in knowledge translation – A Canadian perspective

10.00-11.00am, Wed 21st Oct 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Associate Professor Sharon Straus, Director, Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael’s Hospital & The University of Toronto
Much of the $100 billion/year worldwide investment in biomedical and health research is wasted because of challenges to knowledge translation (KT) that remain [...]

MSPH Seminar 14-Oct-09: *Managing uncertain environmental health risks – Pharmaceutical contamination of recycled drinking water

12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 14th Oct 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Dr Louisa Flander, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic & Analytic Epidemiology, Melbourne School of Population Health
*Note: change of seminar title
It is difficult to generate precise estimates of improbable yet potentially catastrophic environmental risks, such as threats to the [...]

MSPH Seminar 30-Sep-09: Australian Health System Performance and Indigenous Health – A critical policy agenda or number mumbo-jumbo?

12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 30th Sep 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Professor Ian Anderson, Director, Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, Centre for Health and Society, Melbourne School of Population Health
In 2008 the Prime Minister and the leader of the Federal Opposition along with the Australian health leadership signed a commitment to close [...]

PhD Completion Seminar 8-Oct-09: Top Down/Bottom Up: Exploring the capacity of place-based initiatives to reduce disadvantage

When: 12.00 – 1.00pm, Thursday 8 October, 2009
Where: Room 516, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Presented by Theonie Tacticos, McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, and Centre for Health and Society, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne
Australia, like other [...]

CWHGS Research Seminar 9-Nov-09. Psychological Characteristics of Adolescent Pregnancy in the Context of Prenatal Genetic Screening: A Controlled, Prospective Cohort Study.

11am – 12noon, Monday 9th November 2009
Seminar Room, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton (Centre for MEGAEpi)
Presented by Dr Karen Wynter, Research Fellow, Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society, Melbourne School of Population Health.
All welcome – RSVP not required
Enquiries to: 03 8344 0616

CWHGS Research Seminar 26-Oct-09. HIV Positive Women and Stigma in Australia.

11am – 12noon, Monday 26th October 2009
Seminar Room, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton (Centre for MEGAEpi)
Presented by Dr Karalyn McDonald, Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University
All welcome – RSVP not required
Enquiries to: 03 8344 0616

CWHGS Research Seminar 12-Oct-09. One Decade of Programatic Female Sex Worker Studies in Southern China: Setting Research Agendas

11am – 12noon, Monday 12th October 2009
Seminar Room, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton (Centre for MEGAEpi)
Presented by Professor Eleanor Holroyd, Honorary Professorial Fellow, Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
All welcome – RSVP not required
Enquiries to: 03 8344 0616

CWHGS Research Seminar 28-Sept-09. Children’s Experience of Homelessness

11am – 12noon, Monday 28th September 2009
Seminar Room, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton (Centre for MEGAEpi)
Presented by Dr Maggie Kirkman, Research Fellow, Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne.
All welcome – RSVP not required
Enquiries to: 03 8344 0616

MSPH Seminar 16-Sep-09: *Prevention and research – a changing landscape for research in the prevention arena

12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 16th Sep 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Associate Professor John Fitzgerald, Executive Manager, Knowledge & Environments for Health, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation
*Note: change of seminar title
As noted by previous speakers in the MSPH seminar series, prevention is undergoing substantial change in Australia. The National Health [...]

McCaughey Centre Seminar 22-Sep-09: The Developmental Systems Framework for Preventative Practice in Disadvantaged Communities

When: 1.00 – 2.00pm, Tuesday 22 September, 2009
Where: Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Presented by Professor Ross Homel AO, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Director, Griffith Institute for Social and Behavioural Research, Griffith University

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