12.30-1.30pm, Wed 25th Nov 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Associate Professor David Dunstan, Head, Physical Activity & VicHealth Public Health Research Fellow, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
As a consequence of significant technological changes in the domestic, community and workplace environments, humans are spending more time in sedentary behaviours involving prolonged sitting. [...]
12.30-1.30pm, Wed 11th Nov 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Associate Professor Heath Kelly, Head of Epidemiology, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory and Honorary Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population Health
Heath will present a perspective on the pandemic that uses evidence from state, national and international surveillance to place the pandemic in context. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
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