Category Archives: Centre for Health Policy, Programs & Economics

CHPPE Seminar 05-May-09:Dementia Prevention – too early for a public health program?

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 [...]

CHPPE Seminar 21-Apr-09:Work in Progress:School Ergonomics : Will the introduction of a healthy schoolbag and healthy related behaviour be effective in Melbourne school children?

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 [...]

CHPPE Seminar 24-Mar-09: The Memory Business: Dementia and Public Policy in Australia 1980-2005

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 [...]

CHPPE Seminar 10-Mar-09: Intersectoral Collaboration and the Cosmetics of Rhetoric

12.30 to 1.30 pm (light lunch from 12 noon), Tuesday 10th March 2009
Room 405A, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Dr Megan Lawrence, PhD student at Menzies School of Health Research (Charles Darwin University)
This presentation will outline the research proposal of Megan’s PhD – a comprehensive descriptive case study of implementing intersectoral collaboration for suicide prevention [...]

CHPPE Seminar 25-Nov-08: The New Black: Changes in media reporting of depression between 2001 and 2007

12.30 to 1.30 pm (light lunch from 12noon), Tues 25th November 2008
Room 405A, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Andrew Dare is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Policy, Programs, and Economics. He currently works on a range of projects relating to traditional and online media, suicide prevention and mental health. He has a [...]

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