12:30pm-1:30pm, Tuesday 29th May 2012 Room 405A, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton Dr. Lisa Brophy, Research Fellow, Centre for Health Policy, Programs & Economics. The Victorian Mental Health Act, 1986 introduced Community Treatment Orders in Australia and since then there has been a worldwide increase in the rates of involuntary treatment in the community. [...]
12.30-1.30pm, Wed 16th May 2012 Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton Dr David Hipgrave, Honorary Senior Fellow, Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne China recently completed the first three years of major health reform. Considerable progress has been made, but the reform is ongoing and a second phase was recently [...]
11:00am – 12:00pm, Mon 7th May 2012, Room 302, Level 3, 207 Bouverie St, Carlton. All welcome, no RSVP required. There is an extensive health promotion literature extolling the benefits of a participatory approach to youth-focused research. However the processes of participation, and how the ideals outlined in the participation literature can be achieved in [...]
12.30-1.30pm, Wed 2nd May 2012 Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton Professor William H Herman, Stefan S Fajans/GlaxoSmithKline Professor of Diabetes, Professor of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology, Director, Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research, University of Michigan Health System, Michigan, U.S.A. The costs of type 2 diabetes are enormous. Clinical trials have [...]
11:00am – 12:00pm, Mon 23rd April 2012, Room 302, Level 3, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton. All welcome. Dr Martha Morrow, Senior Research Fellow, Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne. No RSVP required – all welcome. Little is known about women who inject drugs in Vietnam, a country with a drug-fuelled HIV epidemic. [...]
12.30-1.30pm, Wed 18th April 2012 Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton Clinical A/Prof Jean-Frederic Levesque, Scientific Director, Health Systems Analysis and Evaluation, Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec The search for greater efficiency of health systems encourages governments to bring together two fields of practice which have developed in parallel: population [...]
The 2012 program for the Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics is available here. Details for each seminar will be posted on this blog as they become available. All seminars are free and open to everyone. Please contact the Centre on 03 8344 9111 for more information.