November 19, 2009 – 10:31am
1.00 – 2.00pm, Tuesday 24 November, 2009
Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Presented by Dr Deborah Warr, Research Fellow, The McCaughey Centre, School of Population Health, the University of Melbourne.
Data collected through community surveys undertaken at each of the Neighbourhood Renewal sites has offered important opportunities to development improved insights into associations between neighbourhoods and [...]
November 12, 2009 – 4:34pm
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. [...]
October 30, 2009 – 10:10am
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. [...]
October 21, 2009 – 8:54am
1.00 – 2.00pm, Tuesday 27 October, 2009
Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Presented by Karen Block, Research Fellow, The McCaughey Centre, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne
A research team from the McCaughey Centre and Deakin University has recently completed a two and a half year, mixed method evaluation of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen [...]
October 13, 2009 – 1:26pm
1-2pm, Room 516, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton.
Presented by Dr Anke Van Der Sterren , Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne
Please see seminar flyer for further information or call CHS on 83440813.
October 8, 2009 – 11:02am
12.30pm – 1.30 pm (light lunch from 12 noon), Mon 9th Nov 2009
Seminar Room 405A, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Ms Ferdinand is a Research Fellow whose current projects include evaluating Victorian anti-discrimination programs and examining indigenous eye care services across Australia
Universities are increasingly leaning towards community-based research and community-university partnerships. The trend indicates [...]
October 8, 2009 – 10:28am
12.30pm – 1.30 pm (light lunch from 12 noon), Tue 13th Oct 2009
Seminar Room 405A, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Bridget Bassilios is part of the mental health work stream at the Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics.
The Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS) projects enable GPs to refer consumers with high prevalence disorders [...]
When: 1.00 – 2.00pm, Tuesday 6 October, 2009
Where: Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Presented by William Leonard, Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, and Associate Professor Anne Mitchell, Director, Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria
September 18, 2009 – 10:21am
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 [...]
September 17, 2009 – 5:30pm
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 [...]