November 13, 2009 – 10:59am
1-2pm, Room 410, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Anthony Williams.
This study examines a particular moment in the construction of disability within Australian higher education.
Please see seminar flyer for further information or call CHS on 83440813.
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 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 13, 2009 – 1:20pm
4-5pm, Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Dr Philomena Horsley
Dead bodies are in vogue. Dissected corpses litter our television screens and crime books. Yet in Western hospitals the autopsy is almost extinct, and opinions about the usefulness of the modern autopsy remain sharply divided. How can this be? Why has the autopsy [...]
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 [...]
September 14, 2009 – 5:54pm
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 [...]
September 10, 2009 – 11:47am
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