Monthly Archives: April 2008

Professor Julian Peto discusses Cancer Vaccine development (Apr 30th, 2008)

April 30, 2008 – 11:14am

As part of the Melbourne School of Population Health seminar series, Professor Julian Peto spoke about Cancer Vaccine development on 30th April 2008.
Click here to listen to the audio from this event.

By Helen | Posted in Melbourne School of Population Health, Public Lecture | Comments Off

Media Release: One in ten retired carpenters in Australia and UK will die of asbestos-related cancer– University of Melbourne public lecture tonight (Apr 22nd, 2008)

April 22, 2008 – 10:38am

Media Release, Tuesday 22 April 2008
Professor Julian Peto, Head, Cancer Research UK Epidemiology and Genetics Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the University of Melbourne’s Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow – 2008 will present the Miegunyah Public Lecture at the Sunderland Theatre 6pm tonight.
Professor Peto will present results of a UK study [...]

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Seeking participants for adult influenza vaccine study (Apr 18th, 2008)

April 18, 2008 – 10:39am

The Vaccination & Immunisation Research Group of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, in collaboration with the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne and the Royal Children’s Hospital, is conducting a study of a licensed influenza vaccine in adults aged 18-64 years inclusive.
The study will provide more information about how well vaccination with [...]

By Helen | Posted in Research, Vaccine & Immunisation Research Group (VIRGo) | Comments Off

Study looks at how to engage disadvantaged communities (Apr 14th, 2008)

April 14, 2008 – 10:42am

How do disadvantaged communities participate in research? What kinds of approaches work and what can we learn from them? Researchers will address such questions in a University of Melbourne School of Population Health study of community engagement strategies and models of research translation.
An investigator on the six-months study, Research Fellow Dr Sarah MacLean (McCaughey Centre) [...]

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