Monthly Archives: May 2008

Media Release: University of Melbourne leads the charge to eradicate blinding eye disease (May 22nd, 2008)

May 22, 2008 – 10:34am

Media Release, Thursday 22 May 2008
Leading health experts and philanthropists will join forces in Melbourne today to mark the start of their campaign to eradicate a curable eye disease which continues to cause blindness in Australia’s Indigenous communities.
The Indigenous Eye Health Program at the University of Melbourne aims to eradicate trachoma – an eye disease [...]

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Professor Ian Anderson discusses the Knowledge Economy and Aboriginal Health Development at the Dean`s Lecture Series (May 13th, 2008)

May 13, 2008 – 11:25am

Dean’s Lecture Series, 13 May 2008
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Professor Ian Anderson, Director, Centre for Health and Society and Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population Health and Research Director, Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health spoke at the Dean’s Lecture Series on 13th May 2008.
Prime Minister [...]

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Media Release: Strategy rethink needed to boost Indigenous student numbers in health studies (May 12th, 2008)

May 12, 2008 – 10:36am

Media Release, Monday 12 May 2008
Urgent action is needed to get more Indigenous students into university medical schools if Australia is to succeed in closing the Indigenous health gap by 2030, a University of Melbourne academic has warned.
Chair of Indigenous Health at the University of Melbourne, Professor Ian Anderson, says that with Australian Indigenous Doctors [...]

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