Category Archives: McCaughey Centre

Cochrane Public Health Group Update: Funding support for research into flexible working conditions

December 9, 2008 – 10:50am

The Cochrane Public Health Group (CPHG) has been successful in leveraging funding to support the production of the review, Flexible working conditions for improving employee health and well being. Clare Bambra, from Durham University, will receive £5,000 from the UK Department of Health to support her and her team to complete this very important [...]

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Healthy Future for Kids (Nov 10th, 2008)

November 10, 2008 – 9:18am

By Janine Sim-Jones
A new community-based research program which aims to help close the gap in child health inequalities in Victoria has been launched jointly by the University of Melbourne and the Jack Brockhoff Foundation.
Under the program a University of Melbourne team will work with community organisations, schools, local councils, hospitals and welfare organisations to implement [...]

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McCaughey Centre 15-Sep-08: Visit by Karma Tshiteem, Royal Government of Bhutan

September 15, 2008 – 5:41pm

The McCaughey Centre and VicHealth jointly hosted a visit to Melbourne by Karma Tshiteem, Secretary of the Gross National Happiness Commission of Bhutan in early September. Mr Tshiteem spoke at and participated in a number of events organised by VicHealth, the Australia Bhutan Friendship Association (ABFA) and the McCaughey Centre during his time in Melbourne. [...]

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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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