October 27, 2009 – 8:12pm
The Indigenous Health Project Officer will work to ensure that the Crescent project is relevant to and engaged with the Indigenous community in the North and West of Melbourne. This is a new position and an exciting new project, and there is scope for development and creativity. This project officer will report to the Project [...]
September 24, 2009 – 12:06pm
An audio recording of the McCaughey Centre’s recent public lecture, “The Spirit Level: Why more equal societies almost always do better”, is now available on the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Knowledge Transfer website. This lecture was presented by Professor Richard Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham and [...]
September 18, 2009 – 2:22pm
Congratulations to Margaret Kelaher who has been awarded one of the highly competitive ARC Future Fellowships. Margaret’s research topic is Agreements as a mechanism for community participation in health policy: Understanding process and evaluating effectiveness. For more information about Margaret and her work please go to her staff profile.
September 18, 2009 – 2:08pm
Congratulations to the CHPPE mental health team who won the Australasian Evaluation Society 2009 Award for Excellence in Evaluation for the Best Policy and Systems Evaluation for the 6-year evaluation of the Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS) component of the Federal Government’s Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care (BOiMHC) program.
September 8, 2009 – 11:13am
Taking a genetic test can be a lifesaver for some people, but it can also pose a dilemma when it comes to life insurance.
A new study published in the Medical Journal of Australia has found the prospect of increased premiums, or even refusal from insurers, is putting off as much as half of the community [...]
The McCaughey Centre hosted a visit by Professor Angie Hart, Academic Director of the University of Brighton’s award winning Community University Partnership Program (CUPP), from the 29-30th July 2009. Angie visited a number of universities and community organizations across Australia to explore partnership and engagement strategies and initiatives.
August 17, 2009 – 10:41am
Onemda’s Talkin’ Strong newsletter edition 23 is now available at www.onemda.unimelb.edu.au or contact us on 03 83440813 for a hard copy.
August 17, 2009 – 10:35am
This report is the first arising from the Victorian Aboriginal Child Mortality Study, 1988-2008. The first of its kind in Victoria, this report investigates population-based administrative and statutory datasets that collect information describing the health of Victoria’s Aboriginal (and non-Aboriginal) infants, children and young people.
The report is available from the ‘Resource Centre’ of the study’s [...]
A renewed focus on localised and networked water systems could increase water supply capacity and improve the resilience of critical water delivery systems, a new briefing paper has suggested.
The paper Distributed Water Systems: A networked and localised approach for sustainable water services describes how, instead of just relying on water services from large centralised, energy [...]
Nipple and breast pain, mastitis, low milk supply, medical problems and the baby being tongue-tied can all create problems with breastfeeding. “It’s not uncommon to get sore nipples when you start breastfeeding,” says Dr Lisa Amir, lecturer and researcher at the Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society (KCWHS). “It’s a big shock to the [...]