Category Archives: Centre for Health & Society

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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The Centre for Health and Society Celebrates its 10 Year Anniversary (Mar 11th, 2008)

March 11, 2008 – 4:39pm

The Centre for Health & Society celebrated its 10-year anniversary on the 11th and 12th of March 2007.
CHS staff met with invited speakers Professor Warwick H. Anderson, the inaugural director of the Centre, Professor Peter Skold from Umea University (Sweden) and Associate Professor Papaarangi Reid, Tumuaki Dean, The University of Auckland, to hear their perspectives [...]

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Public Lecture: Ian Anderson: Chronic to Crisis: Indigenous sexual abuse and other policy debates in Indigenous health (Aug 29th, 2007)

August 29, 2007 – 10:38am

Professor Ian Anderson was invited to speak at the Staff/Student Forum at The University of Melbourne on 29 Aug 07.  His talk was titled ‘Chronic to Crisis: Indigenous sexual abuse and other policy debates in Indigenous health’.  In this talk he discussed the recommendations of the Little Children Are Sacred Report and the Australian Government [...]

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