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 [...]
The Communities in a Changing Climate forum was hosted by VCOSS in conjunction with the McCaughey Centre and took place on February 25 2009. The event was attended by over 100 community sector, local and state government, academic and business representatives. Through presentations, workshops and discussions the forum delved into the social and equity implications [...]
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. [...]
September 2, 2008 – 10:50am
Dean’s Lecture Series, Tuesday 2 September 2008
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Professor Dallas English, Chair of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic & Analytic Epidemiology, School of Population Health spoke at the Dean’s Lecture Series on Tuesday 2nd September, 2008
Cancer is a major killer in Australia, causing thirty percent [...]
September 1, 2008 – 11:54am
Media Release, Monday 1 September 2008
Australians need to tackle obesity and physical inactivity with the same intensity that they have smoking if they want to prevent cancer, says a University of Melbourne expert.
Professor Dallas English, in a lecture to be delivered at the University of Melbourne tomorrow (2 September), says there has been a major [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As part of the Melbourne School of Population Health seminar series, Professor Julian Peto spoke about Cancer Vaccine development on 30th April 2008.
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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 [...]
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 [...]