Seminars and Events
12.30-1.30pm Thursday 25th October 2018
Room 410, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presenter: Karl Andriessen – Karl Andriessen, MSuicidology, BSW, is an NHMRC ECF (from January 2019) at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health.
Fictional suicidal behaviour may affect the public as a risk or a protective factor. Fictional portrayals may also reflect how suicide is perceived in a society. However, surprisingly little is known of how suicidal behaviour is portrayed in television series. Continue reading “CMH Seminar: 25th October 2018 – Mad or Sad? Suicidal behaviour in popular police series on Belgian television” →
11-11.45am Wednesday 10th October 2018
Theatre 1, Level B1, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presenter: Rohan Borschmann (Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Justice Health Unit, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health; University of Melbourne; Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience; King’s College London, UK; Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne).
Vulnerable young people, such as those who come into contact with the criminal justice system, are at increased risk of both self-harm and suicide. Continue reading “CMH Seminar: 10th October 2018 – Self-harm, suicide and mental health problems in vulnerable young people: Epidemiology and opportunities for intervention” →
12.30-1.30pm, Wed 24th October 2018
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Professor Peter McDonald AM, Professor of Demography, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population & Global Health
The State of World Population 2018 examines the global fertility transition. Professor McDonald was the senior research adviser for this UN report. Continue reading “MSPGH Seminar: 24th October 2018 – The State of World Population 2018: The Global Fertility Transition” →
12.30-1.30pm, Wed 10th October 2018
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Professor Janet McCalman AC, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population & Global Health
The Founders & Survivors’ Life Course (Ships) project began with two fundamental demographic tests of convicts’ lives: survival, or length of life and formation of a lineage. Continue reading “MSPGH Seminar: 10th October 2018 – Life, Death and Families after Sentence: the demography of Convict Transportation to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania)” →
4-5:30pm, Wed 3rd October 2018
Theatre 2, Alan Gilbert Building, 161 Barry Street, Carlton
Presenter: Professor Peter McDonald – Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research. From 1995 to 2016, he was Professor of Demography at the Australian National University.
Australia’s Permanent Migration planning level has remained unchanged for the past eight years under both Labor and Coalition Governments. This planning level is based on the impact that immigration has on the ageing of the population and, hence, on GDP per capita. Continue reading “Law and Public Health Lecture: 3rd October 2018 – Population and Labour Force Prospects for Australia” →
12.30-1.30pm, Wed 26th September 2018
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Dr Henrica A.F.M. (Henriette) Jansen, Technical Advisor, Violence against Women, Research and Data, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Asia and the Pacific Regional Office (APRO), Bangkok
Goal 5 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, aims to “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” and includes targets and indicators on violence against women (VAW). Continue reading “MSPGH Seminar: 26th September 2018 – Violence against women in Asia and the Pacific: What do we know from 20 years of prevalence studies?” →
12.30-1.30pm, Mon 17th September 2018
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Professor Olena Hankivsky, Professor, School of Public Policy; Director of the Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada; and
Visiting Professor, Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland
Extending beyond gender-specific and social determinants frameworks, intersectionality focuses attention on a variety of multi-level interacting social locations, forces, factors and power structures that shape and influence human life. Continue reading “MSPGH Special Seminar: 17th September 2018 – Why Intersectionality Matters to Gender and Health” →
12.30-1.30pm, Wed 19th September 2018
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton (*the venue might change, see details on the event flyer)
Professor Maarten IJzerman, Chair of Cancer Health Services Research, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health; & Professor, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre
Precision medicine applications offer the promise of improved risk assessment, earlier diagnosis and tailored treatment and survivorship care for cancer patients. Continue reading “MSPGH/VCCC Joint Seminar: 19th September 2018 – Improving the Delivery of Value-Based Personalized Cancer Care Services: Linking HTA and Health Services Research” →
12-1pm, Thursday 20th September 2018
Seminar Room 410, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presenter: Dr Jun Kashihara – postdoctoral research fellow of the College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, as well as an honorary postdoctoral scholar at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne.
Stigma prevents people with depression from seeking professional help and can decrease the public’s willingness to provide mental health first aid. Although plenty of stigma-reduction programs have been conducted so far, there remains room to amplify the effectiveness of these programs. Continue reading “CMH Seminar: 20th September 2018 – Investigating Stigma of Depression from the Perspective of Social and Clinical Psychology” →
12.30-1.30pm, Tuesday 11th September 2018
Seminar Room 410, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presenter: Prof Robert Schoevers – Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences at the University Medical Center Groningen and Visiting Professor at TianJin Medical University, China.
Diagnostic classifications of mental disorders such as depression incorporate a heterogenous group of patients in terms of symptomatology, underlying pathophysiological mechanisms, natural course and treatment outcome. Continue reading “CMH Seminar: 11th September 2018 – Developing person tailored treatments in mood disorders; research of the Department of Psychiatry at the University Medical Center Groningen” →
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