CONGRATULATIONS TO DR SHARON FRIEL ON BEING AWARDED AN ARC FUTURE FELLOWSHIP |
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Dr Friel will do research on food systems, urban health equity and climate stabilisation: the need for a common agenda.
"Health has improved for many but not for all. The extent of these health differences is growing, between and within countries. Meanwhile, humans are disrupting the Earth system. This too poses serious risks to health, risks that impinge unequally between regions and populations. The proposal addresses the interface between climate change and health inequity. The aim is to understand the inter-relationship between Australian economic, social, health and environmental policy, the food system, the urban living environment, health equity and climate change. The research will inform the alignment of policy agendas, leading towards greater national and global health equity and the development of societies that live within environmental limits. |
| This research will help address two great contemporary human struggles - achieving health equity and climate stabilisation. Action concerned with economic and social policy, food systems and urban living will improve Australian and global health, and help reduce social inequity such that communities are better able both to cope with the impacts of climate change and to avert further damage to the global environment. Providing an evidence base that demonstrates, for the first time, what can be done in an integrated manner, will help mobilise political and popular support for a radical break with the compartmentalised and short term approach that dominates the political agenda at state, national and global levels." |
CONGRATULATIONS TO NCEPH'S CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCHERS FOR NOMINATION
NCEPH'S Climate Change and Health Research Group have been selected as one of two finalists for the NSW Office for Science and Medical Research Jamie Callachor Eureka Prize for Medical Research (which, this year, is awarded to an individual or research team conducting outstanding research into the health impacts of climate change).
Dr Helen Berry, whose research featured in the nomination, will represent the group at the gala awards dinner on 18th August in Sydney.
The research program on Climate Change and Health at NCEPH is one of the largest and longest-standing in the world. It addresses many topics, spanning the study of climate-health relationships, determinants of vulnerability to climate change, development/evaluation of adaptive strategies to lessen risks, and estimation of health co-benefits from mitigation strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The research includes the use of scenario-based modeling of future population risks to health.
http://eureka.australianmuseum.net.au/21B5C381-35E0-11DE-8E7E8D299F3A8972?DISPLAYENTRY=true
DEALING WITH UNCERTAINTIES IN POLICING SERIOUS CRIME
A One-Day Conference
Thursday 8 October 2009, 9am – 6pm
Coombs Extension, Building 8
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT
How can police make effective decisions when information is limited?
How does confirmation bias affect investigations, and how can we overcome it?
Why do certainties in policing seem uncertain in court?
What can police learn from business methods for dealing with uncertainty?
This conference aims to enhance policing effectiveness by catalysing research into the neglected area of how uncertainties are understood and managed in the policing of serious crime. Uncertainty is not only overlooked in policing, but more generally in western science and philosophy. Policing, along with other practice areas and academic disciplines, has developed its own ways of dealing with uncertainty. But, in general, the strategies used in each practice area and discipline are incomplete and very limited. This conference provides a forum for cross-fertilization to enrich the understanding and management of unknowns in policing.
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