NCEPH Seminars

NCEPH Student Conference 2025 

Towards a Healthy Future – Opportunities in a Changing World

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13 Nov 2025 11:00am - 13 Nov 2025 4:30pm

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Join us at this year’s NCEPH Student Conference, themed Towards a Healthy Future – Opportunities in a Changing World, for a day of research, connection, and community.
 
This is a fantastic opportunity to:
  • Engage with the diverse and exciting research happening at NCEPH
  • Connect with HDR students, the student committee, and the ECR committee
  • Be part of a supportive and inspiring academic environment
 
Limited in-person spots are available, so register early if you'd like to attend on campus. Lunch and tea will be provided for in-person attendees. Please cancel your registration if you cannot make it, so another person may have the opportunity.
 
Can’t make it in person? No worries. We have online attendance, which is unlimited.
 

Schedule

event

schedule11am-11:30am

Conference Opening

Chair: Alyssa

· Acknowledgement of Country

· Convenor’s Welcome and Opening Remarks

· Opening address: Professor Nicolas Cherbuin

schedule11:30am – 12:30pm

Presentation session 1

Chair: Fatimah, Mingming

Addressing barriers to health care access (11:30am – 12pm)

  • Tania Sultana: Healthcare Equity for Persons with Disabilities: Examining Utilisation Patterns and Barriers in Bangladesh Using Andersen's Behavioural Model
  • Ayenew Tesema: Perinatal mental health literacy in Northwest Ethiopia: A qualitative study among perinatal women
  • Questions

Exploring research methods (12pm – 12:30pm)

  • Carrie Samuels: Data resource profile: Australia’s person-level integrated data asset (PLIDA)
  • Mingming Zhou: Recognising consumers’ contributions to health research: co-designing a remuneration framework for the Australian context
  • Questions

schedule12:30pm – 1:30pm

Lunch

schedule1:30pm-2pm

Invited speaker

Associate Professor Jane Desborough

schedule2pm – 3pm

Presentation session 2

Chair: Tergel

Mental health and wellbeing

  • Tergel Namsrai: Stability of sleep quality and its association with cognitive function across the lifespan
  • Oli Ahmed: Association between bedtime social media use, sleep, and mental health: Evidence from Australia and Bangladesh
  • Alfi Fatima Yudani: Understanding stress and loneliness in young people's suicide in low-and middle-income countries: a realist review protocol
  • Getenet Dessie: Malnutrition and socio-emotional skills among adolescents: Longitudinal data insight from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam
  • Questions

schedule3pm – 3:30pm

Afternoon tea

schedule3:30pm – 4:30pm

Presentation session 3

Chair: Hilary

Issues in implementation and large scale data sets

  • Sitotaw Bogale: Design, implementation, and evaluation of a healthy lifestyle education intervention for metabolic syndrome risk reduction among office workers in Ethiopia: Implementation research
  • Robera Olana Fite: An exploration of what it takes to undertake an effective handover of a health program; A qualitative study in Tonkolili district, Sierra Leone
  • Stuart Manoj-Margison: Assessing the feasibility and acceptability of a national syphilis register in Australia
  • Chala Daba Yadate: Global, national and subnational mortality associated with bushfire smoke exposure: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  • Questions

scheduleAll day

E-posters

Dianna Smith: Recovery Colleges in the UK and Australia - how do they compare?: A scoping review.

Dianna Smith: Recovery Colleges in the UK and Australia - how do they compare? A scoping review.

 

Hesham Al-Sharani: Optimal Tooth Brushing Initiation Age and Frequency for Preventing Early Childhood Caries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

•	Hesham Al-Sharani: Optimal Tooth Brushing Initiation Age and Frequency for Preventing Early Childhood Caries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

 

Getenet Dessie: From childhood malnutrition to adult mental illness: COVID-19 and the hidden legacy of malnutrition

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•	Getenet Dessie: From childhood malnutrition to adult mental illness: COVID-19 and the hidden legacy of malnutrition

Location

Molonglo Lecture Theatre, Crawford School of Public Policy

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