New grants/funding

Members of SCH, with academics from CMHR and ANUMS are preparing a proposal to investigate the effects of COVID-19 on community functioning in Canberra.

Julie Smith Attended Briefing Teleconference - MRFF Preventive and Public Health Research Grant Assessment Committee

Outreach and engagement

Ruth Kharis was the PHAA representative for the ACT Food Regulation Reference Group 4 March 2020 meeting.

Student news

Three PhD candidates from SCH, Jodie Leu, Mafruha Alam, and Haribondhu Sarma, have submitted their theses recently.

Papers accepted/published:

Gribble K, Smith JP. ‘Women in prison or whose babies are in care need breastfeeding support too. This is why it’s vital they get it’. Essence, March 2020, February 2020.

Smith, JP. Review for Journal of Human Lactation Breastfeeding in al-Andalus: The Wet Nurse in the 10th-15th centuries 2020.