New grants/funding

2018-2022    $4,638,513 Department of Health

Tackling Indigenous Smoking program (Impact and outcome assessment of TIS Regional Tobacco Control Grants)

Chief Investigators: Raymond Lovett, Katherine Thurber, David Thomas, Jill Guthrie, Lachlan Russell, Kate Doery, Emily Banks, Catherine D'Este, Alice Richardson, Alyson Wright, Chris Halacas, and Sarah White.

Keynote and invited presentations

• Jill Guthrie was a key note speaker at the PHAA Justice Health Conference in April.

   

Other conference presentations

• Emily Banks gave a presentation on “Using large scale data to provide evidence on cancer survivorship” at the Psycho-oncology Co-operative Research Group (PoCoG) Early Career Researcher Workshop on 3 April.
• Katie Thurber and Jen Walker presented to the Steering Committee for the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children on preliminary findings from the DSS-funded project, “Production of Mental Health Measures Technical Report for the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC)”.

RSPH Workshops and seminars

• Jason presented at an NCEPH seminar on NCEPH’s role in the new heart health assessment Medicare item.
• Jenny Welsh gave her PhD exit seminar on “Psychological distress and cardiovascular disease: An investigation into the epidemiological evidence”.

Awards

Muhammad-Shadaat Bin-Sayeed received an Outstanding reviewer certificate from J of Ethnopharmacology.

Implementation, Engagement and Outreach

• Cathy Day led two community workshops at the local family history society and has been invited to present to U3A on ‘DNA and identity’.
• Alice Richardson provided an example of the impact of research on research participants.  Alice talked about her dad being interviewed by Dr Georgia Pike as part of a CRAHW research project. Alice highlighted the importance of treating people with respect and that our older generations have a lot to bring to research projects.
• Jason Agostino, Natasha Schranz (Heart Foundation) and Natalie Raffoul (Heart Foundation) conducted a half day workshop “Heart Health: Hearts and Minds” at the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA) 2019 National Conference in Adelaide 4-6 April.
• The EPP team has been involved in the development of the newly implemented “Heart Health Assessment” Medicare item.

Other news

• Ben Huntingdon was welcomed to the EPP team.  Ben is completing his PhD through the University of Sydney and collaborating on the Person Centred Outcomes project.

Papers accepted/published  – For information - NCEPH document updated.

• Thurber KA, Long J, Salmon M, Cuevas AG, Lovett R. Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 0-3 years, and association with sociodemographic, life circumstances, and health factors. Accepted Public Health Nutr. 16 April 2019.

   

  Progress on research projects.

• Business as usual.