News & events
News
Australia’s updated cardiovascular disease risk calculator is identifying substantially more Australians aged 45-74 as being at “intermediate” risk of heart attack and stroke.
From the Ebola outbreak to the COVID-19 pandemic, Professor Kamalini Lokuge has been driven to provide humanitarian health care wherever in the world it may be needed.
Australia’s smoking rate has reached its lowest level on record, with new results from the country’s most trusted national survey showing fewer people are smoking than ever before.
Cancer Council WA has launched a new campaign with a focus on brain health, following alarming research revealing people who smoke had a 64 per cent higher risk of dying from dementia compared to people who had never smoked.
Youth uptake is a predictable outcome of systems designed to maximise product availability, appeal, and addictiveness.
A project led by Dr Jenny Welsh has secured major funding of $833,354 from the Australian Research Council.
Events
We invite you to attend this Symposium to hear four presentations as we share our knowledge through our voice, in celebration of NAIDOC week 2019.
In this presentation, Prof O’Donnell will describe the initiatives at Nazarbehev University to enshrine principles of academic integrity.
A story about the rare addition to the Australian health care system – a new item on the Medicare Benefits Schedule for primary health care.
Professor Jackson will describe cohort studies which challenge the relevance of binary diagnoses of hypertension, dyslipidae, diabetes and CHD.
Richard has been the Director of the National Centre for Classification in Health, an international centre of excellence in health classifications, since 2006
This presentation will review the main challenges to primary care, discuss international comparisons and innovations, and describe the main features of Canadian and Ontario reforms.
Dr Caroline Kabiru presents Adolescent health and wellbeing in Africa: What do we know and what next? Reflections from a Kenyan perspective.