Events
Conferences/Symposia
The Inaugural AMREP World Health Day Symposium
Research supporting policy and practice in low - and middle - income countries
Monday, 7 April 2008, 8.30am-5pm
Coppin Hall, 313 Punt Rd, Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA
This symposium is hosted by the AMREP* Global Health Research Consortium
Key Note Speakers
Professor Tony McMichael, Director, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Australia
Dr Clement Malau, Secretary of Health, Papua New Guinea
Mr Bob McMullan, Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, Australia
Dr Thandi Puoane, School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, South Africa
Dr K R Thankappan, Director, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, India
Seminars/Lectures
Professor Richard Southby - Executive Emeritus Dean and Distinguished Professor of Global Health at The George Washington University Medical Center
"Health Care Reform: Looking Back to Go Forward"
Presentation Slides (PDF - 280kb)
Tuesday 26nd February
4:00pm - 5:30pm
AMREP Seminar Room
Alfred Hospital, Commercial Rd, Melbourne
(Inbetween the Ian Potter Library and the Baker Heart Research Institute)
Professor Allan Best - Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Canada
"Systems Thinking for Improving Health: Understanding both Process and Outcome"
Monday 31st March 2008
4:00pm - 5:30pm
AMREP Seminar Room
Alfred Hospital, Commercial Rd, Melbourne
(Inbetween the Ian Potter Library and the Baker Heart Research Institute)
Public Forums
Professor C Barr Taylor - Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at Stanford Medical Center USA, Direcotor of the Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program, and Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Behavioural Medicine
What do we REALLY know about the relationship between depression and cardiovascular disease: Implications for clinical practice and research?
Podcast (MP3 - 21.9Mb) and Presentation Slides (PDF - 152.1kb) available.
Friday 29th February 2008
3:00pm - 4:15pm
AMREP Seminar Room
Alfred Hospital, Commercial Rd, Melbourne
(Inbetween the Ian Potter Library and the Baker Heart Research Institute)
Professor Robert Friedman -Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Boston University and Boston Medical Center in the U.S.A.
Brisbane Public Forum
Telehealth interventions for the prevention and management of heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases
Tuesday 11th March 2008
5:00pm - 6:30pm
IHBI
Kelvin Grove Urban Village
60 Musk Ave
Kelvin Grove, Brisbane
Melbourne Public Forum
Telehealth interventions for the prevention and management of heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases
Podcast (MP3 - 17.81Mb) and Presentation Slides (PDF - 814kb)
Friday 14th March 2008
1pm - 2.00pm
DEPM seminar room
3rd Floor Burnet Building
89 Commercial Road
Alfred Hospital, Melbourne 3004
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