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Last seminar for 2011 series: Dr Robyn Mobbs (Medical Anthropologist)

Nov 21, 2011
Date: Tuesday 22 November, 2011 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building, Herston Campus Topic:  Supo...

Assessing the reliability of causes of death reported by the vital registraion system in Sri Lanka: Medical records review in Colombo

Nov 11, 2011
Date: Tuesday 15 November, 2011 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building, Herston Campus Topic:  Asse...

Australia's Better Access Initiative: has it improved access to treatment and outcomes for mental disorders?

Nov 2, 2011
Date: Tuesday 8 November, 2011 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0) Public Health Building, Herston Campus Topic:  Austra...

SPH guest seminar - The severe acture malnutrition crisis: a failure of health systems

Oct 27, 2011
Recording now available.

Does biodiversity improve mental health in urban settings?

Oct 19, 2011
Date: Tuesday 25 October, 2011 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Venue: Room 015, Public Health Building, Herston Campus Topic:  Does biodiversity impro...

Tues 1 Nov: Two international guest speakers

Oct 18, 2011
Prof Debbie Lawlor (University of Bristol, UK) & Prof Stein Emil Vollset (University of Bergen, Norway) Recording of Prof Lawlor's seminar now available.

Ageing well: Evidence from the Men, Women and Ageing project

Oct 13, 2011
Date: Tuesday 18 October, 2011 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Venue: Room 015, Public Health Building, Herston Campus Topic:  Ageing well: Evide...

Human Resources for Health through Conflict and Recovery: Lessons from African countries

Oct 5, 2011
PowerPoint now available

Behaviour Change Interventions: a showcase of research

Sep 29, 2011
Date: Tuesday 4 October, 2011 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Venue: Room 015, Public Health Building, Herston Campus Topic:  Behaviour Change Interve...

Smoking, Alcohol, Obesity and Squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus

Sep 21, 2011
Date: Tuesday 27 September, 2011 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Venue: Room 015, Public Health Building, Herston Campus Topic:  Smoking, Alcohol...

Cost-effectiveness of preventing cardiovascular disease in Australia

Sep 14, 2011
Date: Tuesday 20 September, 2011 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Venue: Room 015, Public Health Building, Herston Campus Topic:  Cost-effectivene...

Common mental disorders during the transition to adulthood: Do emerging adults and early starters differ? Finding from MUSP

Aug 26, 2011
Date: Tuesday 30th August 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  Common mental disorders during...

Reflections on home: Engaging in research in Christchurch 6 months post-earthquake

Aug 18, 2011
Date: Tuesday 23rd August 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  Reflections on home: Engaging ...

Gestational weight gain and long term cardiovascular health of mothers and offspring

Aug 12, 2011
Date: Tuesday 16th August 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  Gestational weight gain and long te...

Nepal - Developing an Investment Case for Financing Equitable Progress towards MDGs 4 and 5 in the Asia Pacific Region - Equity Report

Aug 4, 2011
Date: Tuesday 9th August 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  Nepal - Developing an Investment Cas...

Public Health Issues in the Torres Strait - Whose responsibility?

Jul 27, 2011
Date: Tuesday 2nd August 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  Public Health Issues in the Torres S...

Drinking and Driving in Vietnam: Perceptions, risk and cost effective interventions

Jul 19, 2011
Date: Tuesday 26th July 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  Drinking and Driving in Vietnam: Perc...

How to Stop the Obesity Epidemic at No Cost

Jul 8, 2011
Date: Tuesday 12th July 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  How to stop the obesity epidemic at n...

Does Adversity Over the Early Life-Course Lead to Mental Illness in Young Adults?

Jun 28, 2011
  Date: Tuesday 5th July 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  Does Adv...

Estimating the Global Burden of Low Back Pain

Jun 24, 2011
  Date: Tuesday 28th May 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  Estimating th...

Examples of graphical models for multivariate analysis in biology, health sciences and longitudinal studies

Jun 15, 2011
Date: Tuesday 21st June 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  Examples of graphical models ...

There will be 6 Short Presentations from PhD Students J Wardle, K Carter, S Forsyth, M Protani, B Guo and B Clark

Jun 9, 2011
Date: Tuesday 14 June 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  There will be 6 Short...

Recent Developments in Life Course Epidemiology: From Model Selection to Family-Based Studies

Jun 1, 2011
Date: Tuesday 7 June 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  Recent Developments in Life...

Using Epidemiology and Administrative Data to Plan Mental Health Services

May 26, 2011
Date: Tuesday 31 May 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  Using Epidemiology and Administr...

Time-Varying Effects of Blood Pressure on Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

May 18, 2011
Date: Tuesday 24 May 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  Time-Varying Effects of Blo...

Early Warning Systems and One Health

May 13, 2011
Date: Tuesday 17th May 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  Early Warning Systems and One ...

Environmental Health In Context: The Case of the Human Pipe

May 5, 2011
Date: Tuesday 10 May 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  Environmental Health in Context: The ...

Effect of the ACGME Work-Hour Restrictions on Mortality and Morbidity of Surgical Patients

Apr 28, 2011
Date: Wednesday 4 May 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  Effect of the ACGME Work-Hour Restri...

Measuring diabetes mortality: problems and prospects

Apr 13, 2011
PowerPoint presentation now available.

Is prenatal exposure to moderate alcohol consumption associated with adverse outcomes in offspring?

Apr 8, 2011
PowerPoint now available.

SPH Seminars: Special guest speakers from China CDC & QUT

Mar 30, 2011
Recordings now available.

Bridging the Gap: Roles for population researchers in translating knowledge about the causes of cancer into effective prevention

Mar 16, 2011
Recording now available.

Smoking Kills: The Revolutionary Life of Richard Doll

Mar 14, 2011
Recording now available.

Results from the Australian Children's Air Pollution Study

Mar 11, 2011
Date: Tuesday, 15 March 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 015, Garden Level (0), Public Health Building Topic:  Results from the Australian Childr...

The Health System Funding Platform: are we there yet?

Mar 3, 2011
PowerPoint now available.

Increasing Patient Activation to Improve Health Outcomes and Reduce Costs

Feb 15, 2011
Date: Tuesday, 29 March 2011 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre, Mayne Medical School Topic:  Increasing Patient Activation to Impr...

How "ObamaCare" will change the US Health Care system

Jan 20, 2011
Recording now available.

Transitions into and out of providing informal care and their effects on use of community services in women born between 1921 and 1926: results from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health

Nov 24, 2010
Recording now available.

Group-based trajectory approaches to analysing longitudinal studies of public health

Nov 12, 2010
Recording now available.

Paradigm shifts and Programme Challenges - how to gain effective outcomes for disease control programmes when health systems strengthening is a principle?

Nov 4, 2010
Recording now available.

Representing Suicide in Indian Films

Nov 2, 2010
Recording now available.

An Ethnographnic Account of Cultural Change and Continuity in Contemporary Indigenous Help-Seeking including a Remote Urban Hospital

Nov 1, 2010
Recording now available.

Is it cost-effective to prevent mental disorders?

Oct 21, 2010
Recording now available

Promoting Physical Activity in Women with Breast Cancer

Oct 21, 2010
Recording now available.

Exploration of Risk Factors for Diabetes among Caucasian, African-American & Asian Population Using NAVIGATOR Screening Data

Oct 12, 2010
Recording now available.

Estimating Burden of Disease from Fatal and Nonfatal Natural Disaster-Related Injuries

Oct 11, 2010
Recording now available.

Global mortality patterns and progress with Millennium Development Goals

Oct 1, 2010
Recording now available

International Physical Activity and the Environment Network Project: Building an Evidence Base for policy change

Sep 23, 2010
Recording now available

Body size in the Thai Cohort Study

Sep 21, 2010
Recording now available

A Screening Health Risk Assessment of Coal Seam Gas Water Resource Development in Queensland, Australia

Sep 10, 2010
Date: Friday*, 17 September, 2010 Time: 1pm – 2pm Room: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre Location: Mayne Medical School, Herston Campus ABSTRACT: ...

Humanitarian principles in action: saving lives in dangerous places

Sep 10, 2010
Date: Tuesday, 14 September, 2010 Time: 1pm – 2pm Room: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre Location: Mayne Medical School, Herston Campus Presented...

Preparing Health Information Systems for immediate health response in natural disasters

Sep 3, 2010
Date: Tuesday, 7th September 2010 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre, Mayne Medical School Topic: Preparing Health Information Systems f...

From Super mums to fast food feminists: aligning ethnographic descriptions of family food provisioning with public health nutrition ethics.

Aug 31, 2010
Date: Friday, 3rd September 2010 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre, Mayne Medical School Topic: From Super mums to fast food feminists:...

If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it:

Aug 26, 2010
Date: Tuesday, 24th August 2010 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre, Mayne Medical School Topic: If you can’t measure it you can&rs...

3 Special Guest Seminars in August

Jul 30, 2010
All Recordings Now Available.

Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine among Mid-Age Australian Women

Jul 29, 2010
Date: Thursday, 3rd august 2010 Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Venue: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre, Mayne Medical School Topic:Use of Complementary and Alternat...

Psychotropic drug use: too much of a good thing?

Jul 14, 2010
Date: Monday, 19th July 2010 Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Venue: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre, Mayne Medical School Topic:Public Health benefits of strategies...

Attributable risk of psychiatric and socio-economic factors for suicide

Jul 7, 2010
Date: Tuesday, 13th July 2010 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre, Mayne Medical School Topic: Attributable risk of psychiatric and socio...

Changing Health Risk Behaviours: Getting it to stick

Jul 6, 2010
Date: Thursday, 8th July 2010 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre, Mayne Medical School Topic: Changing Health Risk Behaviours: Getting i...

Public Health benefits of strategies to reduce Greenhouse gas emissions

Jun 30, 2010
Recording now Available.

Unveiling the mystery behind multiple imputation.

Jun 24, 2010
Date: Tuesday, 29th June 2010 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre, Mayne Medical School Topic:Unveiling the mystery behind multiple imput...

Socio-ecological changes and dengue fever transmission in Queensland, Australia

Jun 18, 2010
Date: Tuesday, 22nd June 2010 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre, Mayne Medical School Topic:Socio-ecological changes and dengue fever t...

Sedentary time and cardio-vascular health

Jun 9, 2010
Date: Tuesday, 15th June 2010 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre, Mayne Medical School Topic:Sedentary time and cardio-vascular health

People with intellectual disability and health assessments

Jun 4, 2010
Recording now available.

Findings from the ACE-Prevention Study

May 27, 2010
Recording now available

Aboriginal Australian Ethnomedicine as Contemporary and Inclusive of Biomedicine

May 20, 2010
Recording Now Available.

The quest for a child: Gender relations and assisted reproductive technologies in Thailand

May 13, 2010
Recording now available.

Reliable Real-time Forecasting of Incipient Hypoglycaemia

May 5, 2010
Recording now available.

Reproductive Health Laws, Fertility and Female Labour Force Participation Around the World

May 5, 2010
Recording now Available.

Findings from the QSCD – engagement of patients with treatment plans

Apr 22, 2010
Recording now Available.

Modeling diseases for the Global BoD study

Apr 19, 2010
Recording now Available.

Population-Based Approaches to Screening for Illicit Drug Use: The Natural History ATS Study

Apr 9, 2010
Recording now Available.

Which meta-analyses are conclusive?

Apr 1, 2010
Dr Doi will focus on one controversial meta-analysis and take us through various issues that could lead to conclusiveness, or inconclusiveness, of the results finally focusing on methodological issues.

Health Literacy in the Primary Care Setting – Findings from a Systematic Review

Mar 23, 2010
Recording now available

Inefficiencies in the Thai health system: Findings from the SPICE project

Mar 12, 2010
Recording now available.

Association of Maternal Age with Infant Mortality, Child Anthropometric Failure, Diarrhea, and Anemia in Low and Middle Income Countries

Mar 5, 2010
Tuesday 16 March 2010
Recording now available.

Malaria in Melanesia – challenges and learnings

Mar 4, 2010
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Presented by The PacMISC team
Recording now available.

Bridging the gap between research and policy in efforts to control neglected diseases

Feb 22, 2010
Monday, 1 March 2010
Presented by Dr. Jose Ignacio Santos, Department of Experimental Medicine School of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Dynamics of Weight Change and Glycemic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes – A New Study

Feb 4, 2010
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
Recording now available.

Karen Carter, Research Officer

Nov 10, 2009
Date: Tuesday, 10 November 2009 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre, Mayne Medical School Topic: Mortality and Cause of Death in the Pacific Islands While mortality level and cause of death ...

Dr Mark Schubert, Lecturer

Nov 3, 2009
Date: Tuesday, 3 November 2009 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: E S Meyers Lecture Theatre, Mayne Medical School, Herston Campus Topic: Doing Social Mapping While social mapping covers a multitude of practices (fr...

Dr Coral Gartner, NHMRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Oct 20, 2009
Date: Tuesday, 20 October 2009 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers, Mayne Medical School, Herston Rd. Herston Topic: Australia's Future Smoking Prevalence: What is the Target and How Will We Reach It? We us...

Electives seminar

Oct 8, 2009
On Wednesday, 8 October, the School will host an information seminar to help students choose electives for summer semester and semester one, 2009. Previous seminars have proven very helpful as students make these important decisions...

Dr Ruth Lopert, Principal Medical Adviser, Therapeutic Goods Administration

Oct 7, 2009
Date: Wednesday, 7 October 2009 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: Room 113, Public Health Bldg. Herston Topic: Pills, Patents and Prices Pharmaceuticals are the most important health-related products that are trade...

Dr Maria Donald, Snr Lecturer, SPH

Oct 6, 2009
Date: Tuesday, 6 October 2009 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers, Mayne Medical School, Herston Rd. Herston Topic: Some preliminary findings from the Living with Diabetes Study: How can they help us evaluate the Queensland...

Catrina Codd, Research Manager, QEMRF

Sep 22, 2009
Date: Tuesday, 22 September 2009 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers, Mayne Medical School, Herston Rd. Herston Topic: In 2005, in the aftermath of the ‘Dr Death’ scandal, Emergency Medicine in ...

Dr Robert Ware, Snr Lecturer, Biostatistics

Sep 15, 2009
Date: Tuesday, 15 September 2009 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers, Mayne Medical School, Herston Rd. Herston Topic: Dr Fisher and Rev Bayes or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the P-value Confusi...

Dr Wendy Wills, Snr Research Fellow, Uni of Hertfordshire, UK

Sep 8, 2009
Date: Tuesday, 8 September 2009 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre, Mayne Medical School, Herston Topic: Taking account of cultural and socio-economic forces in the fight against teenage obesity

Philip Davies, Professor of Health Systems & Policy

Sep 1, 2009
Date: Tuesday, 1 September 2009 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers, Mayne Medical School, Herston Rd. Herston Topic: The National Health & Hospitals Reform Commission: Prescribing: The final report of...

Wayne Hall, NHMRC Australia Fellow, Professor of Public Health Policy,

Aug 18, 2009
Date: Tuesday, 18 August 2009 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre, Mayne Medical School, Herston Topic: What (if any) are the “Policy Lessons” of National Prohibition in the USA 1920-1933?

Professor Robert Gilbert

Aug 10, 2009
Date: Tuesday, 11 August 2009 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre, Herston Rd. Herston Topic: Starch structure, your lunch and your life Starch is the largest single component of our food en...

Dr Sibnath Deb,Endeavour Executive Award Fellow,Visiting Faculty, School of Public Health

Aug 7, 2009
Date: Friday, 7 August 2009 Time: 12pm - 1pm Venue: Room 113, Public Health Bldg. Herston Topic: Efficacy of an intervention programme to impart reproductive and sexual health education Adolescents are b...

Dr Lisa Fitzgerald, Public Health Sociologist

Aug 4, 2009
Date: Tuesday, 4 August 2009 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre, Mayne Medical Schoo, Herston Rd. Herston Topic: The Health and safety of sex workers in a decriminalised environment: the New Zealand experie...

Dr Kurt Long, Human Population Biologist

Jul 28, 2009
Date: Tuesday, 28 July 2009 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers Lecture Theatre, Mayne Medical School, Herston Topic: Development of more effective micronutrient supplementation programs that address community heteroge

Electives seminar for postgraduate students

May 13, 2009
Tuesday, 13 May 2008 - Tuesday, 13 May 2008 On Tuesday 13 May the School will host an information seminar to help students choose electives for second semester. The seminar, to be held at 5.00pm in Room 113 of the Public Hea...

Samia Goudie, Lecturer, Indigenous Health

Oct 27, 2008
Date: Tuesday, 27 October 2009 Time: 1pm - 2pm Venue: ES Meyers, Mayne Medical School, Herston Rd. Herston Topic: Empowerment through Digital Storytelling in Indigenous Communities: The Hopevale-Pelican Experience

Orientation for new students 19 February

Feb 19, 2008
Tuesday, 19 February 2008 The School of Population Health will be holding an Orientation Day for students commencing in Semester 1, 2008. The Orientation day will be held: Tuesday 19 February from 9am ...

Burden of Disease workshop starts 26 November

Nov 26, 2007
Monday, 26 November 2007 - Wednesday, 5 December 2007 Next month SPH will again hold its renowned workshop on practical aspects of conducting a national burden of disease and injury study. The intensive 8-day worksh...

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