University of Tasmania, Australia

Included in this Issue:

• News
• Activities
• Staff
• Events
• Director's Note

Included in this Issue:

• News
• Projects
• Staff
• Events
• Director's Note

Included in this Issue:

• From the Director
• Climate Change
• Building a research culture
• Brighton project

Included in this Issue:

• Rural Exercise Research
• Building Research Services for Policy Makers
• 8th PHCRED Symposium
• Aboriginal Leader Program Success
• National Food Futures Conference
• ClimateConnect grant success
• 2011 Rural Health Week
• Suicide Prevention Life Member award
• Australian Crime & Voilence Prevention award
• New Staff
• UTAS Grants awarded
• Mental Health partnership
• Write Up Scholarships awarded
• Seminar Series update
• 2011 Graduate Research Symposium
• Pharmacy News
• Mental Health specialist workshop
• From the Director's Desk

Included in this Issue:

• UDRH publish new books
• Food security and health risk
• Building ResearchServices for Policy Makers
• Yoga poses health hope
• Rural Health Week 2011
• Strategic Research Funds awarded
• Rural Health Week 2011 Launch
• PHCRED research fellows join UDRH
• 11th National Rural Health Conference
• Welcome to new RHD candidates
• Elite Scholarships
• Staff Changes
• New Appointments
• Other News - in brief
• Pharmacy News
• Positions Vacant
• UDRH 2012 Strategic Priorities
• Men's Health Focus at Agfest
• New Masters of E-Health
• Current Community Health & Development Grants
• From the Director's Desk
• Contact Details

Included in this Issue:

• UDRH and West Tamar Council partnership
• Mobile skilled workforce
• Elite Research Scholarships
• Graduate research news
• Rural Health Week 2011
• Health and wellbeing book
• Food for thought workshop
• ARC Linkage
• Simulation and interprofessional learning workshop
• Rural health teaching sites go wireless
• E-Health
• Climate change and rural child health
• Making a difference
• PHCRED mentorship scheme
• Prostate cancer awareness
• Youth health promotion
• Health impact assessment
• Pharmacy news
• Accessibility to primary health care
• TAS research student support
• ACAP bursary
• UDRH seminar series
• Professors Gert Westert and David Karoly
• In brief
• Stepping up to the challenge
• UDRH capability statement
• Staff promotions
• Islands of aging
• From the Director's Desk
• Upcoming training opportunities

Included in this Issue:

• From the Director's Desk – January 2010

• Graduate Research news – January 2010

• Enhancing health service provision in Meander Valley community 
• OzHelp extended to broader audiences 
• Putting health on the map 
• Social Norms work remains in the spotlight 
• Recruitment and retention a challenge for the Tasmanian allied health and oral health workforce 
• Staying healthy in difficult times 
• Sustainable Farm Families – Circular Head Pilot Project

• The art of health and wellbeing 
• A friend in need…
• Thriving in challenging circumstances
• OUP releases new translational research book from UDRH

• RCS Visiting Research Fellow program 2009 
• Research Muster investigates health research in the North West

• Closer collaboration between UDRH and DHHS  

• Celebrating rural health!
• First graduate from the Master of Health (E-Health Specialisation) Program
• Sue Whetton recognised for contribution to health informatics
• UDRH scholar chairs the International Congress of Morita Therapy
• PHCRED update

• Sharon Dennis meets the national Indigenous Staff Network

• Upcoming training opportunities (Jan – Mar 2010)
• A review of the 2009 UDRH Seminar Series  
• Pay a visit to the Rural Health Training Events website 

• In brief – January 2010 

Included in this Issue:

• From the Acting Co-Directors' desk – May 2009

• Graduate Research news – May 2009

• Teenagers gain research skills
• Pilot study to map community cancer health-needs profile
• Role of schools in alcohol education

• Ha Hoang obtains a grant to present at an international conference
• Anna Spinaze gets support to attend the National Rural Health Conference

• Evaluating students’ RIPPER experience
• Getting Australian rural health professionals ready for climate change
• Negotiating work and life in rural Australia
• Improving maternity care for Asian migrants
• New publication: Critical Discourse Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

• Enhancing North West health research opportunities
• North West Coast research news
• North West health professionals undertaking Graduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning
• RCS student excellence and career directions

• Tuning in to the notes of Rural Health Week
• Youth health service SNAPs up positive messages
• Climate change and rural Tasmania
• Dental researcher Rosemary Cane receives award of excellence
• Youth alcohol expertise recognised
• PHCRED update

• Upcoming training opportunities (May – Aug 2009)
• UDRH seminar – The community care system for people with dementia
• UDRH seminar – Getting them and keeping them?
• UDRH seminar – Difficult-to-engage families
• Pay a visit to the Rural Health Training Events website

• In brief - May 2009

Included in this Issue:

• From the Director's Desk – November 2008

• Graduate Research news – November 2008
• A time to research and a time to share

• UDRH obtains various grants for its research projects 

• International audience for UDRH’s Social Norms work 
• A RIPPER initiative from the UDRH
• Health informatics through the eyes of overseas-born practitioners
• Articles “of substance” by Clarissa Hughes
• East meets West — Global challenges in psychotherapy 
• PHCRED initiative achieving results
• Conversations with our community
• Being a mother and a migrant in a new country 
• Sustaining rural volunteers in Tasmania
• Exploring education challenges for older workers and volunteers
• Enabling community participation 
• Readiness of Health Science teachers for inter-professional learning 
• Building the evidence base for rural child health  
• Community health and arts 
• Another look at culture, quality and performance 
• Impact of climate change on rural GP education and training
• How can research better serve rural communities?

• Children’s behaviour becomes the focus for Health Research Matters 

• Rural health partner: Tasmanian Westside Pharmacy wins national awards 

• UDRH Director to chair national rural health body
• Leading edge UDRH e-health courses open for registration
• Rural Health Week 2007 secures finalist berth at the Tasmanian Community Achievement Awards
• Eight years of rural health research
• PHCRED update

• Tasmanian Aboriginal Health Summit

• Upcoming Training Opportunities (Nov 2008 – Feb 2009)
• UDRH seminar – Lifestyle change for people at risk of type 2 diabetes 
• UDRH seminar – Building a healthier future of no alcohol
• UDRH seminar – Adapting to rural communities by overseas born health professionals
• UDRH seminar – Can a good night’s sleep really fight obesity?
• Pay a visit to the Rural Health Training Events website 

• In brief – November 2008 

Included in this Issue:

• From the Director's Desk – May 2008
• A short message from UDRH Director

• Graduate Research news – May 2008
• A time to inspire and a time to celebrate!
• Postgraduate student Lorraine Smith to research the role of pharmacists
• From papers to a book

• Rural Tasmanian volunteers are hiding their light under a bushel
• “Winding down of life and limb” or “A time for Action”?
• Social engagement of adolescents and young adults with intellectual disability

• UDRH researcher wins Oxford book contract
• UDRH/TILES project showcased in leading youth journal
• Evaluating health science students’ attitudes to interprofessional learning experiences
• From quality we learn
• Australian rural health discourse in the eyes of overseas born health professionals
• Rural Health chapter for high-profile textbook
• Research into West African refugee health
• Handling emotional intelligence in intercultural healthcare 
• Youth policy work wins international recognition 
• Intercultural issues in conducting healthcare qualitative research 
• UDRH student shares her Tai Chi study with other researchers in Japan 
• Sharing Rural Health Week experiences with mainland universities 
• Getting your PhD 

• Rural Health Partner: Older Persons Reference Group, Northern Tasmania

• Enhancing North West health research opportunities

• Rural health teaching site opened at St Helens
• Congratulations to Kim Boyer as Chair of Tasmanian Academy
• Regener8 meets the Prime Minister
• Medication Management Packages for Enrolled and Registered Nurses re-accredited for 3 years
• Who’s Who of Australian Women
• Good News for the UDRH!
• June Hazzlewood appointed an advisor to National Seniors Productive Ageing Centre
• Going Green
• PHCRED updates

• Upcoming training opportunities (May – August 2008)
• UDRH seminar – Playing nicely together
• UDRH seminar – University-Health service partnership
• UDRH seminar – Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder
• Pay a visit to the Rural Health Training Events website

• Briefs - May 2008

Included in this Issue:

• From the Director's Desk – October 2007

• Graduate Research news – October 2007
• Sharing   excellence in research

• 2007 Census of Tasmanian General Practitioners
• An investigation into the allied health workforce in Tasmania
• Ensuring a sustainable volunteer force in regional Tasmania

• PHCRED conference travel scholarships awarded

• Shandell Elmer to publish a new book on sociology for nurses
• The role of clinical placement programs in recruiting new dental graduates
• UDRH researcher leads feature article for top-ranking international criminology journal
• What research can make a difference to rural health policy?
• Health outsourcing in a rural context
• Intercultural issues in conducting healthcare qualitative research
• Peg LeVine presented at the International Morita Therapy Congress
• Demonisation, politics and religion: Influences on mental health
• Sharing Tasmanian community engagement experiences
• Listening to listening
• Sue Whetton presented at the prestigious MedInfo World Congress
• Tips on program evaluations
• Experience sharing between Tasmania and Scotland 
• Building effective community partnerships for rural health service provision 
• It’s never too late to be a cyber opsimath
• Social capital, third sector organisations and health policy 

• Rural health partner: Shaun Probert

• ARC Linkage Grant to extend rural healthy ageing research

• PHCRED Annual Research Symposium
• Rural health researchers joining the prestigious ARC/NHMRC network
• A new dimension for rural health
• What I think
• Rural social capital and networks forum
• Regeneration of a rural community – Bushfire and recovery
• Internet forum for Early Years Network

• Community development for health professionals short course
• Upcoming training opportunities (November – December 2007)
• Rural Health Week seminar: Health change – Key challenges
• Smiles alive: A carer’s perspective
• UDRH seminar – Rural mental health assessment and treatment
• UDRH seminar – Care and wellbeing: Creating a better future for Tasmania’s   children
• Pay a visit to the Rural Health Training Events website 

• Briefs - October 2007

Included in this Issue:

• From the Director's Desk – April 2007

• Graduate Research Student Profile: Andrew Harris
• Call for Contribution to Graduate Research Papers in Rural Health
• Graduate Research Activities

• Meander Valley Health and Wellbeing Map Project
• Protecting Small Children from Family Violence
• A National Online Interprofessional Support and Education Strategy for Rural and Remote Clinical Educators

• Paramedic Research Bursary 2007 Granted to Glenn Aslin
• UDRH Wins CPC Kickstart Seed Funds

• Sharing Research Findings with National Audiences
• Quynh Lê Presenting at the 12th World Congress on Medinfo 2007
• Of International Journals, Community Projects, and Research Permacultures
• Rural Health Student Suzette Seaton to Present at Hot Milk Conference
• Embracing Pharmacy in Rural Interprofessional Education – a RIPPER!
• Supportive Care of Rural Women with Breast Cancer in Tasmania
• “Dead in the Water”?: Is Violent Crime Prevention Research Working for Rural Communities?
• Innovative Roles for Rural Paramedics 
• Georgie Routley to Speak on Challenges Facing Dementia Diagnosis 

• Rural Health Partner: The Midlands Multi-Purpose Health Centre

• Expanded Team at the RCS and a Further Boost to Simulation-based Training

• Celebrating your Rural Health!
• UDRH Director Appointed an Inaugural Board Member of the Tasmanian Early Years Foundation
• Building a Tasmanian Social Capital Network

• Upcoming Training Opportunities (April – June 2007)
• UDRH Seminar – Supporting Vulnerable Children in their First Five Years of Life
• UDRH Seminar - Tasmanian Breast Cancer Care   Resource for Community Health Workers
• Pay a Visit to the Rural Health Training Events Site

• Briefs - April 2007

Included in this Issue:

• From the Director's Desk - October 2006

• Graduate Research Retreat in October 2006
• Graduate Research Student Profile: Michael McCall

• Rural Community Youth Project Gains Momentum
• Furneaux Group Community Health Needs Mapping Exercise
• Strengthening Professional Support Networks for Parents

• Rosa McManamey Wins the Top Accolade
• UDRH Project to Increase Rural Resilience Wins UTAS Community Engagement Grant

• UDRH Researcher Looks into Effectiveness of Calcium Supplementation
• Morita Therapy outside Asia
• UDRH Paper to be Published in Top French Medical Anthropology Textbook
• Learning through Research: A Regional University and its Community
• Knowing the Pharmacist Preceptors
• Factors Affecting GP Workforce Participation in Tasmania
• Multi-professional Research Higher Degree Program Featured in AMEE

• Rural Health Partner – Longford Surgery

• The Hoc Mai Student Bursary to Vietnam 2006
• Patient Safety the Driver for Skills Centre Development

• A RIPPER in Scottsdale!
• UDRH Develops a CD Resource to Support Rural Placement
• Congratulations to the 2006 E-Health Graduates
• E-Health (Health Informatics) Course Review
• Tasmania First with the Development of a New Intravenous Management Module
• Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation & Development Update
• A Study into Social Connection among Older Tasmanians
• Health Careers Education for North West Coast Year 9 Students: An Innovative Pilot Program
• UDRH Executive Management Group Meeting

• Back to the Future

• Upcoming Training Opportunities (Nov – Dec 2006)
• UDRH Seminar 9 – Theories of Addiction for Strategic Policy
• UDRH Seminar 10 – Responding to Health Skills Shortages
• Pay a Visit to the Rural Health Training Events Site

• Briefs - October 2006

Included in this Issue:

• From the Director's Desk - June 2006

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• Quynh Lê Wins Double Grants to Advansce her Knowledge in Spatial Analysis

• Support Program Sharpens Students' Research Skills
• UDRH Research Student's Work Reaches a Wider Audience

• UDRH Helps Build Brighter Futures for Children in Burnie

• Sue Kilpatrick Proposes Innovative Solutions to Skill Shortages
• Rosemary Cane Presents Encouraging Results from Dental Undergraduate Placement Program in Tasmania
• UDRH Service Design Study Accepted in Top International Journal
• UDRH Papers at the "Senses of Place" Conference
• UDRH Paper Accepted for SPERA's National Rural Education Conference
• UDRH Volunteering Study Makes a Stage in International Publication
• Quynh Lê Elaborates on Cultural Meaning in Health Communication
• Health Research that Speaks to Policy Makers and Practitioners

• Rural Health Care Partner: May Shaw Health Centre

• UDRH Tasmania Hosts the ISN National Meeting

• The North West Leads the Way in Health Careers Education

• Rural Health Teaching Site Network Grows from Strength to Strength
• Martin Harris Shares his Expertise on Men and Suicide
• Rosalind Bull Conducted a Preceptorship Workshop for ANZ Radiotherapists
• UDRH Supports Professional Development of Australian Physiotherapists

• Upcoming Training Opportunities July – September
• UDRH Seminar 6 - Designing a Residential Service for Adolescents with Substance Abuse Issues in Tasmania
• Pay a Visit to the Rural Health Training Events Home Page

• Briefs - June 2006

Included in this Issue:

• New Collaboration Wins $500K Grant to Target Youth Binge-Drinking
• Developing Expertise in Aged Service Needs
• Valuable New Resource for the Health Sector
• UDRH Seminar Series Starts in Spectacular Style
• UDRH Helps Build Better Communities for Children
• Rural Clinical School: Building Capacity - the Teaching Recognition Program
• Enthusiasm at the Interactive Graduate Research School
• Extending the Horizon through Research
• Can Lessons be Learnt from Rural?
• Graduate Research Support Program
• The UDRH Front Office Puts on a More Welcoming Look
• Martin Harris Receives the 2005 Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Outstanding Community Engagement
• AUCEA Conference Provides Valuable Insights for Community Engagement
• Conference Papers and Refereed Papers by UDRH Staff
• A Report on Overseas Visits
• Report from the Theme Area Leaders
• PHC RED to Go for another Four Years
• St Marys Adopt-a-Centre Pilot Project
• Briefs
• New Appointment at the UDRH

Included in this Issue:

• New Positions and Responsibilities Announced
• Surge in Research Grants, Consultancies in 2005
• An Overview from the Professor of Rural Health, Judi Walker
• Graduate Research Grabs the Limelight
• Research Students Supported by Seminar Program
• Graduate Research Website Unveiled
• Clinicians, Capacity Building, Collaboration and Critical Reflection
• Success for Skill Shortage Submission
• Quynh Le a Queenly Figure at Elite Course
• Erica Bell – Busy Bee!
• Unmasking the Mysteries of Dementia
• UDRH Staffer Contributes to a Unique Publication ‘IN YOUR OWN RIGHT Black Australian Nurses’ stories’
• UDRH Research Capacity Strengthened by Appointment of Distinguished Academic
• Inter-Professional Learning in the Tamar Valley
• Falls Prevention Becomes Public Property
• Community Health Strategies Planned in an Iconic Rural Setting
• Rosalie Run off Her Feet at Health Careers Camps
• Teaching Teachers Vital Skills
• A Meeting of the Minds on Rural Topics
• Karla Peek – A Journey Through Learning
• Professional Development and Continuing Education for Health Professionals (PD&CE)
• Briefs

Included in this Issue:

• Agreed Recommendations from the 8th National Rural Health Conference
• Reflections on the 8th National Rural Health Conference - Alice Springs, March 2005
• Partners in HealthWorkshops on Workforce Planning and Education Facilitated by Distinguished International Academic
• New Responsibilities for Sue Whetton
• Graduate Research Induction Workshop
• Higher Degree ‘Hat Trick’
• SA Ambulance Service: An Organisational Response to Volunteer Research
• Recognition of International Journal for Tasmanian Research
• PEP in the Step at Hobart Launch of Pills Program
• Variety Adds Spice to Daily Dose for Rural Pharmacy All-Rounder
• Sandy’s Skills Save Tsunami Suffering
• Giving the University a Friendly Face
• Brad Wray, the Medical Way
• Rose Tilsley, a Jolly Good Sport
• Academic Rural Health Goes West
• Rural Health Presence at Meander Valley Health Expo
• Researchers - Are You Interested?

Included in this Issue:

• The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Daryl Le Grew, comments on UDRH and The EDGE Agenda
• Senior research fellow honoured by University Alumni
• UDRH Tasmania enhances its role through innovative collaborations with local government
• Cash injection has healthy outcomes
• Practical ‘in service’ help for professionals in rural practice
• Partners in oral health fill the gap in public dental care
• Integration of hospital and GP services showcased
• Grass roots clinical program attracts international interest
• UDRH program wins national recognition
• Rural Health Careers Program expanded to meet demand & interest
• It’s the personal touch that matters
• UDRH staff carry their message far and wide
• Radical facelift for UDRH’s Annual Report
• University moves to reduce road risk for staff
• Trivial fun has serious benefits
• Dentistry, destiny and black-faced sheep
• Research apprentice practises her craft
• Financial and academic support for rural health researchers
• Using sound criteria-based assessment: what does this mean in the education of health professionals?
• A contrastive study of on-line communicative functions between undergraduate and postgraduate students
• What Do You Want to Know & Why Do You Want to Know It?
• A national education strategy for pharmacist preceptors: an Australian collaborative model
• Introducing falls risk assessment into GP Practices
• Student nurses’ use of space as an indicator of professional development
• The role of injury prevention in hospital emergency departments
• Intercultural health metaphors
• Briefs...and Program Notes...

Included in this Issue:

• The Rural Health Research Higher Degrees (RHD) Program
• Filling the gap in oral health and public dental care
• Christine puts her hand up for volunteers
• Faculty of Health Science Academic Rural Health Reference Group formed
• Clarissa assists in national postgraduate project
• Helen makes a study of health promotional activities of pharmacists
• Stars away from home under the microscope
• Lisa to apply a research focus to a practical rural education program
• Collaborative venture to benefit Tasmanians living with cancer and chronic disease in rural settings
• A change in emphasis - E.D.G.E.
• Students sample special treats of country practice
• New facility supports rural health practice in country areas
• Health checked out at our ONE STOP HOT SPOT!
• University to the fore at Deloraine Health Expo
• 'What about Me?'
• Rural Academic Indigenous Staff Network Conference

Included in this Issue:

• Prospecting for Rural Health Scholarships
• Scholarships Awareness
• Stephen Cottrill - E-Health and Rural Health Practice
• Profile: Alice Downie John Flynn Scholarship
• An interview with Melinda Chilvers
• Profile: Blair Adamczewski
• Rural and Remote Area Placement Program (RRAPP)
• Profile: Kellie Seymour
• Community immersion whets the appetite of future rural health professionals
• Professional development a priority in falls prevention

Included in this Issue:

• New Rural Health Academic Appointed
• Open Sesame to Doctors in the House at Smithton
• Rural Health Teaching Sites Milestone: Campbell Town Makes Ten!
• Ladies and Gentlemen - Be Upstanding!
• Managing Grief in a Positive Way
• Bridging the Gap for Indigenous Students
• From the Saltbush of South Australia to the Mists of Scottsdale
• Tele-check Suicide Prevention Program for West Coast
• Health Science Students are our Best Ambassadors
• Unique Collaboration Bears Fruit for Health Professionals
• Health Careers in Action at Camp Clayton
• Staff Milestones & Achievements