Population & Health theme area:
Teaching and Research in this theme area are carried out in the Faculty of Health Science (with its Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing & Midwifery, and Human Life Sciences, and its Dept of Rural Health and Rural Clinical School) as well as in the Schools of Psychology, Sociology & Social Work, Computing & Information Systems, and Economics & Finance. This theme area incorporates the work of the expanding Menzies Research Institute and the Centre for Clinical Research and is enhanced by the Partners in Health strategic relationship with the Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and by the active support of health professionals nationally and internationally.
The health and wellbeing of Australians is a significant national priority. Our research and teaching programmes utilise the advantages of working with the Tasmanian population, which has unique characteristics being dispersed in a rural island environment. The programmes range across the basic biomedical sciences, epidemiology and clinical studies as well as the social sciences that are critical in understanding the behaviour of people in relation to their health. Preventative health, education and health promotion play an important role in this theme, as do the social and economic factors that are also determinants of health and wellbeing. Many of the studies take advantage of well-established links with the Tasmanian population.
Population & Health theme area coordinator:
The coordinator for this theme area is A/Prof Dom Geraghty
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In 2008 the UTAS ' Population and Health ' Theme Area sponsored the following award:
Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) Medical Research Week (29 May-June 8) Student Award
Chosen from 20 applicants, the four finalists
were PhD candidates, Catherine Blizzard, Costan Magnussen and Helen Cameron-Tucker from the Menzies Research Institute, and Cassandra Saunders from the School of Human Life Sciences.
See the ASMR Finalists (incl Dr Tracey Dickson (ASMR State Representative), second from right, with 2008 ASMR Student Award Finalists, Catherine Blizzard, Helen Cameron-Tucker, Cassandra Saunders and Costan Magnussen ). After presenting their work to a gathering of more than 50 members of the Faculty of Health Science and a panel of judges, the finalists spent the afternoon talking research with the 2008 ASMR Medallist, Prof Sir Gustav Nossal AC ABE. The winner of the 2008 Student Award, Catherine Blizzard, and the other finalists were presented prizes at the ASMR Medical Research Week dinner ‘Sir Gus'.
See the 2008 ASMR Student Award winner, Catherine Blizzard, with 2008 ASMR Medallist, Prof Sir Gustav Nossal AC ABE.
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The UTAS ' Population and Health ' Theme Area wishes to promote the following colloquium:
Human Genetic Biobanks: Achieving world's best practice in Tasmania
It is being held by the Centre for Law and Genetics in collaboration with the Menzies Research Institute on 13th December, 2007
Information about this event can be found at http://www.lawgenecentre.org/Collo.html
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The UTAS ' Population and Health ' Theme Area is sponsoring a satellite meeting on the "Neurobiology of the Ageing Brain" in association with the International Brain Research Organization World Congress of Neuroscience - the meeting is on the 10th July, 2007 and details are available at: http://embi.nsma.arizona.edu/IBRO/IBROAgingSatellite.html
The UTAS ' Population and Health ' Theme Area is also co-organising a one-day Forum on "Health Care Reform: Challenges and Opportunities" - the forum is on the 8th June, 2007. Download details (PDF). ( Seats are limited ).
And, as a NEW posting, the UTAS ' Population and Health ' Theme Area is also supporting the UTAS Students' Bioethics Society and its inaugural forum: A FORUM ON END OF LIFE ISSUES AND EUTHENASIA held on 9th June, 2007. Download details (PDF).
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