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APHCRI Workforce Travelling Fellowships

The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute announced six successful recipients of APHCRI Workforce Travelling Fellowships in 2008.
The Workforce Travelling Fellowships provided Stream Six project members the opportunity to share lessons learned in Australia with an international audience and facilitate policy exchange and collaboration around the world.

Successful Applicants

• Associate Professor Jill Thistlethwaite (University of Sydney) visited the University of British Columbia and Northern Ontario School of Medicine for the project: Enhancing primary care and general practice as a career choice.
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• Dr Jenny May (University of Newcastle) visited the University of Manchester and University of Northern British Columbia for the project: Skill mix translation - top down or bottom up? An international comparison.

• Professor James Dunbar and Dr Prasuna Reddy (Greater Green Triangle University Department of Rural Health) visited the University of Washington, McClelland Institute for Innovation and Research, Harvard University, Dartmouth Medical School, the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, Princeton; the Diabetes Research & Training center, Kaiser-Permanente and RAND Corp for the project: Chronic disease management models as examples of organisational developmental approaches in primary care.
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• Dr Rhian Parker (University of Canberra) and Professor Helen Keleher (Monash University) visited the University of Manchester, the University of Southampton and the National Health Service in London for the collaborative project: Preparing nurses for primary health care reforms.
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• Associate Professor David Perkins (University of Sydney) visited the University of Utrecht and University of Manchester and attend the Future of Primary Health Care in Europe Conference for the project: Examining the implications of Stream Six review in an international context: primary mental health service research, policy and delivery in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
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• Dr Victoria Palmer and Professor Jane Gunn (University of Melbourne) visited the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, Case Western Reserve University and the Robert Graham Center for the project: Arranging generalism in the 2020 primary health care team.
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