Menzies Centre for Health Policy, The Nous Group
The Menzies Centre for Health Policy, together with The Nous Group, has recently completed a survey of 1,200 Australians to gain insight into their attitudes towards the health and aged care system,…
Menzies Centre for Health Policy , The Nous Group
The Menzies Centre for Health Policy, together with The Nous Group, has recently completed a survey of 1,200 Australians to gain insight into their attitudes towards the health and aged care system,…
Adjunct Professor Steven Lewis
, Adjunct Professor of Health Policy at the University of Calgary and Simon Fraser University
Insurance has been a dominant concept in health care in the industrialized world since the late 19th century, originating in the Bismarckian welfare state. Today, insurance is a method for organizing…
2010 Lions Oratory Competition
In this year's Sixteenth Annual Lions Oratory Competition, student representatives from the ANU Colleges competed for the perpetual Oratory Trophy and prizes totaling $3,000 in cash. The objective…
Facilitated by Ms Julie McCrossin
, Freelance Journalist
ANU presents a roundtable series that will contribute significantly to the health reform agenda in Australia. The fourth event in the series is ‘Youth mental health: is anybody listening?'…
Dr Martin Parkinson
, Secretary, Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
This lecture is the ninth annual Sir Leslie Melville Lecture presented by the Australian National University.
The introduction of an emissions trading scheme in Australia constitutes a significant…
Dr Sergei Grigoryev
, Milton S. Hersey Medical Center, Penn State University
The DNA in our cells is tightly packed into structures called chromosomes. The role of the physical structure of chromosomes in diseases and genetics is being explored thanks to recent advances in technology…
Dr Martin Parkinson
, Secretary, Department of Climate Change
This symposium brought together key experts to discuss the future of Climate Change action in Australia, 6 months after the Copenhagen Climate Change summit.
Dr Judith Ajani
, Economist, Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU
Many plantation managed investment companies have collapsed. A pulp mill proposal struggles to find financiers. A stock exchange listed forestry company requests a share trading halt while it tries…
This lecture consisted of a panel of leading health care experts
Professor Ian Chubb, Vice-Chancellor of The Australian National University, and the Honourable Warren Snowdon MP, Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Services Delivery,…
Dr Aaron Bernstein
, Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston
Biodiversity loss, namely a reduction in the variety of life on Earth, continues relatively unabated worldwide. Biodiversity loss represents far more than a loss to experience nature's beauty or to…
Professor Will Steffen
, Executive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute
Over the past few months, the climate change challenge has taken some odd twists and turns. The COP15 meeting in Copenhagen was widely condemned in the press as a failure; the Australian Government…
Are GP Super Clinics the answer to the access problems?
, Moderated by Mr Robert Wells, Director of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute
Professor Ian Chubb, Vice-Chancellor of The Australian National University, and the Honourable Warren Snowdon MP, Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Services Delivery,…
Hosted by Professor Will Steffen
, Executive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute
What really went on at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference? Was it a fiasco or a positive step forward? Those are some of the questions that were addressed by a panel of experts at The Australian…
Dr Andrew Bazemore
, Assistant Director, Robert Graham Center, Washington DC
Since President Barrack Obama took office early this year, Congress has proposed bold actions to address the ailing United States health care system. In a system that spends $2.4 trillion each year…
Professor Pim Cuijpers
, Professor of Clinical Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam
Depression is expected to be the disorder with the highest burden in western countries by 2030. Treating the disease has limited impact, but can prevention of depression help in reducing this burden?…
Professor Tony McMichael and Professor John Mackenzie
, National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, ANU and Formerly of the World Health Organisation
Climate change raises a number of challenges to human wellbeing, among these is the threat to our health. In combination with climate change, large-scale global environmental changes such…
Rod Quantock, Comedian, Writer and Climate Change Activist
Rod Quantock says, "If climate change doesn't scare you, then you don't get the science." Fortunately Quantock does, and when he gives you his take on the physics, chemistry, biology, geology, palaeontology,…
Professor Greg Gibson, Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Integrative Genomics Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
This address introduces the ideas in Professor Greg Gibson's new book It Takes a Genome. The last two years have seen a revolution in genome scientists' ability to find the genes…
Dr Stephen Campbell, Senior Research Fellow, National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester
Governments, internationally and in Australia, are increasingly encouraging team-based care in frontline health systems using various incentives. Dr Campbell will provide an overview of the impact of…
Dr Kurt Stange, Professor of Family Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Oncology and Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Commonwealth Government needs to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Australia's health care system. Primary health care provides the first point of contact for patients and is touted as the…
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