Professor Chris Goodnow
, Head of the Department of Immunology at JCSMR
2nd Annual John Curtin Lecture in Medical Research, entitled 'Switching the immune system off: the keys to autoimmunity, allergy, immune…
Dr Bob Wells
, Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute
The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute held an Information Session for prospective applicants for funding…
Dr Brian Mittman
, Brian Mittman, PhD is Director of the VA Center for Implementation Practice and Research Support at the Veteran Affairs Greater
Improvements in healthcare quality, safety and efficiency require the coordinated involvement and contributions…
Professor Perminder Sachdev
New research criteria for vascular cognitive disorders: Toward a VASCOG consensus
Professor Julio Licinio
Welcome and overview, 1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry
Professor Colin Masters
Professor Colim Masters - Biomarkers inform therapeutic strategies in neuropsychiatric disease
Professor Ian Everall
Professor Ian Everall - Gene expression in schizophrenia: Mechanism and biomarkers
Professor Philip Mitchell
1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry Professor Philip Mitchell - A high risk…
Professor Malcolm Horne
Professor Malcolm Horne - Plasma alpha synuclein as risk marker for Parkinson's disease
Professor Julio Licinio
1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry - Keynote Address
A sneak peak at the future of psychiatry
Professor Ian Hickie
Professor Ian Hickie - Neuropsychological and circadian predictors of illness progression in young people with mood disorders
1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry
1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry - Round table discussion The future of scienctific publishing: When to go to new venues, When to stick to traditioanl journals. Chaired…
Professor Helen Christensen and Dr Kathy Griffiths
From population trials to public health practice: An example of a Global Health Service
Professor Michael Berk
Early in tervention neuroprogression and neuroprotection: Pathways to progressive brain changes and novel therapeutic targets.
Professor Jonathan Lomas
Professor Jonathan Lomas
Mr Bob Wells, Dir APHCRI; Ms Vicki Murphy, Dept of Health and Ageing; Dr Dagmar Ceramidas, APHCRI, and Mr Will Wright
The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) at The Australian National University (ANU) has opened…
Professor Barabara Wolfe
, Institute of Medicine (IOM)
In this lecture, Professor Wolfe will examine the relationship between income and health in the US and in Australia. In both nations, negative health behaviours are concentrated among the less educated…
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,…
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 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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology & Director, Unit for Biocultural Variation & Obesity, University of Oxford
Obesity has increased dramatically across the world, and there is currently no solution to its control. While obesity is easily understood as the positive imbalance of energy intake and…
Professor Debra Humphris, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Education & Professor of Health Care Development, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Research findings and government reports indicate Australia's primary health care workforce is facing significant challenges and is lagging behind in its use of teamwork approaches. The National Health…
Professor W. Graham Richards, Head of the Centre for Computational Drug Discovery, Oxford University
One of the few attractive ways of escaping the current economic depression is to create new companies and new industries. Scientific research provides perhaps the best starting point. Just how this…
Professor Michael Good AO, Director of The Queensland Institute for Medical Research
Learning how to harness the power of the immune system to combat infectious killers has been one of the most dramatic developments in the history of medicine. Eradication of smallpox and the near…
Professor Jim Butler, Dr Francesco Paolucci and Henry Ergas
Like many other countries, Australia is facing significantly increased costs in the future in maintaining the health of its people. In coming decades we will have more people suffering from chronic…
Professor Christopher C Goodnow, Director, Immunology and Genetics Division, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU
World Day of Immunology 2008 Public Lecture What defines us as individuals? What makes us both similar and different to other individuals, other species? These are great…
Professor Larry May, Professor of Philosophy, Washington University
For several thousand years, philosophers, lawyers, and theologians have developed a theory of the just war, where rules are set for deciding when a war should be fought and what tactics can be employed…
Sir Richard G A Feachem, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (2002-2007)
The last five years have seen a remarkable increase in the level of financing and commitment in the war against AIDS, TB and Malaria. This period has also witnessed remarkable innovations in the business…
Professor Peter Glasner
Ever since Dolly the sheep was cloned, there has been much debate in the media and public spheres about the ethics and morality of genetic…
Dr Kristen Pammer, School of Psychology, ANU College of Science
There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way. The brain is probably the most complex thing on earth, and yet we know very little about how…
Professor Suzanne Cory, Director, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne
In this lecture, Professor Cory will give a personal perspective on her career, covering how she came to become a molecular biologist and how her fascination with chromosomes led her into cancer research…
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