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Switching the immune system off: the keys to autoimmunity, allergy, immune deficiency and cancer (November 16 2011)

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…

Centre of Research Excellence round 3 information session (November 07 2011)

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…

Coordinating public & private sector efforts to improve healthcare quality & performance (July 27 2011)

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 (April 04 2011)

Professor Perminder Sachdev

New research criteria for vascular cognitive disorders: Toward a VASCOG consensus

1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry - Welcome and overview (April 04 2011)

Professor Julio Licinio

Welcome and overview, 1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry

Professor Colim Masters - Biomarkers inform therapeutic strategies in neuropsychiatry (April 04 2011)

Professor Colin Masters

Professor Colim Masters - Biomarkers inform therapeutic strategies in neuropsychiatric disease

Professor Ian Everall - Gene expression in schizophrenia (April 04 2011)

Professor Ian Everall

Professor Ian Everall - Gene expression in schizophrenia: Mechanism and biomarkers

Professor Philip Mitchell - A high risk longitudinal study of offspring of patients with bipolar (April 04 2011)

Professor Philip Mitchell

1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry

Professor Philip Mitchell - A high risk…

Professor Malcolm Horne - Plasma alpha synuclein as risk marker for Parkinsons (April 04 2011)

Professor Malcolm Horne

Professor Malcolm Horne - Plasma alpha synuclein as risk marker for Parkinson's disease

1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry - Keynote Address (April 04 2011)

Professor Julio Licinio

1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry - Keynote Address

A sneak peak at the future of psychiatry

Professor Ian Hickie - Predictors of illness progression in young people with mood disorders (April 04 2011)

Professor Ian Hickie

Professor Ian Hickie - Neuropsychological and circadian predictors of illness progression in young people with mood disorders 

Professor Stephen Koslow - Translational research and personalised medicine (April 04 2011)

Professor Stephen Koslow

Professor Stephen Koslow - Translational research and personalised medicine A formula for Success for psychiatry and mentally ill patients

1st National Symposium on Translational Psychiatry - Round Table Panel Discussion (April 04 2011)

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…

Prof Helen Christensen & Dr Kathy Griffiths - From population trials to public health practice (April 04 2011)

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 intervention neuroprogression and neuroprotection (April 04 2011)

Professor Michael Berk

Early in tervention neuroprogression and neuroprotection: Pathways to progressive brain changes and novel therapeutic targets.

Diffusion, spread & sustainability of proven innovations in health care Pt1 (March 29 2011)

Professor Jonathan Lomas

Diffusion, spread & sustainability of proven innovations in health care Pt2 (March 29 2011)

Professor Jonathan Lomas

Information for prospective Applicants to CRE (March 21 2011)

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…

National Health Reform Series

National Health Reform Series 3 Can local networks make a difference to primary health care (April 28 2010)

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

More than meets the eye: conservation as a public health imperative (April 16 2010)

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…

National Health Reform Series

National Health Reform Series No.2 (February 24 2010)

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

Obamarama & the audacity of evidence for health reform in the United States (December 02 2009)

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

Preventing the depressed state (November 30 2009)

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?…

JCSMR

Climate Change and Global Health (November 16 2009)

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

Thirsty Work (October 21 2009)

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

How a Clash between our Genes & Modern Life is Making us Sick (October 15 2009)

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

Does pay for performance improve the quality of primary care? (October 06 2009)

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

Working Towards a Connected Frontline Health System (September 29 2009)

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

Obesity as a Complex Problem (September 24 2009)

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 Simon Conway Morris

Darwin’s Compass: Why the evolution of humans is inevitable (September 23 2009)

Professor Simon Conway Morris, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge

Orthodox neo-Darwinism very much emphasises the random and contingent. Re-run the tape of life, as Steven Jay Gould famously observed, and the outcomes would be utterly different. Terrestrial…

Professor Debra Humphris

Working Together for a Better Health Care System (August 05 2009)

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

How to Become a Millionaire without Losing your Soul (June 04 2009)

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

Promises & challenges in developing new vaccines, with a focus on diseases of the developing world (April 29 2009)

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…

Dr Guy Pearse

Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom (April 01 2009)

Dr Guy Pearse, Environmental Advocate & Author

In this lecture Dr Guy Pearse will spoke about the mindset that sees Australia's greatest asset as its mineral and energy resources - coal especially, asking how has this distorted our national…

Lions competition 2008

The 14th Annual Lions Oratory Competition 2008 (September 17 2008)

Andaleeb Akhand, Amanda Alford, Hae-Young (Connie) Chong, Kirill Talanine, Tamie Balaga, Thomas Conyers, Contestants in the 2008 Lions Oratory Competition

The 14th Annual Lions Oratory Competition saw selected ANU students from across the University present eight minute orations to convince the judges and the audience that they deserved to win the ANU…

JCSMR

Sustainable Funding for Australia’s Future Health Care (September 09 2008)

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…

JCSMR

Immunity & Altered Self - The Struggle Between Our Self, Our Genome Sequence & Our Microbes (April 29 2008)

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 Anette Reenberg

Global Land Uses - Changes, Consequences & Challenges (March 18 2008)

Professor Anette Reenberg

Human driven changes to the land surface have wide ranging influence on the functioning of the Earth System. The intensity of land cover change has increased rapidly over the last three hundred years,…

Professor Malcolm Dando

Biosecurity: Upgrading the Web of Prevention (February 13 2008)

Professor Malcolm Dando, Professor, International Security, Department of Peace Sudies, University of Bradford, UK

In this lecture Professor Dando reviews international control of the biotechnology revolution, the threat of deliberate disease - from biowarfare, bioterrorism, and the possible misuse of benignly…

Sir Richard G A Feachem

Fighting the Great Pandemics (May 15 2007)

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…

Dr Kristen Pammer

Window on the Brain (August 17 2006)

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

Seduced by DNA: From Chromosomes to Cancer (August 16 2006)

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…

Professor Jenny Graves

Sex Chromosomes & The Future of Men (August 14 2006)

Professor Jenny Graves, Group Leader, Comparative Genomics Research, School of Biological Sciences, ANU College of Science

In humans and other mammals, females have two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y. The Y chromosome is male determining because…

Dr Tim Wetherell

When Art Meets Science (August 14 2006)

Dr Tim Wetherell , Science Communicator, ANU College of Science

Science and art might sound like vastly different disciplines, but Dr Tim Wetherell from ANU believes they are both…

Dr Jane Goodall

Reason for Hope (July 19 2006)

Dr Jane Goodall DBE, Founder, Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace

Dr Jane Goodall is known worldwide as a passionate environmental advocate. At the heart of her mission is a 46-year research and conservation project studying humanity’s closest relative –…