Newsletter | April 2017

See a list of journal articles and reports recently authored by CHP staff.

The former Prime Minister of Australia Gough Whitlam noted in 1967 that one of the problems in discussing health policy in Australia is the lack of reliable official information.

Research Fellow Jesse Young and Professor Stuart Kinner recently authored an article in the Conversation about the NDIS exclusion of prisoners.

A recent article published in the International Journal of Epidemiology and authored by Prof Margaret Kelaher has shed a light on trends of first authorship in global health research.

The EIS stream and the Institute for Health and Social Policy (IHSP) at McGill University will also be holding a joint panel on the democratisation of health at the International Conference for Public Policy in Singapore this June.

Dr Lucio Naccarella has had two oral presentations accepted at the conference, held in London on the 11-14th June.

Dr Ryan Perry from the Evaluation and Implementation Science Unit will be presenting a seminar entitled 'Where Does Prejudice Come From? Presenting a Model of Underlying Motives and Processes' as part of the MSEI Refugees and Forced Migration Seminar series.

M. Reed’s editorial in the Journal of General Internal Medicine explored the findings presented by A/Prof Amal Trivedi and Prof Margaret Kelaher in a recent article published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.

A/Prof Amal Trivedi, honorary scholar in the Evaluation and Implementation Science Unit and based at Brown University, was recently awarded a 2017-2018 Fulbright US Senior Scholar grant.

Dr Camille La Brooy has recently been elected as the Health and Safety Representative for MSPGH. Camille’s input will help drive OHS improvement in the School.

A study published in the journal PloS Medicine and led by Dr Linda Cobiac and Prof Tony Blakely from the Health Economics Unit has found that implementing taxes and subsidies could improve diet and population health in Australia.

Dr Helen Jordan is undertaking a project with the Health Protection Branch of the DHHS to assist services working on programs to improve immunisation coverage of refugee and asylum seeker children and adolescents.

Dr. Helen Jordan  is delivering the popular 3-day short course titled Health Program Evaluation: Scoping the Evaluation Plan, 14-16 June 2017, at Graduate House, The University of Melbourne.

Dr Kim Dalziel, Senior Research Fellow from the Health Economics Unit, has been awarded the Harkness Fellowship by the Commonwealth Fund. She will work with leading US experts to study health system supports for children with special health care needs.

A new initiative to support early career researcher to spend time working at Centre for Health Policy, University of Melbourne. The Program is now open to applicants.

Find out about op-eds and news stories reporting research by the Health Economics Unit, as well as their take on current issues.