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Upcoming event: Mindfulness and how it can assist people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Jeffrey Schwartz is a clinical psychiatrist who has translated classical mindfulness training into a highly successful treatment for people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

PUBLIC LECTURE:
Date Wednesday 23 October 2013
Time 6.30-7.30pm
Venue Lecture Theatre 5 (B3.07), Deakin University's Melbourne Burwood Campus
Cost FREE

WORKSHOP
Date Thursday 24 October 2013
Time 9.30am-12.30pm
Venue Room Y1.15, Deakin University's Melbourne Burwood Campus
Cost $150 external guest or $100 Deakin staff and students


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Where next for prevention of chronic disease

Deakin University, Department of Health and Department of Human Services Strategic Alliance (Barwon-South West) presents the Peter Quail Oration 2013: Where next for prevention of chronic disease?
Scaling up from community-based obesity prevention
in schools to whole populations.

Dr Steven Allender, Professor of Public Health and Co-Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention at Deakin University, will be the guest speaker at the oration.

The oration will take place on Tuesday 22 October 2013
4.00-5.00pm
at the Percy Baxter Lecture Theatre, Deakin University Geelong Waterfront Campus

The oration will be available for live viewing in room B3.03 at the Warrnambool Campus.

RSVP to Christopher Loughnan at chris.loughnan@dhs.vic.gov.au


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Allied Health Scholarships

Applications for the allied health component of the 2014 Nursing and Allied Health Scholarship and Support Scheme (NAHSSS)and will close 15 October 2013.

There are thee scholarship streams:
Postgraduate scholarship
Continuing Professional Development Scholarship
Clinical Psychology Scholarship

For more information on these scholarships, please visit Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health website http://www.sarrah.org.au/site/index.cfm/


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View News and Events archive The School has welcomed the return of Professor Tony Worsley and  Professor Rob Daly in January 2011

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Deakin University acknowledges the traditional land owners of present campus sites.

5th March 2012