2013 Seminar series

The Deakin Population Health Strategic Research Centre (SRC) hosts a fortnightly seminar series, featuring staff, research students and invited guest speakers. The SRC seminar series is a platform for knowledge exchange, research communication and, most of all, brings researchers together as an academic community. The 2013 seminar program includes 5 special presentations to be held at Deakin Prime on the theme of Public Health Policy, organised by Professor Jim Hyde.

The seminars are held at the Melbourne Burwood Campus and are video linked to Waterfront and Warrnambool Campuses. Details of videoconference link procedures are:

To join this VMP from a Tandberg unit, please do the following:

1. Press the phone book button on the Tandberg remote control and choose the ‘Virtual Meeting Points’ directory.

2. Select HEALTH Population SRC from the phone book.

3. Press OK to dial.

You may also join this meeting via phone if you cannot attend from a videoconference location:

1. Dial (03) 5223 6945. You will reach the conferencing system.

2. Type the digits 36945# (note the hash key) and you will join the meeting.

The 2013 program is below, with links to presentations provided after each seminar (where available):

Date	Time	Speaker	Presentation Title	Rooms	Slides
12 February 2013	12pm – 1pm	Professor Martin Caraher Professor of Food and Health Policy Department of Sociology School of Arts and Social Sciences City University London	Food Prices: An English perspective	B-HE2.016 S-AD5.005 W-B.3.18	Professor Martin Caraher presentation (3 MB)
26 February 2013	12pm – 1pm	Jessica Herbert Vivica Kraak Jennifer Marks Eva Yuen Jill Whelan Gina Harris	SRC PhD student three minute thesis practice	B- GA2.26 S-AD5.005 W-B.3.18
12 March 2013	12pm – 1pm	Liz Harris Senior Research Fellow Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, The University of New South Wales	Public Health Policy I Working in disadvantaged communities: What evidence makes a difference?	Deakin Prime – Meeting Room 3, B-HE2.016 S- AD5.004, W- B.3.18	Public Health Policy melbourne presentation 12th March (2 MB)
26 March 2013	12pm – 1pm	Kathy McConell Food Alliance Coordinator / Public Health Nutritionist at Deakin Population Health SRC	Planning for Food: why food should be a key theme of the Metropolitan Planning Strategy for Melbourne	B-B2.20 (Blue Room) S- AD1.122, W- B.3.18	planning for food (5 MB)
Postponed to 14 May 2013	12pm – 1pm	Fran Thorn Deloitte TTA, Melbourne	Public Health Policy II: Evidence isn’t Everything	Deakin Prime – Meeting Room 3, B-HE2.016, S- AD5.004, W- B.3.18
23 April 2013	12pm – 1pm	Monica Evans & CB Nyko Coordinator Healthy Together Geelong	‘Healthy Together Geelong’: obesity prevention in action	B-B2.20 (Blue Room) S- AD1.122, W- B.3.18	Healthy Together Geelong (7 MB)
7 May 2013	12pm – 1pm	Dr Douglas Boyle Head, GRHANITE Health Informatics Unit, Rural Health Academic Centre, Melbourne Medical School University of Melbourne	GRHANITE Technology	B-B2.20 (Blue Room) S- AD1.122, W- B.3.18	Deakin Pop Health (7 MB)
21 May 2013	12pm – 1pm	Prof Jeff Richardson Professor and Foundation Director Centre for Health Economics Monash University	A Comparison of Health Related Quality of Life instruments in 7 Disease Areas	B-B2.20 (Blue Room) S- AD1.122, W- B.3.18	Comparison of MAUI's (2 MB)
Postponed TBA	12pm – 1pm	Professor Alan Shiell The Centre of Excellence in Intervention and Prevention Science, Melbourne	Public Health Policy III: On rocks and hard places: a view from the middle	Deakin Prime - Meeting Room 3, B-B2.20 (Blue Room) S- AD1.122, W- D.2.30
18 June 2013	12pm – 1pm	Suresh Joshi PhD Researcher Deakin University Alfred Deakin Research Institute (ADRI)	PhD Confirmation practice presentation: Understanding trajectories in Health Behaviour of Immigrants in Australia: Longitudinal Study.	B-B2.20 (Blue Room) S- AD1.122, W- D.2.30
2 July 2013	12pm – 1pm	Lisa Gold & TBA	iHEA presentation practice	B-B2.20 (Blue Room) S- AD1.122, W- B.3.18
16 July 2013	12pm – 1pm	Richard Osborne Professor of Public Health, School of Health and Social Development Head, Public Health Innovation Co-Director, Population Health SRC IUHPE Global Working Group for Health Literacy	Health Literacy	B-B2.20 (Blue Room) S- AD1.122, W- D.2.30
30 July 2013	12pm – 1pm	Dr Rachel Carey Research Fellow, Food Alliance Deakin Population Health SRC	Australia as a food superpower in the Asian Century: what are the implications for health and the environment?	B-B2.20 (Blue Room) S- AD1.122, W- B.3.18
13 August 2013	12pm – 1pm	Sharon Goldfield and Jenny Promois	Public Health Policy IV	Deakin Prime - Meeting Room 3, B-B2.20 (Blue Room) S- AD1.122, W- D.2.30
27 August 2013	12pm – 1pm	Gina Harris PhD Candidate Deakin Population Health SRC	Food, value and health for high and low income mothers	B-B2.20 (Blue Room) S- AD1.122, W- D.2.30
10 September 2013	12pm – 1pm	Lenore Manderson	Public Health Policy V	Deakin Prime - Meeting Room 3, B-B2.20 (Blue Room) S- AD1.122, W- D.2.30
24 September 2013	12pm – 1pm	TBA	TBA	B-B2.20 (Blue Room) Meet Room 3 11.30~1.30 S- AD1.122, W- B.3.18
8 October 2013	12pm – 1pm	Mark Lawrence Associate Professor in Public Health Nutrition School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences Director, Food Policy Unit, Deakin Population Health SRC	Modelling food systems for health and sustainability	B-B2.20 (Blue Room) S- AD1.122, W- D.2.30
22 October 2013	12pm – 1pm			B-B2.20 (Blue Room) S- AD1.122, W- D.2.30
5 November 2013	12pm – 1pm	TBA	TBA	B-B2.20 (Blue Room) S- AD1.122, W- D.2.30
12 November 2013	12pm – 1pm	TBA	Public Health Policy VI	Deakin Prime - Meeting Room 3, B-B2.20 (Blue Room) S- AD1.122, W- D.2.30
26 November 2013	12pm – 1pm	Michaela Jackson PhD Candidate Faculty of Business and Law	Intersections and conflicts: marketers’ and public health advocates’ views regarding IMC and the promotion of unhealthy foods and beverages to children and adolescents	B-B2.20 (Blue Room) S- AD1.122, W- J.2.22

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