April report for Environment, Climate and Health

3 April 2019

The PFAS Health Study: The team is finalising details for the cross-sectional survey and blood serum study, as well as preparing ethics documentation and research protocols for the data linkage study. The Focus Groups Study Report was released on Tuesday 19 March. Martyn Kirk was interviewed by several media outlets about the upcoming survey to encourage participation in the study.

 

Publications

Dawel, A., Wong, T. Y., McMorrow, J., Ivanovici, C., He, X., Barnes, N., Irons, J., Gradden, T., Robbins, R., Goodhew, S. C., Lane, J., McKone, E. (2018). Caricaturing as a general method to improve poor face recognition: Evidence from low-resolution images, other-race faces, and older adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xap0000180

 

“Jo’s research has been featured on the Macular Disease Foundation Australia (MDFA) website and in the MDFA quarterly newsletter "Vision Voice". The article is titled "Inability to recognise faces impairs social life: study" on page 6-7

 

https://www.mdfoundation.com.au/content/inability-recognise-faces-impairs-social-life-study

 

Finally, Jo at the JCSMR run.