Papers (accepted and published)

Tehzeeb Zulfiqar · Lyndall Strazdins  Huong Dinh · Cathy Banwell  · Catherine D’Este, Drivers of Overweight/Obesity in 4–11 Year Old Children of Australians and Immigrants; Evidence from Growing Up in Australia, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-018-0841-3)

Walls, H., Johnston, D., Tak, M., Dixon, J., Hanefeld, J., Hull, L., Smith, R. (2018) “The impact of agricultural input subsidies on food and nutrition security: A review and mapping of case-studies”, Food Security  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-018-0857-5

Conference papers and posters

Invited workshop paper: 

Dixon, J. and Paul-Taylor, J. “Consumer-supermarket relations and the shaping of the food supply”, PHAA Food Futures Workshop: The impact of supermarkets on public health: goals for improvement in Australia, Queensland, 20 November 2018.

Invited discussant: 

Dixon, J. “Prioritising ecological & human health”, A lunch discussion about food - transforming Australia’s broken food and farming system, JBWere, Melbourne, 26 October 2018

Tehzeeb Zulfiqar, Richard A. Burns, Catherine A. D’Este, Lyndall M. Strazdins. Growing up in Australia: BMI trajectories and risk factors among Australian children aged 2-11 years by immigrant status. Obesity week 11-15th November, at Nashville USA.

Funding received

Tehzeeb Zulfiqar was awarded Rolls Simon Scholarship to attend the obesity week at Nashville, USA. Her abstract was among the top 10 abstracts in Research in diverse group section.

Professor Lyndall Strazdins; Professor Matthew Gray; Dr Liana Leach. Addressing the hour-glass ceiling: new case for action on gender equality. (DP19). ARC Discovery Project. $405,092.

Dr Lou Farrer. Technology in mental health care in Australia. ARC DECRA Fellowship. $325, 000. (Lou works 1 day a week with Liana, and is therefore one-third ‘Society culture and health’!).

Grants applied for

Christine Heyes LaBond. Whose Health Record? Key stakeholders’ expectations and adoption of Australia’s My Health Record. Excellence in Population Health Research Award, ANU Research School of Population Health. 2018.

New MEMBERS, VISITORS, Appointments and STUDENTS

Tinh Doan, PhD, joined the School as a Research Fellow in late September, and is conducting quantitative analysis for the ARC Linkage Project, Working Well, Working Wisely.

Impact and engagement

Ruth Kharis was the PHAA representative for the ACT Food Regulation Reference Group 7 November 2018 meeting.

Liana Leach attended the Research Foundation meeting for the Centre for Work Health and Safety (CWHS) on the 13^th of November to advise on their current round of research projects.

Cathy Banwell, with other members of the PFAS team, attended a community feedback meeting in Williamtown to present findings from the PFAS Focus Group Study.