June report for Epidemiology for Policy and Practice

6 June 2019

New grants/funding

  • The ANU Research School of Population Health has been awarded $600,000 in ACT government funding to conduct research on secondary CVD prevention. 

Other conference presentations

  • Ray Lovett and Katie Thurber presented on ‘Evaluating the impacts of TIS regional grants on smoking outcomes’ at the 2019 National Tackling Indigenous Smoking (TIS) CEOs’ Workshop (8 May)

Awards

  • Jenny Welsh was awarded the Baume travel scholarship to attend the Society for Epidemiologic Research’s Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MI, from 18-21 June. 
  • Roxanne Jones’ MPhilAE was awarded (no thesis revisions required).

Implementation, Engagement and Outreach

  • Emily Banks and Rosemary Korda attended an ANU/Department of Health roundtable discussion on 9 May 2019 as part of a delegation led by the CHM Dean.  The broad aim of the roundtable was to work on building a closer relationship between the ANU and the Department of Health.
  • Grace Joshy attended the ‘Day of Women in Mathematics Panel’ discussion on 13 May 2019.  This was hosted by the ANU Mathematics Society. 
  • Jenny Welsh represented NCEPH at the invitation-only workshop ‘Developing wellbeing indicators for the ACT’ on 2 May 2019.  The workshop was sponsored by the Health Research Institute, University of Canberra and the Australian National University Centre for Health Stewardship.
  • Rachael Rodney-Harris and Jenny Welsh presented at the annual Canberra Pint of Science event on Monday 20 May and Wednesday 22 May 2019.
  • Kamalini Lokuge chaired the reproductive health session at the MSF Scientific Days 2019 at the Royal Society of Medicine in London on 9-10 May 2019.
  • Jason Agostino attended a roundtable held by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and NACCHO on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health assessments on 3 and 4 May 2019. The aim of the roundtable was to develop health assessment templates to guide best practice preventive care.
  • Jason Agostino attended a NACCHO round table on embedding pharmacists within Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations on 30 May 2019.
  • Ray Lovett attended a meeting in Yarrabah on developing community level measures of wellbeing.

Media Releases/interest

New staff

  • Miranda Harris, a Public Health Medical Registrar, started on 28 May and will be working on e-cigarettes and PFAS.

Papers accepted/published  – For information - NCEPH document updated.

  • Welsh J, Korda RJ, Joshy G, Banks E. Primary absolute cardiovascular disease risk, assessment and treatment in people reporting psychological distress in the Australian population: a nationally representative cross-sectional study. Front. Public Health. Accepted 7 May 2019.
  • Hodgkin K, Joshy G, Browne J, Bartini I, Hull T, Lokuge K. Outcomes by birth setting and caregiver for low risk women in Indonesia: A Systematic Literature Review. Reprod. Health. Accepted 24 Apr 2019.
  • Davies J, Lokuge K, Glass K, Routine and pulse vaccination for Lassa virus could reduce high levels of endemic disease: A mathematical modelling study. Vaccine. 2019 Jun 6;37(26):3451-3456.

    Progress on research projects.

  • Business as usual.