Two prestigious Churchill Scholarships have been awarded to Centre for Adolescent Health staff in 2010. Dr Cathy Crock is about to leave on her travels overseas and will be examining consumer perspectives around health care. Dr Nola Firth is involved in innovative research to develop and trial school based resilience programs that assist adolescents who … Continued
The staff of the Young People’s Health Service, from the RCH, Centre for Health were with Professor Brian Burdekin at the Melbourne Town Hall on the 9 of March 2007. YPHS was in attendance for the launch of the February edition (Young Homeless People and their future). YPHS also launched their Public Safety DVD “Voices … Continued
Professor George Patton was speaking at the ministerial launch of Young Australians: their health and wellbeing 2007. He chaired the Advisory Committee to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare around the development of the report. The report brings together the best available current data on aspects of health and social development and is widely … Continued
Muliti-disciplinary research requires careful navigational skills, as Amy Nisselle and Rony Duncan explain. GRADUATE STUDIES It’s now more and more common for Masters and PhD students in Australia to undertake projects that cross fields of research. The problem is, multi-disciplinary research is a relatively new phenomenon. Students are often supervised by experts who did not … Continued
Global gains in infant and child survival have resulted in greater appreciation of the importance of taking the health and wellbeing of adolescents more seriously; the tremendous reduction in mortality globally in the 1-5 year age group has not been replicated to the same extent in 10-24 year olds. Furthermore, globalisation has changed the nature … Continued
The Independent News and Media Limited – 22 April 2007, London
