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
Find out the key findings from the 2009 review of the Adolescent Model of Care.
Does letting teens have small amounts of alcohol from early on teach them to drink sensibly? Click on the link below to read what Prof. Patton of the Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute says. http://www.mcri.edu.au/Downloads/Media/2009/11/04/alcohol.pdf
Congratulations to Professor George Patton, Director of Research at the Centre for Adolescent Health, whose team’s research on youth mortality recently received coverage on The New York Times website. The international study, published in The Lancet this month, was the first to report on the rates and causes of global mortality in people aged 10-24. … Continued
“If I known about Frontyard and YPHS when I was 15, I would have found help then, and maybe my life would be different.” (20yr old homeless mother) An Evaluation of clinical street outreach in Melbourne’s CBD 2009 – Written by Donna Eade Executive Summary of the YPHS clinical street outreach (CSO) evaluation, 2009. YPHS … Continued
Read about it on The Age of 10th August 2009
Congratulations to Prof George Patton who was awarded the TheSchering-Plough (Organon) Senior Research Award. His presentation was on “What’s a guy like you doing in a place like this?’” The annual Schering-Plough (Organon) Senior Research Award is made to the Fellow who has made the most significant contribution to Psychiatric research in Australia and New … Continued
Adolescent Health Linkage Program The Adolescent Health Linkage Program is set to continue for another two years thanks to generous support of The Invergowrie Foundation. The program involves the delivery of an interdisciplinary professional develpment program for a select group of women working with young people in regional, rural and remote communities in Victoria. The … Continued
Congratulations to the MobileType team who have just been awarded $280,000 from the Telstra Foundation for mounting an RCT in primary care In the news… Snapshots of our Lives – from 17th December 2007 to 12th January 2008 at Melbourne City Library Launch of Young Australians: their health and wellbeing 2007 – 30th May 2007 Heavy cannabis use … Continued
