Newsletter | Issue 3 | September 2017

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Level B Research Fellows successfully promoted to Level C Senior Lecturer

Dr Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis is part of group awarded a grant to examine antimicrobial prescribing practices across Australia

A/Prof John Furler, Dr Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis and A/Prof Dougie Boyle have been successful in obtaining funding for three research projects from the RACGP Foundation, as well as receiving funding from the Melbourne Networked Society Institute of the University.

Led by Kelsey Hegarty, the Safer Families Centre of Research Excellence is officially underway. The aim is to make all families safer by generating evidence-based knowledge to assist services to identify violence early and tailor effective responses.

Dr Laura Tarzia’s paper, “Sexual violence associated with poor mental health in women attending Australian general practices” was published last month in the ANZJPH. It reports the findings from the first wave of the PROSPER Study, which was funded by an MDHS Early Career Researcher Grant. PROSPER aims to explore the prevalence and health effects of sexual violence in a GP population.

The Department welcomes visitor Dr Wern-Ee Tang, a Family Physician from the National Healthcare Group Polyclinics, Singapore. Sponsored by the Ministry of Health, Singapore, Dr Tang hopes to learn more about patient participation in healthcare, health services design and research.

Final year medical students Jenni Lyne, Declan McGavin and Jesse Hunter were invited to present their student research projects in a symposium at the recent Primary Health Care Research conference in Brisbane.

SPCR thanks outgoing and welcomes incoming members

DGP PhD student Kelvin Lau presents his research findings at the 2017 National Youth Health Conference in Sydney

This one-day interactive course aims to help practitioners working in areas linked to domestic, family and sexual violence to shape their ideas into research projects.

PhD student Nicole Iturrieta Guaita presented at the 2017 STI & HIV World Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Professor Meredith Temple-Smith was awarded a small grant to establish an Australian version of the Tommy’s website.

Prof Meredith Temple-Smith from the Department of General Practice, Assoc Prof Jane Tomnay from the Department of Rural Health and their PhD student Nicole Iturrieta Guaita were welcomed by two Chilean Universities.

Prof Jane Gunn visits China to participate in forum on Health Innovations to Improve Health Outcomes

A/Prof John Furler presents invited distinguished paper at the Society for Academic Primary Care at Warwick University, UK