The School of Population Health Seminar Series offers an opportunity for staff, students and others with an interest in public health research to learn more about the research and related activity of the School. Seminars are held most Wednesdays between 12pm and 1pm and are available online through Microsoft Teams. If you would like more information about the Seminar Series, or if you have suggestions regarding speakers and or topics (including your own) please contact Michele Rains-Joseph. Upcoming seminars may be found at Events.
My Health Record: harmonised data quality assessment across the data lifecycleProfessor Teng Liaw, UNSW WHO Collaborating Centre on eHealth Balancing privacy and security with the FAIR Guiding Principles requires a culture of reciprocity, transparency and interoperability as well as good documentation at point of care, good data management, good data governance and good reporting. This presentation describes how the framework was developed. <Download flyer> (Presented: 12 February, 2020) |
Transformations in public health: looking back, moving forwardKeynote speakers - Emeritus Prof Simon Chapman, AO,School of Public Health, University of Sydney & Emeritus Prof Peter Baume, AC, UNSW Public health has had major successes, but the terrain in which we work is changing rapidly. Will familiar approaches and tools serve us well as we move forward? Or do new challenges demand that we rethink and reskill to tackle population health inequities locally, nationally and globally? This event brings together leading public health practitioners and researchers to fuel our thinking about public health training and research going forward. <Download program> (Presented: 4 November 2019) |
Adult literacy: a social determinant of Aboriginal health and wellbeingA/Prof Toni Schofield, Honorary Scholar and former member of staff at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney In Australia and the countries of the ‘global north’ – in Europe, Japan and North America, for example – no-or-low adult literacy has virtually been eradicated. Not so in most of the nations of the ‘global south’, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. This disparity, however, does not prevail only between countries. It also operates within many of them, especially post-colonial nations like Australia. Here the pattern of no-or-low adult literacy in remote Aboriginal communities is more similar to those in Sub-Saharan Africa than to those of non-Aboriginal Australians. Around forty percent of all Aboriginal adults in remote communities are estimated to have no-or-low literacy. <Download flyer> (Presented: 4 September 2019) |
Sexual Health and Development in the South PacificProfessor Heather Worth, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Academic Co-lead for the Pacific for UNSW’s Institute for Global Development My question in this seminar is: how did we get to where we are today in terms of sexual health and development in the South Pacific? Does the 21st century global ordering of sexual health and sexualities in the Pacific reinforce a colonial model of administration of health and sexuality? <Download flyer> (Presented: 8 May 2019) |
Digital Health in Primary Care Settings: Challenges and OpportunitiesDr Rajesh Kumar, Visiting Professorial Fellow, School of Public Health & Community Medicine, UNSW Sydney Several digital health interventions have been implemented in hospitals, but the potential of digital technologies is yet to be realised in primary health care systems. We established a living lab in a primary health centre of Chandigarh (India) to address the needs of people, patients and healthcare providers. District Health Information System Tracker was customized and linked with the openMRS to integrate clinical and community health services. <Download flyer> (Presented: 20 March 2019) |
Getting road safety on the global agenda: My experience from WHODr Margaret Peden, BSc (Nursing), BSc Med Hons (Epidemiology), PhD Dr Peden currently holds joint positions at The George Institute for Global Health (University of Oxford) – where she is Head of the Global Injury Programme as well as Co-directing the WHO Collaborating Centre on Injury Prevention and Trauma Care – and the International Injury Research Unit (Johns Hopkins University) where she is a Senior Technical Advisor. Dr Peden is also a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at UNSW Sydney. <Download flyer> (Presented: 15 February 2019) |
Improving end-of-life care for older patients, families and health professionals through timely identification and management of frailtyEbony Lewis, UNSW Medicine SPHCM Our program of research on end-of-life aims to address the early identification and response to frail elderly dying patients to prevent non-beneficial treatments i.e. those that do not improve survival and can impair remaining quality of life. <Download flyer> (Presented: 10 October 2018) |
Confluence of suicide and drug overdose epidemics in young Australian males: common causality?Professor Richard Taylor, Professor of International and Public Health, School of Public Health and Community Medicine (SPHCM), UNSW Sydney Young adult (aged 20–34) males experience higher mortality than females, and in age groups immediately younger and older, and with considerable variation in death rates over time. Trends in mortality and the cause structure of deaths among young adult Australian males over 1979–2011 are investigated, with a focus on suicide and drug overdose. <Download flyer> (Presented: 19 September 2018) |
Health Financing Equity and Universal Coverage in Cambodia: Progress and ChallengesDr Augustine Asante (Kojo), Health Economist and Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine (SPHCM), UNSW Sydney The Cambodian health care system has seen significant improvements in the last two decades but despite these achievements access to quality health care remains problematic. To address these challenges, the government has committed to universal health coverage and is reforming the health financing system to align with this goal. This study employs a benefit incidence analysis (BIA) to assess the distributional impact of government health care spending in Cambodia. <Download flyer> (Presented: 12 September 2018) |
Activating Primary Care COPD Patients with Multi-morbidity(APCOM)Pilot StudyDr Sameera Ansari, Research Fellow, South Eastern Sydney Research Collaboration Hub(SEaRCH), Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity (CPHCE), UNSW Sydney Though the whole (multi-morbidity) is more than the sum of the parts (co-morbidities), it is sometimes necessary to consider a specific index condition during patient-provider consultations. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was the index condition in the context, or backdrop, of multi-morbidity in the APCOM pilot study. <Download flyer> (Presented: 29 August 2018) |
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