Annual Research Symposium

Advances in Public Health and Health Services Research at UNSW
Fourth Annual Symposium 2012

To be held Friday, 21 September 2012
John Niland Scientia Building UNSW
8:00 am - 5:30 pm

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The fourth Annual Symposium on "Advances in Public Health and Health Services Research at UNSW" is being held on Friday, 21 September 2012 at the John Niland Scientia Building, Kensington Campus, UNSW.

The conference will showcase the most exciting elements in research from the School of Public Health and Community Medicine and its affiliated Research Centres: The Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity; Australian Institute of Health Innovation; The Kirby Institute; and The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, which together form the strongest concentration of expertise and capacity in population health and health services research in Australia.

The keynote speaker this year is Professor Melanie Wakefield, Director of the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer at the Cancer Council Victoria and an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, who will talk about the major policy issues involved in tobacco control including the recent introduction of plain packaging and her own research on social marketing.

The program includes a focus on Prevention, Protection, Promotion and Population including presentations (poster and talks) by academics and postgraduate research students from the School and Centres.

The day will end with a lively hypothetical debate on ‘How punitive should public health get: smokers don’t deserve health care” and will conclude with an awards ceremony

If you would like to attend, please RSVP by the 7th September to http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/medevents.nsf/RSC