2007 News Archive
- New Head of School
- New book on Tobacco Control
- Australian Museum Eureka Prize Winner
- 2007 NHMRC and other grants success
School of Public Health appoints new Head, Professor Glenn Salkeld
Announcement of the appointment of Professor Glenn
Salkeld as Professor of Public Health and Head of the School of Public Health. More...
A New Book on Tobacco Control written by our own Simon Chapman
Strident anti-tobacco campaigner Simon Chapman launched his new book, Public Health Advocacy and Tobacco Control: Making Smoking History on 30 August 2007, with the help of former NSW premier Bob Carr.
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Professor Alex Barratt - Australian Museum Eureka Prize Winner!
The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes reward excellence in the fields of scientific research & innovation, science leadership, school science and science journalism & communication. Prof Barratt's ABC radio national series explaining [i]Evidence Based Medicine, a paradigm shift in clinical practice[/i] has won the Health and Medical Journalism prize for 2007!
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2007 NHMRC and other grants success
Members of the School of Public Health and its constituent and affiliated centres continue to enjoy impressive success rates with NHMRC grants and fellowships, and in 2007 have added three Australian Research Council (ARC) grants to their tally, as well as a large Cancer Institute of NSW grant.
2007 grant successes are listed below (alphabetically according to first named Chief Investigator from the School of Public Health). Total grants awarded in 2007 that will be administered through the SPH comes to over $9 million.
For a list of successful applicants, click here - PDF.
(Posted December 2006)