Please go to http://www.involvingpeopleinresearch.org.au/find-out-more/ways-to-involve-the-consumers-and-community-members-in-research/328-process-for-seeking-community-input-into-grant-applications for step – by step process by Associate Professor Marina Ciccarelli from Curtin University and the Consumer and Community Health Research Network.
The Research Education and Training Program (RETP) and is proud to announce the release of the new 2017 Version 2 Good Clinical Practice Modules on May 23, 2017! In the past six months, the RETP Team has been very busy making revisions to the first GCP course released in September, 2016.
What can I expect as an online participant?
The new GCP V2 includes updates from the ICH GCP 2016 Guidelines and local and national policy updates.
What if I recently completed the GCP Version 1 online course?
The Royal Society of Canada has awarded Professor John Challis with the title of “Life Member” for his remarkable contributions to science and medicine.
WA researchers have announce that the Patient Blood Management model – initiated by the Western Australian Department of Health in 2008 has resulted in better health outcomes and reduced health costs.
The radical program pioneered and researched in WA has shown spectacular results and is now being adopted internationally.
This is an excellent example of successful health research translation – whereby the evidence, first published in 2008 – was immediately adopted into practice and applied system-wide across the state.
Professor Gary Geelhoed, Chief Medical Officer of WA, and Dr Simon Towler, a former Chief Medical Officer of WA, who is involved with blood management reform at a national level in Australia, discussed the successful translation of this landmark research last week on the Health Report with Dr Norman Swan.
CLICK HERE to listen to the interview.
The Minister for Health, Greg Hunt has announced the detail around the allocation of the funding into clinical trials in Australia as handed down at the 2017 Budget last Tuesday.
Key elements of the MRFF funding boost for clinical trials:
As part of the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), the Government is continuing to deliver on its promise to establish a $20 billion capital in the fund, with this target to be achieved in 2020-21.
Read the full media release by Research Australia HERE.
The 6th Annual NHMRC Symposium on Research Translation, will be co-hosted this year by the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Lowitja Institute.
The Symposium will present an outstanding opportunity to focus on action needed to improve the health and wellbeing of Australia’s First Peoples through effective translation of health, wellbeing and medical research into policy and practice.
It will also be a forum to share knowledge of what successful research looks like at community level and what the key elements of success are.
The Symposium is for anyone with an interest in improving the health and wellbeing of Australia’s First Peoples through the better use of high quality research in practice and policy.
It will include researchers, policy makers, health care practitioners, community health workers, community members and consumers.
Symposium participants will have the opportunity to network with, learn from, and establish collaborations with others committed to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
EVENT DETAILS
Type: Symposium
Theme: “The Butterfly Effect: Translating Knowledge into Action for Positive Change ”
Date and time: 14-15 November, 2017 (9am-5pm)
Location: Brisbane, Australia
** Call for abstracts has now been extended to Friday 23 June) **
Registrations for the Symposium will open in June 2017.
Choose from: Workshops (90 minutes); oral presentation (15 minutes); or poster
Abstracts are to be submitted online by Friday 23 June on “The Butterfly Effect: Translating Knowledge into Action for Positive Change “.
The submission of abstracts that translate the knowledge authors have gained from their community groups, workplace, research and policy environment into action for positive change are encouraged. In particular:
Themes and life course
Authors are encouraged to consider their abstracts under the following broad themes in conjunction with the life course stages in which projects may reside.
The five stages of the life course are maternal and child health, children, youth, adults and older adults and are aligned with the priorities described in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2013-2023. The themes are:
Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words for oral and poster abstracts and no longer than 500 words for workshop abstracts.
Registrations
Registrations for the Symposium will open in June 2017. All accepted authors must register for the Symposium.
Further information, including details regarding the Symposium program, will be provided in the coming months.
For more information please click here.
Applications for the 2017 Premier’s Science Awards and nominations for the 2017 WA Science Hall of Fame close at 10am (AWST) on Monday 22 May 2017.
About the awards:
Premier’s Science Awards
The awards celebrate significant achievements in scientific research and engagement by Western Australians.
The 2017 Premier’s Science Awards feature four award categories:
* Scientist of the Year ($50,000 prize);
* Woodside Early Career Scientist of the Year ($10,000 prize);
* ExxonMobil Student Scientist of the Year ($10,000 prize); and
* Chevron Science Engagement Initiative of the Year ($10,000 prize).
WA Science Hall of Fame
The Hall of Fame was established in 2007 to recognise internationally renowned Western Australian scientists who make exceptional lifelong contributions to science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Winners of the Premier’s Science Awards and the Science Hall of Fame will be announced in August 2017 during National Science Week.
For more information and to download the application materials please visit: www.dpc.wa.gov.au/ScienceAwards<http://www.dpc.wa.gov.au/ScienceAwards>
Please see the attached flyer for information
The three-day annual international medical conference, Science on the Swan, was held in Fremantle, Perth on 2 – 4 May 2017.
The conference was attended by medical health experts, scientists and distinguished professionals across Australia and internationally, showcasing the some of the best medical science and health research in Western Australia. The theme of the conference was ‘One Health’ – focusing on how population growth, climate change, lifestyle shifts and modern transport interact to increase the risk of emergent diseases that affect us all on a global scale.
The conference and associated workshops provided an opportunity to interact with global research leaders in this important 21st century field.
The Honourable Roger Cook MLA, Deputy Premier; Minister for Health; Mental Health opened the conference and announced the 2017 round of the State Government’s Premier’s Science Fellowship Program – Now open.
Other notable guest speakers included; Professor Barry Marshall AC, Nobel Laureate; Professor Ian Frazer, AC, President, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science, Australian of the Year 2006; Professor Alan Mackay-Smith, Australian of the Year, 2017, Professor Fiona Wood AM, Australian of the Year, 2005, Professor Jeremy Nicholson, Imperial College London, UK, Professor Carmen Lawrence, Former Premier of Western Australia, School of Psychology, UWA; and Dr Robyn Williams, AM, Science Journalist and Broadcaster, The Science Show and Ockham’s Razor.
More information about the conference proceedings can be found HERE.
We look forward to the 2018 Science on the Swan conference which will be hosted by the Telethon Kids Institute and the University of Notre Dame Australia, focusing on Child and Aboriginal Health research.
Science on the Swan is initiated and run as a collaborative venture of the Western Australian Health Translation Network by all five of WA’s universities: The University of Western Australia, Curtin University, Murdoch University, Edith Cowan University and the University of Notre Dame together with The Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, the Telethon Kids Institute, the key teaching and research hospitals and the WA Government through the Department of Health and the Office of Science.
The NHMRC has recently opened two Targeted Calls for Research (TCRs) to address mental health in older Australians:
Further details, call-specific funding rules and grant proposal templates can be found on the NHMRC website.
Professor John Challis, Executive Director, WA Health Translation Network (WAHTN) was pleased to attend the FutureNOW Series Event, “Joining the Global Innovation Chain” by the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce and ECU.
Guests heard from Professor Joseph Klafter, President, Tel Aviv University on how Tel Aviv University educates its researchers and students to think, network and succeed globally. For more information on this event, please click HERE
