Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences at UniMelb in Parkville, Victoria, Australia | Medical research centre

Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences at UniMelb

Locality: Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 8344 5892

Address: University of Melbourne 3010 Parkville, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au

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22.01.2022 Did you know our Bachelor of Biomedicine is one of the Victoria's 10 most popular courses this year? Yesterday VTAC released University of Melbourne offers to over 7000 students. Congrats to everyone who received an offer! ... https://about.unimelb.edu.au//students-poised-for-success-

19.01.2022 Want to know what Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton thinks 2021 will look like? Join this public webinar where Professor Sutton will share his knowledge on COVID-19 and the lessons that can be learned from Europe and America following their second waves. Register today: https://unimelb.zoom.us//register/WN_pMTsJMI2QMiXSx04Ku3njQ... Presented in partnership with Rotary Club Ballarat South.

18.01.2022 Start your week the right way with this amazing COVID-19 #shantytok from Tim @acapellascience on Twitter. You can also find him on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@acapellascience

18.01.2022 Pfizer's vaccine was reported to be more than 90% effective. What does this mean? Should we be excited? Short answer - YES!! The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity's Prof. Terry Nolan chats with ABC Melbourne about the latest COVID-19 vaccine news. ... Full interview: https://www.abc.net.au//doherty-institute-welcome/12870488

18.01.2022 Our healthcare workers have had a distressing, unpredictable year and there are growing concerns about the long-term impacts on their mental health. Associate Professor Luke Burchill spoke to The Project about the app that aims to buck the trend The Royal Melbourne Hospital ... The University of Melbourne See more

18.01.2022 This resource helps medical students interested in #rural work find suitable pathways and we're so here for it. https://bit.ly/3nJbwQF

15.01.2022 Big congrats to our researchers who were awarded grants and/or fellowships from MS Research Australia/MS Australia to support critical research projects and uncover new ways to investigate, manage and treat MS. Dr Charles Malpas: Improving the diagnosis of cognitive impairment in MS. Dr Claudia Marck: Optimising MS management through improved information and resources to guide decision making.... Read more about their projects here: https://msra.org.au/projects/?search=&project_years=2021

12.01.2022 Ollie's helping his mum Iromi celebrate her PhD submission, but it looks like he's also claimed the title! Congratulations Dr Woof (and Iromi too ). Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

12.01.2022 This year The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne celebrates its 150th birthday! In honour of the milestone here's a #ThrowbackThursday gallery to the RCH's earliest days. Pictured is jazz legend Nat King Cole visiting the hospital in 1956 #TBT https://archives.rch.org.au//celebrate-with-us-150-years-/

12.01.2022 HUMANS OF MSPGH Meet Thomas, an inspirational Indigenous MD/MPH student My name is Thomas Mylne and I’m a proud Gangalu man from Central Queensland. I am... currently completing my MPH year of my MD/MPH and am heading off to Darwin in the New Year to conduct research for my final year of medicine with an Indigenous Health focus. From October 2019 to October 2020 I had the privilege of being a Board Director for Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association. During this time I met amazingly intelligent, capable and inspiring fellow students who I am confident will be future leaders for our mob. One of the biggest things I have taken away from these interactions though is that we need more of these people, we need more Indigenous doctors who are going to holistically improve the Australian health system and remind this country of the incredible talent and resilience of our First Nations people. In figures released by Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand (MDANZ) on 2019 medical graduation rates, there had been a 61% increase in a 5 year period in the number of Indigenous students across Australian and New Zealand. This is a remarkable achievement by our talented students/now doctors. However taking another angle on these figures, the 46 Indigenous graduates from 2019 made up 1.26% of the total 3655 graduates, well below population parity. In 2020 Indigenous enrolments were 3.8% of all enrolments which is a positive improvement and total numbers of Indigenous medical student across the country was up to 2.7%. These figures provide hope, however to reach parity in our medical workforce within the next 10-20 years we need to only maintain parity in our medical schools but exceed this, and ensure all these students are supported through to graduation. I am passionate to see governing bodies and the leaders in education reflect on the legacy they want to leave behind and consider whether their current affirmative action is aggressive enough. I pay my respects to all the inspiring Indigenous doctors in who’s footsteps I follow and will be forever grateful for the mentorship and guidance I have been provided on my medical education journey. I can only hope to return this good deed to the same extent in my future practice. #humansofmspgh #unimelb #mpghss #unilife DM us to be featured next

11.01.2022 Build your professional skills in measuring this widespread problem. The University of Melbournewith the #UNFPA, ANROWS, and Australian AID is pleased to offer the #kNOwVAWdata Course online: https://go.medicine. unimelb.edu.au/knowvawdata

10.01.2022 Australian schools are safe to open, but states should adopt mitigation measures including rules for: When to add masks. When to reduce attendance or close schools.... The reason why other countries have chosen to close schools is as a last resort in national lockdowns in the face of high rates of community transmission and case numbers. https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-is-it-safe-for-kids

10.01.2022 Improving diet quality for entire populations requires systemic change, but food labelling is a low-cost method that support progress. Here's how Food Health Star ratings are proving to be a step in the right direction https://unimelb.me/3lbqdJL

08.01.2022 This year Master of Public Health student Amina started a blog, inspired by her passion for mental health and human rights. "The impact it has on my friends (new and old) continues to inspire me in my journey of becoming a Public Health practitioner. Full profile bit.ly/2DOnupU ... The University of Melbourne

06.01.2022 Prof. Peter Doherty representing at the Nobel Prize Summit, 'Our Planet, Our Future' last week.

03.01.2022 Neo-Bionica facility to open in July. Our precinct continues to grow as a global biomedical powerhouse. Professor Mark Cook, Chair of Medicine and Director of Neurology at St Vincent’s Hospital where Neo-Bionica is located said the launch of the new facility will enable clinicians, scientists, engineers and industry partners to collaborate closely in the quest to find solutions for people with hard-to-treat diseases, like epilepsy. The ability to walk from my consulting rooms to the Neo-Bionica facility and talk to the engineers developing prototypes for my patients to test will have a huge impact on the speed of developing new treatments, and the future of medicine in Australia, Professor Cook said.

03.01.2022 Prof. Tony Blakely from our School of Population and Global Health , who was part of the team that created the model which helped Victoria eliminate COVID-19 community transmission, has joined colleagues from University of Otago to write this piece for the BMJ promoting the benefits of an elimination strategy. "Elimination of community transmission offers public health, equity, and potentially economic advantages compared with a control strategy using mitigation or suppression." Read the full paper: https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4907

01.01.2022 Breaking news Thanks to investment from @VicGovAu a new hub for #InfectiousDiseases and #Globalhealth will be created in our Biomedical Precinct. The facility will be physically connected to The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity a joint venture of the The Royal Melbourne Hospital and our university and will become the new home of the Burnet Institute.... We’ve only got through this pandemic by backing our scientists and researchers. We’ll continue to do that and create high-skilled jobs right here in Melbourne, Premier Dan Andrews said. https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/victorian-pledge-institute-i