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SPHCM School of Public Health and Community Medicine UNSW Australia

Locality: Kensington, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 9385 3811

Address: Level 3, Samuels Building 2031 Kensington, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Big shout out to SPH's Prof Mary-Louise McLaws and Assoc Prof Freddy Sitas for being featured by The Australian as leaders in their field! Full list:

25.01.2022 The UNSW Gender Violence Prevention Synergy Project is looking for a research assistant to build a central online hub for research into violence against women. If you have skills in research synthesis and/or data mapping please apply ASAP or contact [email protected]

24.01.2022 ‘Elder-mediation’ has been shown to produce positive results in combating elder abuse, but logistical and cultural barriers impact the accessibility of elder-mediation. These barriers mean that, for some older people, the road to help is sometimes slow and complicated. A new study led by Dr Craig Sinclair from the Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research in partnership with UNSW researchers, including the SPH’s Dr Adrienne Withall, identifies these barriers and how they may be overcome. Read more:

24.01.2022 Cervical cancer is a leading cancer and cause of premature death among women in Uganda aged 15 to 44 years. Researchers from SPH, James Henry Obol, Sophia Lin, Reema Harrison and Robyn Richmond, assessed the knowledge, attitudes, and practice of cervical cancer prevention among health workers in rural health centres in rural health centres (HCs) in the Acholi sub-region of Northern Uganda. "Health workers from rural HCs in Uganda play a crucial role in cervical cancer prev...ention as they can reach a wider community, " say the authors. "Guidelines for cervical cancer prevention to rural health workers should be developed and disseminated to promote standardised cervical cancer prevention activities." The findings were published in BMC Cancer BMC and the research is part of an ongoing collaboration between UNSW and Gulu University. Read more:

23.01.2022 Should the COVID-19 vaccine be made mandatory? SPH’s Anita Heywood explains why not and stresses on the need for a staged rollout linked to vulnerability in a given population. Listen to her interview:

23.01.2022 Is it safe to sing in COVID times? A video study by UNSWs C Raina MacIntyre, Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, Charitha de Silva, Con Doolan, Prateek Bahl, and Shovon Bhattacharjee, shows just how easily COVID-19 could spread when people sing together. Read more:

22.01.2022 Can soccer build social cohesion? Does sport have the power to bring communities together, promote racial harmony and lead to social integration? The Schools recent research on the long-running Football United program, suggests that sport can indeed achieve this and has the potential to positively influence the life trajectories of the people involved. Know more:

22.01.2022 SPHCM Online Seminar: Get to know the SPHCM Professor Presented by Professor Heather Worth Professing Global Public Health: back to the future of the university... Wednesday, 12 August 2020 12:00-1:00pm This seminar will be recorded To listen to the seminar:

21.01.2022 Can there be a COVID-safe way to get back on a cruise ship in the near future? Prof Mary-Louise McLaws joined a podcast on the popular women’s platform Mamamia to share ideas on minimizing risks. Listen in:

21.01.2022 "It is important, we have no breaches at all in our hotel quarantine program." SPH's Prof Mary-Louise spoke at National Press Club of Australia on managing #COVID19 in Australia. Catch up on ABC TV + iview here:

21.01.2022 A ‘preventive’ health strategy must confront hard truths to improve health and wellbeing. In the SPH submission towards the development of the Australia’s National Preventive Health Strategy, we emphasise the need to: Address inequities as one the biggest obstacles to improving population health, including systemic racism and discrimination. Address the priorities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People at every step of the Strategy, by directly consulting a...nd partnering with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People and Aboriginal community-controlled organisations. Apply a population health lens - which recognises the social, historical, economic, cultural, and environmental impacts on a person’s and community’s health and wellbeing. Recognise the impacts of rapid urbanisation, the climate change emergency, gender-based/domestic violence, injury and poor mental health. Promoting health and wellbeing is not only common sense because it is proven to help people live longer and healthier lives and to save health costs it is the right thing to do with tremendous humanitarian, social, environmental and community benefits. Read more and our submission here [LINK: https://sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au//preventive-health-strategy-]

21.01.2022 Can text messages in your local language help you maintain a healthy lifestyle and manage your blood pressure? SPH’s Buna Bhandari, Padmanesan Narasimhan, Rohan Jayasuriya, and Abhinav Vaidya try to evaluate the feasibility of a text message intervention for hypertensive patients at a health facility in Nepal. Link to publication:

20.01.2022 The Ethics of Lockdowns under COVID-19: a discussion Friday, 28 August 2020 5:00 6:00 pm Online Event... What are the ethical implications of COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia, and their significance for public health in a liberal democracy? Click below to register:

19.01.2022 Ever heard of the COVID-19 "germ bubble"? Prof Mary-Louise McLaws explains what that is and how it can help us balance the risk of exposure to COVID-19 with our need for social interaction. Read more:

19.01.2022 Population Health Online Seminar The natural trajectory from landscape architecture to urban health political science university Presented by Professor Evelyne de Leeuw Wednesday 9 September 2020... 12-1pm This seminar will be recorded Find out more:

19.01.2022 Professor Evelyne de Leeuw, Director of HUE (Healthy Urban Environments) Collaboratory argues that cities are central to a One Health response to COVID-19. Her latest article demonstrates that an urban view of this biosecurity perspective is necessary, and argues One Healthy Cities are central to pandemic preparedness and recovery and are instrumental in confronting equity challenges.

19.01.2022 SPHCM Online Seminar: Stigma monitoring and stigma reduction intervention Presented by Scientia Professor Carla Treloar and Dr Timothy Broady... Wednesday, 19 August 2020 12:00 1:00pm The seminar will be recorded To listen to the seminar:

18.01.2022 Freddy Sitas and Ben Harris-Roxas from SPH’s Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity have co-authored an opinion piece with fellow researchers on Smoking and epidemics of respiratory infections. Published online in the WHO Bulletin, the piece examines the role of smoking in respiratory diseases including COVID-19. Read more:

18.01.2022 Congratulations to PhD final year candidate Buna Bhandari Bhattarai, on receiving the Postgraduate Council (PGC) Research Student Award 2020 from Arc PGC and Graduate Research School UNSW!

17.01.2022 I love how UNSW’s SPH does ‘education’. Balancing work, life and studying, I felt like I had full control over my learning experience. I enjoyed how many of the courses in the Master of Health Management program had assignment topics related to my workplace allowing me to apply the course material in a real-world setting. SPH’s 2018 alumnus Justin Thomas is Chief Paramedic Officer at King Khalid International Airport, Saudi Arabia. As he begins his doctorate at Oxford University on Airport Healthcare, Justin talks about how the masters’ program at UNSW defined his academic and professional journey. Read more:

17.01.2022 Our findings confirm that routine data from residential aged-care can feasibly be used to identify individuals at risk of death and/or hospital transfer and highlights the feasibility of documenting key risk factors in aged-care databases, and the need for improved clinical profiles to flag residents whose management warrants an end-of-life discussion as a matter of priority, says Associate Lecturer Ebony Lewis on her new collaborative study focusing on elders at risk in Australian residential aged care. Link to the paper:

16.01.2022 This project was a true partnership from the very beginning with academics learning from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and leaders working in health, who in turn built their research skills working alongside researchers says the SPHCM's senior lecturer Sally Nathan, who worked on The Career Pathways Project, a collaborative study to understand what helps build a stronger Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce. Released on Sunday, the report lists 44 recommendations on the way forward. Read more:

16.01.2022 People's Choice Award! Let's continue the discussion about what does decolonising global health mean to you. We’re opening up the student competition on decolonising global health. Watch the 10 student entries and vote for your favourite video. Click below to watch and vote:

16.01.2022 School of Population Health Online Seminar: The experiences of Frontline Healthcare Workers in the COVID 19 epidemic in Australia Wednesday, 25 November 2020... 12:00 1:00pm To join the seminar:

15.01.2022 Population Health online seminar: Large scale observational research using routinely collected electronic health records Presented by Dr Jitendra Jonnagaddala... Wednesday 11 November 2020 12:00-1:00pm The Seminar will be recorded

15.01.2022 Int'l Day for Elimination of Violence against women 2020: Join an online panel event on Thursday 26 November, 12.30pm to understand the impact of gender-based violence on the health of women and girls, the importance of training medical doctors in this field, and intersection of gender-based violence and the pandemic. Register here:

15.01.2022 PhD Scholarship Opportunity: The NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Adolescent Health is offering a PhD scholarship for research on mental health programs in primary schools across NSW. To find out more:

14.01.2022 UNSW equipped me to be a well-rounded master’s degree holder, and that’s exactly what organisations are looking for! International alumnus Nikita Bathla has just secured a position as a research assistant at The George Institute for Global Health (TGI) in her home country of India, where she is contributing to a range of COVID-19 related studies. Nikita speaks about her degree at the SPH and how it led to where she is now:

14.01.2022 Population Health Online Seminar: Research on trauma and injury in NSW: current practices and future directions Presented by A/Prof Michael Dinh and Dr Pooria Sarrami... Wednesday, 14 October 2020 12:00 1:00pm The seminar will be recorded.

14.01.2022 Challenges in detecting and responding to outbreaks in remote and rural areas of Pacific Islands In their latest article SPH academic, Adam Craig and his colleagues in the Solomon Islands explain how a severe diarrhoeal outbreak among an isolated community, revealed barriers to delivery of health protection services in rural and remote locations in the country. Further policy consideration is required to ensure those at the periphery of the system have access to the best curative, health-protecting and health promotion that circumstances allow, they say. Read the full article:

13.01.2022 I have to say that critical decision-making and critical staff, with critical expertise, are a real struggle... Id like to acknowledge the role that universities have (played) in releasing some of their very senior staff to support us at the time of need. That was much appreciated." Dr Kerry Chant, Chief Health Officer, NSW joined Prof Mary-Louise McLaws, and Dr Mark Wenitong, from Apunipima Cape York Health Council and member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Group on COVID 19 in a panel discussion at the School. Listen in:

12.01.2022 In case you missed SPH's webinar on 'Decolonizing Global Health' where panelists dissected issues like race, diversity, funding, ethics, and how we share knowledge, here's the link:

12.01.2022 Kirby Institute’s Prof C Raina MacIntyre explains why contact-tracing is key to containing a pandemic and touches upon several methods to scale up capacity to do it effectively. Read more:

12.01.2022 Don't forget to join our online seminar today at 12pm. Should be an interesting talk!

12.01.2022 As new cases surface in NSW, SPH’s Dr Abrar Chughtai explains why easing social-distancing restrictions is not that simple. Read more:

12.01.2022 UNSW epidemiologist, Professor Mary-Louise McLaws, has been one of the leading voices on COVID-19 since the outbreak began. Speaking to The Project, she shares insights on her early life, family, the 'pool boy', and the true heroes of the pandemic. Thank you for your tireless efforts, Professor McLaws Watch here:

11.01.2022 COVID-19: Exit strategy In an article published in The Lancet, School of Population Healths Anita E Heywood and Kirby Institutes C Raina Macintyre argue that in the absence of a WHO goal for COVID-19 elimination, individual countries must develop their own criteria for disease-control and definition of country-wide elimination. Read here:

11.01.2022 Population Health Online Seminar: When work impacts mental health. What can fire fighters teach us about how to support healthcare workers during COVID? Presented by Associate Professor Samuel Harvey... Wednesday, 18 November 2020 12:00 1:00pm

11.01.2022 Population Health Online Seminar Wednesday 7 October 12:00-1:00pm This seminar will be recorded.

10.01.2022 TODAY, Thursday 13th August 4pm Dr Kerry Chant, NSW Chief Health Officer, will join Professor Mary-Louise McLaws from the School, and Dr Mark Wenitong, member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Group on COVID-19, to discuss our response to the pandemic, lessons learnt, and the way forward. The panel, moderated by ABC's Sarah Dingle, will allow questions from the audience. Register here:

10.01.2022 Seven UNSW Sydney researchers have been named as finalists for the 2020 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, for their outstanding achievements in the fields of leadership, research and innovation. Details:

09.01.2022 Is it safe to sing in COVID times? A video study by UNSW’s C Raina MacIntyre, Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, Charitha de Silva, Con Doolan, Prateek Bahl, and Shovon Bhattacharjee, shows just how easily COVID-19 could spread when people sing together. Read more:

09.01.2022 UN Foundation features SPHs Dr Holly Seale and PhD student Saiful Islam for their study on the harmful impact of misinformation on COVID-19. Join the campaign to share life-saving facts and halt the spread of the virus:

09.01.2022 "If smoking is found to be responsible for 10% of COVID-19 deaths (and it may well be more), over 200,000 deaths could have been avoided by now," say A/Prof Freddy Sitas and A/Prof Ben Harris-Roxas from the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at SPH. According to their new research around a quarter of deaths from infectious respiratory disease could be avoided annually by not smoking. "During COVID and in future pandemic situations and normal ‘flu’ seasons, anti-smoki...ng programs can usefully focus on the known role smoking plays in causing infectious respiratory disease with people being more motivated to quit," they say. The research was published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) as a special supplement on COVID-19 Megatrends, with co-authors from The Global Burden of Disease Group Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences at UniMelb and SA Medical Research Council. #BeatNCDs Read more:

08.01.2022 Get to know the Professors - Presented by Professor and Head of School, Rebecca Ivers: Why injury? My journey through research, policy and implementation... Wednesday, 23 September 2020 12:00 1:00pm The seminar will be recorded To listen to the seminar:

08.01.2022 Elimination, eradication and the myth of 'living with' a certain level of COVID-19: School of Population Healths Anita E Heywood and Kirby Institutes C Raina Macintyre explain the epidemiology definitions you should know before tuning in to another COVID-19 press update and the ones Australia needs to work on. Read more:

08.01.2022 What misconceptions do we still have about women's minds and bodies? On International Women’s Day, join British science journalist Angela Saini and leading Australian cancer researcher A/Prof. Caroline Ford, of UNSW Medicine & Health, for a conversation about persistent bias in science and medical research. #UNSWideas #IWD2021 #WomensHealth #WomenInSTEMM #GenderEquity

07.01.2022 Global Health @ SPH Tune in to Adam Craigs latest podcast where he interviews Dr Aalisha Sahukhan (Head of Health Security, Ministry of Health, Fiji) and Prof Patrick Reading (Doherty Institute) about Fijis response to COVID-19 and the work being done to build library capacity in the smaller Pacific island countries to test for the virus. Full episode:

06.01.2022 Vera Buss from the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity (CPHCE) has collaborated with fellow researchers from the University of Canberra to explore MedsCheck, an Australian in-pharmacy medication review program, focusing on the perceived effectiveness of the program, barriers to its optimal delivery, and the integration with other services. Pharmacists believe the program improves patient engagement and education, but there are barriers in service delivery. For details:

06.01.2022 Population Health Online Seminar: Realigning global health research: How can we put marginalised people in the centre? Presented by Dr Yogesh Jain, co-founder of Jan Swasthya Sahyog India... Thursday 24 September 2020 1.30pm-3pm No booking required

05.01.2022 We are excited to announce a new Program of Research in Justice Health at the School. The Justice Health Research Program (JHRP) led by Professor Tony Butler will be moving from Kirby Institute to SPHCM. JHRP works on projects involving adult and juvenile prisoners, community-based offenders; examining the health backgrounds of prisoners and developing interventions to improve their health outcomes. Professor Butler brings with him years of research and teaching experience in the field of offender health with interests in mental health, blood-borne viral infections, smoking cessation, health surveillance, the development of health indicators for prisoners and more. He and his team will move to the School this month, bringing with them exciting prospects of new research and areas of study for our current staff and students. Read more:

05.01.2022 Smoke-related health costs of 2019-20 bushfires estimated at $1.95 billion: A study co-authored by UNSW Medicine Conjoint Professor Bin Jalaludin in collaboration with the University of Tasmania, reveals the unprecedented health impact of the 2019/20 fire season and shows how the most affected states were New South Wales ($1.07 billion), followed by Victoria ($493 million) and Queensland ($224 million). Read more:

05.01.2022 As it launches a Masters' program in Global Health, SPH has been challenging its students to think about what decolonisation of global health means to them. In a video competition held recently, 11 fantastic videos were received. Congratulations to the four winners Myron Godinho, Rubana Islam, Samuel Harley, and Alex Ankomah for their inspiring take on the topic! You can watch the student videos towards the end of the seminar:

05.01.2022 Could a citizen science project in the Solomon Islands help the Pacific Islands tackle a problem with Aedes mosquito outbreaks? A research project led by SPH’s Adam Craig looking at solutions has been awarded a grant by Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and Ambassade de France en Australie. The Aedes mosquito is the main transmitter of dengue, Zika, and chikungunya viruses. Congratulations Adam! UNSW Medicine & Health... Find out more:

05.01.2022 Recruitment Opportunity@ NSW Health! NSW Health has the following positions open at the Public Health Response Branch (PHRB) in their COVID response team: 1. Data Analyst 2. Senior Data Analyst... 3. Epidemiologist 4. Surveillance Officer 5. Public Health Procedures Team Member 6. Operations Team Member Click and apply:

04.01.2022 "As the debate in Ireland meanders towards introducing hotel quarantine, there are clear lessons and logistics that need to be considered." Dr Éidín Ní Shé from SPH reflects on her personal experience and writes in The Irish Times about what Ireland can learn from Australia's quarantine system, such as tight logistics, collaboration and clear leadership. Read here:

04.01.2022 WHO is inviting applications for a 4-week online training program in infodemic management. The call is open to experienced professionals from epidemiology, risk communication, health service delivery/health care workers, digital health, policy making (in health and intersectoral), who are responding to the current COVID-19 and overlapping infodemics at country level. To apply:

04.01.2022 Join SPH’s Assoc Prof Xiaoqi Feng as she interviews Dr Marco Martuzzi, Head of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health of the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, on Thursday, 26 November 2020. This is a part of the Career and Research Talk series, by the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, where Prof Feng serves as an Executive Councillor. Event details:

03.01.2022 Professor Evelyne de Leeuw, Director of the Centre for Health Equity Training, Research and Evaluation (CHETRE) and Editor-in-Chief, Health Promotion International writes a pertinent piece on the dangers of predatory journals, hyper prolific publishing and suggests ways to sift fact from fiction. Read here:

03.01.2022 A study led by final year medical student Milo Darmopil-Kerslake and Prof Tony Butler finds that risky alcohol consumption is common among prisoners across Australia and has a well-stablished link to offending behaviour. The paper makes a strong case for prison-based screening and alcohol interventions targeting prisoners. Read here:

02.01.2022 I always knew that public health work is important, says Anil, but COVID-19 has taken the importance to a new level. Anil Singh-Prakash is Administration Manager at the SPHCM, helping to develop the School's new strategic focus and expanding its Bachelor Degree program. She is currently focused on student recruitment and ensuring that the school meets the enrolment plan set for 2020 a task that COVID-19 has made highly atypical. Anil talks about the changes to her work ...brought on by COVID-19, as well as the importance of public health work and education in a post-COVID-19 world. Read here:

02.01.2022 As Victoria looks at easing lockdown restrictions, UNSWs Prof Mary-Louise McLaws explains why it is imperative to tread with caution. Read more:

02.01.2022 SPH's Dr Holly Seale explains why we need to stop relying on the idea of a COVID-19 vaccine as a silver bullet. Read more:

02.01.2022 Were super excited for our next 2 webinars to be held on Monday 10th of August: Using Data to support and empower our Indigenous Peoples. These webinars are he...ld in conjunction with the UNs International Day of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples and aims to raise awareness and protect the rights of the worlds indigenous population. We acknowledge the differences in circumstances between indigenous peoples of New Zealand and Australia and therefore for this topic will be hosting 2 separate webinars back to back. The first will be focused on the Maori population of New Zealand and the second, for the first peoples of Australia and we encourage you to attend both if you can! Register below: https://data4good.com.au/international-day-of-the-worlds-i/ #IndigenousPeoples #IPsDay2020 #IndigenousPeoplesDay #data4good #data4goodanz #dataforgood #dataanalytics #dataconsultants #datascience #socialjustice #socialchange #jointhemovement #makeadifference

01.01.2022 Applying an equity lens to urban policy measures for COVID-19 in four cities Publication: Cities and Health Co-authors: Ben Cave, Jinhee Kim, Patrick Harris - CHETRE Researchers at UNSWs Centre for Health Equity Training, Research and Evaluation (CHETRE) compare urban responses of four cities: Sydney, Milan, Seoul and London, to COVID-19 to understand how cities can ensure that equity informs all policy measures for pandemics. In a recently published paper, they look at s...ocio-spatial relations and how the pandemic is reinforcing existing, and creating new, inequities. Read more:

01.01.2022 Population Health Online Seminar: 20 year sentence: little prospect of release - reflections on 20 years of prisoner and offender health research Presented by Professor Tony Butler Wednesday, 16 September 2020... 12:00 1:00pm The seminar will be recorded To listen to the seminar: See more

01.01.2022 Does Global Health still mimic our colonial past? Are we perpetuating historical biases and disparities in the field? Is the transfer of knowledge, skill and funding in Global Health unfairly unidirectional? How can we dismantle skewed power structures to make Global Health truly local? If these are questions that pique your interest, then join the School of Population Health at 4pm on 29th October for a politically charged conversation on what it means to truly decolonise global health and what we as a university can do to disrupt the system. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/decolonising-global-health-

01.01.2022 Population Health Online Seminar: Person-centered approaches to developing measures to counter child injury Presented by A/Prof Julie Brown... Wednesday 2 September 2020 12:00-1:00pm The seminar will be recorded To listen to the seminar: