Monash Public Health and Preventive Medicine

Our child protection and out-of-home care systems need more than just tinkering around the edges! They need reimagining to better support children who have experienced trauma - either prior to or after entry into these systems. This involves embedding an ethics of care into all levels of policy and practice, and moving away from focusing on risk management and control. Our latest #MonashHSCU Policy and Practice Pack is full of recommendations and resources for policy and practice professionals for doing this. Check it out: https://lnkd.in/gBgQp5VG #MonashHSCU Monash Public Health and Preventive Medicine Tatiana Corrales Hayley Wainwright Angie Jaman Helen Skouteris

Congratulations to Denise O'Connor, for securing a place in the prestigious AAHMS Mentorship Program announced by the Academy today - a fantastic personal achievement and wonderful to have SPHPM representation among this highly accomplished cohort!

Congratulations to Ilana Ackerman and Rachelle Buchbinder for their significant contribution to the revised Clinical Care Standard for Osteoarthritis of the Knee published by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care last week, followed by an editorial in the #MJA yesterday.

Coordinator of our MPH Indonesia program Henry Surendra, MPH, PhD, FRSPH featured in an interview on the Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance website this week. The interview sees him open up about personal experiences that drove his passion for addressing health inequities, and his work to anticipate and help prepare for the next pandemic. https://lnkd.in/giRcDCBA

Exciting news as our Epidemiological Modellers James Trauer Romain Ragonnet Angus Hughes and David Shipman and were announced overnight as finalists in the prestigious Eureka Prizes. Read more and watch a short video about their work developing and sharing software to support COVID control policy across the Asia-Pac region here: https://lnkd.in/gdQtknf7

Important work coming out of our CRE-SPHERE team, elevating the role of nurses in providing sexual and reproductive health care to rural and regional Australians https://lnkd.in/g8zahjnZ

Menopausal symptoms can have a huge impact on lives, and without good evidence in place, those affected can waste a lot of time and money on ineffective treatments. Here's what our Women's Health Research Program team are doing about it: https://lnkd.in/g5wyjP7M Monash Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Lauren Pearson is the next guest on our Public Health Insiders podcast! Hear how she overcame anxiety about leaving university without a structured career path to follow (i.e. 'nurse', 'doctor', 'physiotherapist') and found her passion - providing evidence to support policies that lead to bike-friendly communities. Catch it on Spotify here: https://lnkd.in/g5djYR7h Monash Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Great to see some evidence-based insights being injected into the debate over inner city road speed limits in this SBS News article, courtesy of Lauren Pearson https://lnkd.in/g-BRMiQq

An interesting read from Karin Hammarberg and colleagues around mitochondrial donation #mito https://lnkd.in/gcyFj2nj