Events – What’s On
Our events are free of charge. They connect the local community of researchers interested in understanding the issues and opportunities for improved health offered by the integration of the Life Sciences and engineering and computing. We also invite the broader community to participate and be kept informed about developments in this exciting field of science and technology.
Who benefits? A question about the future of health and medical research
Professor Warwick Anderson, CEO, NHMRC
The community and governments here and around the world have increasing expectation that publicly funded research will reap benefits more quickly and fully. Expectation are particularly high for health and medical research because if offers solutions for better health care, restraining costs of providing care, and building national prosperity through innovative industry growth.
This talk will discuss who benefits from health and medical research, including individuals, health consumers, policy makers, practicioners, business, governments and researchers themselves; and how. It will outline the challenges that health and medical research faces in providing the benefits in 2013 and beyond, including the rapidly changing nature of health and medical research itself, international and local financial pressures, barriers to uptake of research findings, wider participation of the community in research, the role of the industry and private investors, ethical challenges, maintaining trust, and empowering researchers in health practice and policy development.
Date:
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Refreshments, 5pm-6pm
Presentation, 6pm-7pm
Venue:
Charles Pearson Theatre, Eastern Resource Centre (Bldg 171),
University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3025
Jabbed – love, fear and vaccines
Sonya Pemberton
Explore vaccination issues and more at a public forum with Sonya Pemberton, the producer of JABBED, a documentary premiering on SBS TV on Sunday 26 May 2013. “Diseases that were largely eradicated forty years ago are returning. Across the world children are getting sick and dying from preventable conditions because nervous parents are skipping their children’s shots. Yet the stories of vaccine reactions are frightening, with cases of people being damaged, even killed, by vaccines. How do we decide whether to vaccinate or not, and what are the real risks?
Wednesday 5 June
Refreshments, 5pm-6pm
Presentation, 6pm-7pm
Venue:
The Spot Basement Theatre,
Bldg 110, Business & Economics,
198 Berkeley St (corner Pelhem St),
University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3025
