Events 
School of Population Health Winter School, June 10-13
10/06/2013 - 13/06/2013
The School of Population Health will be running a series of short courses developed for the wider health sector. This year’s programme offers 10 great full-on day-long short courses with popular workshops from 2012 as well as a number of new courses. >>
The 2013 Harkness Report-Back Seminar: Strategies to Improve Care Integration - Lessons From Rural Patient Centred Medical Homes
29/05/2013
Every year the most recently-returned Harkness Fillow In Health Care Policy and Practice reports back to a New Zealand audience about his/her research conducted during the Fellowship; draws some condusions from the research within the US and New Zealand contexts; and speaks about his/her Harkness Fellowship experience. During her Harkness Fellowship, Dr Sarah Derrett was based at the Department of Medeone at the University of Chicago where she investigated integrated health care In rural American Safety Net Clinics and larger Community Health Centres. Sarah’s project aimed to increase understanding about how, in practice, rural clinics transitioning to patient-centred medical homes (PCMH) have implemented a plan to sustain care integration. >>
Methods & Issues seminar: Identification of the barriers to the early diagnosis of lung cancer - a mixed methods approach
23/05/2013
Lung cancer is a major cause of mortality and health inequalities in New Zealand Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in New Zealand, with five-year survival rates being lower in New Zealand than in other Western countries, and survival for Maori even worse at less than half of that for non-Maori. Survival from lung cancer is linked to disease stage at diagnosis. Thus identifying approaches to diagnose lung cancer earlier has the potential to improve health outcomes significantly. >>
Workshop: How to Design a Randomized Controlled Trial in Primary Care or the Community
22/05/2013
The workshop will demonstrate the principles of RCT design and allow participants to take the first steps toward designing a RCT, either theoretical or planned. Principles of simple RCT design and examples of successful trials from primary care and the community will be presented over the first hour. Participants will then break into groups of 3-4 and design their own RCTs for 1½-2 hours with help from the instructor. Designs will be presented and discussed over the last half hour. The workshop does not aim to produce fully-designed RCTs but is the first step in teaching the principles of RCT design. >>
Tömaiora Seminar: Researching Mäori Intergenerational Trauma
21/05/2013
Historical trauma is a term that has been used by Native academics since the 1980s to describe the "cumulative emotional and psychological wounding over the lifespan and across generations, emanating from massive group trauma" (Braveheart. M). In Aotearoa Mäori academics have tended to use the term colonization to analyse the cultural, social, economic and health impacts on individuals and their whänau, hapu and iwi. >>
Population Health Intensive Week 2013
06/05/2013 - 10/05/2013
The annual event of PHI Week will commence on 6th May, with an additional 204 students on campus on Monday from 8:00am until approximately 1:00pm. >>
Invitation to FAR All Staff meeting
01/05/2013
FMHS Dean John Fraser invites all staff to attend an All Staff meeting to present a staffing proposal for the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, linked to the FAR project. >>
Open Dean’s Forum: ‘state of the nation’
24/04/2013
Professor John Fraser, Dean of FMHS, will be presenting a talk to the SoPH on the subject of major University and Faculty developments. The session will include discussion time after his presentation. >>
Systems thinking in policy action: reflection on the design, implementation and evaluation of Healthy Together Victoria
19/04/2013
Healthy Together Victoria is a multi-level and large scale population health initiative being undertaken in Victoria, Australia, to build a prevention system and tackle rising rates of overweight and obesity across the state. Rather than "topping up" existing program's or taking a project approach, the Victorian government has taken a "systems thinking approach" to establishing the building blocks of a prevention system and a new approach to driving change and creating demand for good health. This $120 million initiative includes prevention action from the local level operation of Healthy Together Communities involving over 40 communities, led by local governments. >>
Methods & Issues Seminars: Epidemics, industries and inequalities
18/04/2013
The so-called ‘health transition’ has seen the rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as the leading cause of death and disability, with cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes now accounting for over 60% of all deaths at a global level. Recently, some public health commentators have called for greater focus on the extent to which these ‘industrial epidemics’ are driven by deliberate strategies on the part of commercial industries – most obviously tobacco, but also multi-national alcohol and food companies. >>
Interventional Informatics: Using Big Data to Shift from Evidence-based Practice to Practice-based Evidence
17/04/2013
Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University has been on a journey towards a comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) since 2004. These efforts resulted in national attention in 2010 with the publication of the first-ever correlation between implementation of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and a decrease in hospital-wide mortality. This landmark was followed in 2011 with a New England Journal of Medicine publication describing the first-ever documented use of aggregate EMR data to make a real-time patient care decision. >>
