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SUMMARY:1291st OGM and Open Lecture: What are the best options for growing Australia’s mental health through the COVID-19 recovery?
DESCRIPTION:What are the best options for growing Australia’s mental health through the COVID-19 recovery?\n \nProfessor Ian Hickie AM FRSN FASSA FAHMS FRANZCP\nCo-Director\, Brain and Mind Centre\, University of Sydney \nThe concept of building the ‘mental wealth’ of Australia\, namely\, the collective cognitive and emotional resources of our citizens\, was increasingly being adopted nationally (and internationally) prior to the COVID19 pandemic (1). Although the range of public policy options\, operative right across the life span\, was being scoped\, formal implementation had not proceeded. While Australia has been spared the worst direct physical health effects\, and social disruption\, associated with the pandemic\, it would be a mistake to think that we do not still face many economic and social challenges that are likely to have major effects on our collective mental health and wellbeing. \nFormal dynamic systems modelling (DSM) by our team at the Brain and Mind Centre of the University of Sydney (2\, 3) has indicated not only the extent to which Australia’s mental health may be adversely impacted\, but also which sets of economic\, education\, social and mental health policies may be most relevant in these very different circumstances. These are choices that need to be made urgently (and implemented) – like the variations in JobKeeper\, JobSeeker and education funding. Whether those most at risk of bad mental health outcomes – namely\, young people and women in casual work\, are actually supported at this time\, has major long-term ramifications. \nBy using formal simulations\, and making the likely impacts of different choices more transparent (what works\, what does harm\, what is just ineffective)\, DSM offers a more empirically-based way of approaching this area of complex decision making. \nProfessor Ian Hickieis Co-Director\, Health and Policy\, at The University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre. He is a NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow (2013-2017 and 2018-22)\, having previously been one of the inaugural NHMRC Australian Fellows (2008-12). He was an inaugural Commissioner on Australia’s National Mental Health Commission (2012-18) overseeing enhanced accountability for mental health reform and suicide prevention. He is an internationally renowned researcher in clinical psychiatry\, with particular reference to medical aspects of common mood disorders\, depression and bipolar disorder. He is now focused on the development of real-time personalized and measurement-based care systems for use in partnership with young people and their families. These systems promote early intervention\, use of new and emerging technologies and suicide prevention. In his role with the National Mental Health Commission\, and his independent research\, health system and advocacy roles\, Professor Hickie has been at the forefront of the move to have mental health and suicide prevention integrated with other aspects of health care (notably chronic disease and ambulatory care management). \nFor details and registration…read more. 
URL:https://www.scienceaustralia.org.au/event/1291st-ogm-and-open-lecture-what-are-the-best-options-for-growing-australias-mental-health-through-the-covid-19-recovery/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:New South Wales
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210311T190000
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SUMMARY:Championing Translation & Commercialisation of Australian Medical Research
DESCRIPTION:Although Australia has a vibrant research sector supported by world class infrastructure\, our commercialisation productivity continues to decline. \nThe medical technologies\, biotechnology and pharmaceutical (MTP) sector in Australia is vibrant and critical to Australia’s economy\, the health outcomes of the population and the innovation ecosystem. With nearly 1\,300 companies and 68\,000 jobs across industry and research\, the MTP sector is a major contributor to the Australian economy. \nThe sector enables access to innovative therapies and medical devices that assist in the diagnosis\, treatment and monitoring of disease\, which delivers significant benefits to patients and improving overall population health outcomes.  The MTP value chain extends from research where discoveries and inventions are made\, to pre-clinical and clinical development and to manufacturing and market launch of products. It encompasses a wide range of participants\, each playing a critical role in the sector’s growth and success. \nJoin Dr Rebecca Tunstall from MTPConnect as she discusses how the sector is being supported to bring outcomes of Australian medical research to market\, some of the challenges of commercialisation\, and of course the success stories and opportunities for Australia as we move forward. \nStreamed online as part of the Inspiring Victoria initiative in 2021.\nTickets are available below to participate in the webinar via Zoom and/or Eventbrite. RSV Members are prompted to enter their promotional code to access a member’s ticket. Alternatively\, you can watch along via Facebook Live at the appointed time without buying a ticket. \nFor details and registration information…read more. 
URL:https://www.scienceaustralia.org.au/event/championing-translation-commercialisation-of-australian-medical-research/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:Victoria
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210325T190000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210325T201500
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SUMMARY:Changing Forests in a Changing Climate: What might the future hold?
DESCRIPTION:Over the past 25 years the forests of south-eastern Australia have taken a pounding — the Millennium Drought\, the Eastern Alps/Canberra fires of 2003\, the Great Divide bushfires of 2006/7\, the Black Saturday fires of 2009\, the 2017-19 drought\, and\, most recently\, the unprecedented 2019/20 fire season. Model projections of climate in the coming decades suggest that the frequency and intensity of droughts and fire are likely to increase. \nThis raises an obvious\, and troubling\, question: Are the region’s forests able to persist under this onslaught of climate-driven disturbance? \nIn answering this question\, we need to consider whether there is a role for forest management and\, if so\, what that might look like. Join Professor Patrick Baker\, who will put recent climate variability into a broader historical context\, discuss the implications of expected future climates for forests and forest dynamics\, and consider forest management practices that might help to buffer south-eastern Australia’s forests against climate-related disturbances. \nStreamed online as part of the Inspiring Victoria initiative in 2021.\nTickets are available below to participate in the webinar via Zoom and/or Eventbrite. RSV Members are prompted to enter their promotional code to access a member’s ticket. Alternatively\, you can watch along via Facebook Live at the appointed time without buying a ticket. \nFor details and registration information…read more. 
URL:https://www.scienceaustralia.org.au/event/changing-forests-in-a-changing-climate-what-might-the-future-hold/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:Victoria
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210407T070000
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SUMMARY:1292nd OGM and Open Lecture: Antarctica\, this ain’t no mirage: the value of art in disseminating scientific information
DESCRIPTION:Antarctica\, this ain’t no mirage: the value of art in disseminating scientific information\n \nLea Kannar-Lichtenberger\nContemporary Artist \nIn this talk Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger will explore just one of the islands she has investigated and\, through her art\, has raised awareness about the impact that our contemporary society is having on these often-idealised environments. Through the use of her time-based installations\, photography and sculptures\, along with her paintings and drawings\, Lea works to make science more accessible to the community at large. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn January 2017 Lea travelled to Antarctica. This journey was unusual\, not just because it was with a not-for-profit organisation\, no room service or cabin attendants\, but also as it was in many ways in the footsteps of the adventurer explorer. Her journey here resulted in artworks and exhibitions that have been seen across Australia in universities and art galleries\, with her goal to bring the plight of the remote into the lives of the everyday person. \nLea Kannar-Lichtenberger is an Australian contemporary artist who disseminates her research and artistic vision\, as an ‘artist at large’ by presenting her response and advocacy for environmental issues. Her investigations into evolution\, contemporary society\, and the impact of tourism on island environments has seen Lea do onsite examinations through immersive residencies or eco-tourism inquiries in; the South Shetland Islands specifically Deception Island (Antarctica) 2017\, the Faroe Islands (The North Sea) 2015\, the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) 2014\, Lord Howe Island (NSW Australia) 2014 & 2015 and in 2021 an Artist at Sea residency with the Schmidt Ocean Institute. Lea creates artworks and installations that examine a window into the impact of the Anthropocene and contemporary consumerism on the viewed utopian destination. Lea has disseminated this research and her unique perspective through lectures\, paper presentations and peer reviewed journals. \nLea Kannar-Lichtenberger has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at Edith Cowan University Western Australia\, and Griffith University\, Queensland\, and group exhibitions including Sculpture by the Sea (Sydney and Cottesloe)\, the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing and the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize. Internationally her work has been shown at the Venice Summer Academy\, Stunning Edge Exhibition Taiwan\, the New York Hall of Science\, Galway International Arts Festival Ireland\, the SVA (the School of Visual Arts) at the Flatiron Building in Manhattan and the NYABF at the MOMA annexe PS1\, New York. \nFor details and registration…read more. 
URL:https://www.scienceaustralia.org.au/event/1292nd-ogm-and-open-lecture-antarctica-this-aint-no-mirage-the-value-of-art-in-disseminating-scientific-information/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:New South Wales
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