LIVING WELL: PROGRAMS, POLICY AND RESEARCH TO IMpROVE PUBLIC HEALTH
19-20 July 2010
The Public Health Association of Australia Queensland State Conference was held at the Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation at Queensland University of Technology. The conference began with a Welcome to Country by Aunty Carol Curry before Professor Ian Frazer, 2006 Australian of the Year and Director of the Diamantina Institute at the University of Queensland and the Princess Alexandra Hospital delivered a very informative keynote address: "Vaccines; progress, prospects, and challenges". Over the next one and a half days, delegates heard about programs, policy and research being conducted both locally and internationally to improve public health.
Winners of prizes at the conference were:
Best Presentation by a Student
Ruth Mabry - School of Population Health, The University of Queensland: "Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome, obesity and physical activity in the Arab Gulf Region"
Brooke Winzer - School of Medicine, The University of Queensland: "Exercise and the Prevention of Oesophageal Cancer (EPOC) study protocol"
Best Presentation by a Researcher / Practitioner
Paul Martin - Queensland Association for Healthy Communities: "LGBT Australians and the social determinants of health: Exclusion and invisability"
Travel Award
Ruth Mabry - School of Population Health, The University of Queensland
A copy of the keynote: "Vaccines: progress, prospects, and challenges" will be available on this website shortly.
Photos
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