THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE M ELB O Melbourne School of U RN Population Health E SCHOO Annual Report L O MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF POPULATION HEALTH F ACADEMIC PROGRAMS OFFICE PO Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, PULAT 2011 University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia Tel: +61 3 8344 9338/9339 ION Fax: +61 3 8344 0824 Email: [email protected] HEALT www.sph.unimelb.edu.au H CENTRES AND UNITS ANNU Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic Centre for Health Policy, Programs and The McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre and Analytic Epidemiology Economics for the Promotion of Mental Health and CENTRE FOR MEGA EPIDEMIOLOGY Level 3, 207 Bouverie Street Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street Community Wellbeing University of Melbourne University of Melbourne Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street A Victoria 3010 Australia Victoria 3010 Australia University of Melbourne L REPO Tel: +61 3 8344 0671 Tel: +61 3 8344 9111 Victoria 3010 Australia CENTRE FOR HEALTH POLICY, PROGRAMS & ECONOMICS Fax: +61 3 9349 5815 Fax: +61 3 9348 1174 Tel: +61 3 8344 9101 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Fax: +61 3 9348 2832 www.epi.unimelb.edu.au www.healthprograms.unimelb.edu.au Email: [email protected] CENTRE FOR HEALTH AND SOCIETY www.mccaugheycentre.unimelb.edu.au R T 2011 Centre for Health and Society Centre for International Mental Health Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street Vaccine and Immunisation Research Group CENTRE FOR WOMEn’S HEALTH, GENDER AND SOCIETY University of Melbourne University of Melbourne Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street Victoria 3010 Australia Victoria 3010 Australia University of Melbourne Tel: +61 3 8344 0813 Tel: +61 3 8344 0908 Victoria 3010 Australia CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH Fax: +61 3 8344 0824 Fax: +61 3 9348 2794 Tel: +61 3 8344 9350 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Fax: +61 3 9347 6929 www.chs.unimelb.edu.au www.cimh.unimelb.edu.au Email: [email protected] McCAUGHEY VICHEALTH CENTRE www.virgo.unimelb.edu.au Centre for Women’s Health, Gender Sexual Health Unit and Society Melbourne Sexual Health Centre Indigenous Eye Health Unit SEXUAL HEALTH UNIT Level 3, 207 Bouverie Street 580 Swanston Street Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street University of Melbourne University of Melbourne University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia Victoria 3010 Australia Victoria 3010 Australia VACCINE AND IMMUNISATION RESEARCH GROUP Tel: +61 3 8344 0717 Tel: +61 3 9341 6200 Tel: +61 3 8344 9320 Fax: +61 3 9347 9824 Fax: +61 3 9341 6279 Fax : +61 3 9348 1827 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] INDIGENOUS EYE HEALTH UNIT www.cwhgs.unimelb.edu.au www.mshc.org.au www.iehu.unimelb.edu.au Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Melbourne School Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences of Population Health Melbourne Annual report 2011 School of Centre for Population Health Neuroscience MSPH SUMMARY REPORT 1 Nossal Institute of Global Health Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology CENTRE FOR MEGA EPIDEMIOLOGY 35 Australian * Health Workforce Centre for Health and Society Institute CENTRE FOR HEALTH AND SOCIETY 41 * Centre for Women’s Health, Gender and Society Peter Doherty * Institute CENTRE FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH, GENDER AND SOCIETY 49 McCaughey Centre * McCAUGHEY CENTRE 59 Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics Centre for Youth * Mental Health Melbourne Centre for International Mental Health Dental School CENTRE FOR HEALTH POLICY, PROGRAMS & ECONOMICS 71 * Sexual Health Unit CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH 89 Melbourne * School of Melbourne Vaccine and Immunisation Research Group Health Medical Sciences * School SEXUAL HEALTH UNIT 101 Indigenous Eye Health Unit VACCINE AND IMMUNISATION RESEARCH GROUP 107 INDIGENOUS EYE HEALTH UNIT 111 PUBLICATIONS REPORT 2011 119 Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences CENTRE FOR HEALSUMMTH & ASocRY IREPORTetY MELBOURNE SCHOOL The Melbourne School of Population Health’s vision is to inculcate a population health approach in all OF POPULATION HEALTH areas of health care and in the community where opportunities for Summary Report 2011 disease and injury prevention exist. WHAT IS POPULATION of Education and Melbourne Institute of Applied HEALTH? Population health is an approach and Social Economic Research. to health that aims to improve the We tendered successfully for Australia’s first major health of the entire population and longitudinal study of male health. The Australian to reduce health inequities among Head of the Longitudinal Study on Male Health, called ‘Ten population groups. Melbourne To Men’, will recruit 58,000 males between the The study of population health is School of Population ages of 10 and 55 to take part in a broad-ranging focused on understanding health Health, program of research. The study is led by Professor and disease in the community, and Professor Jane Pirkis and Professor Dallas English from the on improving health and well-being Terry Nolan. Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics through priority health approaches (CHPPE) and Centre for MEGA Epidemiology. addressing the disparities in health status between social groups MESSAGE We launched a completely re-engineered Master of (Australian Institute for Health and Public Health (MPH) degree in 2011. Our students Welfare). FROM THE are very enthusiastic about the program and OUR MISSION unprecedented growth in student numbers was To conduct and enhance research HEAD OF SCHOOL seen. This has prompted expansion of the program that addresses issues of population for 2012 with the introduction of an Indigenous health and health social sciences, POPULATION HEALTH ThRIVES Health specialisation and overseas placements for and to educate undergraduate and 2011 has been a year of growth, consolidation and the new Professional Practice Unit. postgraduate students, clinicians, collaboration for the School which saw the Centre scientists, professionals and We welcomed new senior staff to the School: for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic public health leaders through the Professor Billie Giles-Corti as the Director of the (MEGA) Epidemiology and Centre for Women’s enrichment of our educational McCaughey Centre; Professor Rob Moodie as programs in public health. Health, Gender and Society (CWHGS) move from Director of Teaching and Learning; Professor Philip 723 Swanston Street into redeveloped Levels The Melbourne School of Population Clarke as the University’s first Chair in Health B1 and 3, 207 Bouverie Street joining our other Health aims to strengthen the Economics. Dr Peter Kremer also joined us as a centres, units and groups along with the School understanding, capacity and Senior Research Fellow who is a key analyst on the Executive in this building. services of society to meet DEECD Research and Evaluation Partnership’s Data population health needs and to The School has established an Advisory Linkage Project. improve the quality and equity of Group chaired by Mr John Brumby, University health care. I am also delighted to report the award of major of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial honours to three leading academics associated The population health approach Fellow and former Victorian Premier; Dr Mike with our School. Professor Hugh Taylor AC has been recognises that health is a capacity Walsh, Chief Executive Officer of Cabrini appointed as University of Melbourne Laureate or resource rather than a state, a definition which corresponds more to Health; and Mr Jim Craig, who serves as an Professor, and both Professor David Studdert and the notion of being able to pursue one’s Executive Director of Macquarie Bank Limited, Professor Warwick H. Anderson were appointed Director of Cell Care Australia Propriety goals, to acquire skills and education Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate and to grow. Limited, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute Fellows. Melbourne Laureate Professors are and Director of Trinity College. The Advisory awarded by the University to its most distinguished This broader notion of health recognises the range of Group provides strategic advice to the School. academic staff, and Professor Taylor joins a social, economic and physical The Department of Education and Early Childhood highly select group. His award recognises his environmental factors that contribute Development (DEECD) Research and Evaluation outstanding contributions to eye health research to health (Public Health Agency of Partnership projects have begun with the three and ophthamology. Canada). initial projects for 2011 involving our staff in close Dr Marion Frere, Deputy Director of the McCaughey collaboration with the Melbourne Graduate School Centre since its inception in 2006, has taken up a 1 MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF POPULATION HEALth summARY report new position at the Victorian Department of Justice. Dr Frere joined learning to students within the Master of Health Social Sciences the McCaughey Centre, bringing extensive public policy experience (MHSS) program, particularly students located in Shepparton. from her previous work in the Victorian Department of Premier Funding for expansion of Levels 4 and 5, 207 Bouverie Street and Cabinet, to serve as Deputy Director as well as to lead the The School successfully applied for further funding to expand the McCaughey Centre’s research stream on reducing violence as an McCaughey Centre on Level 5 of 207 Bouverie Street and the Centre upstream