THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Melbourne School MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF POPULATION HEALTH ACADEMIC PROGRAMS OFFICE of Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, M Population Health University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia ELBOURNE Tel: +61 3 8344 9338/9339 Annual Report Fax: +61 3 8344 0824 Email: [email protected] www.sph.unimelb.edu.au S CENTRES AND UNITS Sexual Health Unit CHOOL 2010 Melbourne Sexual Health Centre Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic 580 Swanston Street Faculty of Medicine, and Analytic Epidemiology University of Melbourne Level 1, 723 Swanston Street Victoria 3010 Australia OF Dentistry and Health Sciences University of Melbourne Tel: +61 3 9341 6236 P Victoria 3010 Australia Fax: +61 3 9347 6757 Tel: +61 3 8344 0637 Email: [email protected] OPULATION Fax: +61 3 9349 5815 www.mshc.org.au Email: [email protected] www.epi.unimelb.edu.au The McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Centre for Health and Society Community Wellbeing Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street H University of Melbourne University of Melbourne EALTH Victoria 3010 Australia Victoria 3010 Australia Tel: +61 3 8344 3015 Tel: +61 3 8344 9101 Fax: +61 3 8344 0824 Fax: +61 3 9348 2832 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] A www.mccaugheycentre.unimelb.edu.au www.chs.unimelb.edu.au NNUAL CENTRE FOR MEGA EPIDEMIOLOGY Centre for Women’s Health, Gender and Society Vaccine and Immunisation Research Group Level 2, 723 Swanston Street, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street University of Melbourne CENTRE FOR HEALTH POLICY, PROGRAMS & ECONOMICS University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia Victoria 3010 Australia RE Tel: +61 3 8344 9325 Tel: +61 3 8344 4333 PORT CENTRE FOR HEALTH & SOCIETY Fax: +61 3 9347 9824 Fax: +61 3 9348 1827 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.kcwhs.unimelb.edu.au 2010 Indigenous Eye Health Unit CENTRE FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH, GENDER AND SOCIETY Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street University of Melbourne CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia Victoria 3010 Australia Tel: +61 3 8344 9320 Tel: +61 3 8344 9111 Fax: +61 3 9348 1827 MCCAUGHEY VICHEALTH CENTRE Fax: +61 3 9348 1174 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.healthprograms.unimelb.edu.au SEXUAL HEALTH UNIT Centre for International Mental Health VACCINE AND IMMUNISATION RESEARCH GROUP Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia INDIGENOUS EYE HEALTH UNIT Tel: +61 3 8344 0908 Fax: +61 3 9348 2794 Email: [email protected] www.cimh.unimelb.edu.au Melbourne School Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences of Population Health Melbourne Annual report 2010 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 31 Australian * International Centre for Health and Society Health Institute CENTRE FOR HEALTH & SOCIETY 35 * Centre for Women’s Health, Gender and Society School of * School of CENTRE FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH, GENDER AND SOCIETY 43 Dental McCaughey Centre Medicine Science * McCAUGHEY CENTRE 51 Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics School of * School of Behavioural Centre for International Mental Health Rural CENTRE FOR HEALTH POLICY, PROGRAMS & ECONOMICS 63 Science * Health Sexual Health Unit CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH 81 * School of Vaccine and Immunisation Research Group School of Nursing Physiotherapy * SEXUAL HEALTH UNIT 93 Indigenous Eye Health Unit VACCINE AND IMMUNISATION RESEARCH GROUP 99 INDIGENOUS EYE HEALTH UNIT 105 PUBLICATIONS REPORT 2010 111 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 OF POPULATION HEALTH approach in all areas of health care and in the community where opportunities for disease and injury SUMMARY REPORT 2010 prevention exist. Centre and the Centre for Women’s Health, Gender What is population health? and Society (CWHGS) (detailed in each centre’s Population health is an approach overview) were extremely complimentary. Among to health that aims to improve the other aspects, the reviewers noted their overall health of the entire population and success in grant procurement, research output and to reduce health inequities among Head of the population groups. Melbourne policy relevance. The study of population health is School of We also did our own review within the School, Population focused on understanding health prompted by the restructuring of our Master of Health, and disease in the community, and Professor Public Health (MPH) and Master of Health Social Terry Nolan. on improving health and well-being Sciences (MHSS). Our dynamic, flexible, up-to-date through priority health approaches programs respond to the needs of both students and addressing the disparities in health their current and future employers and commence status between social groups MESSAGE enrolments in 2011. The withdrawal of federal (Australian Institute for Health and government funding from the consortium in which Welfare). FROM THE we had previously delivered a collaborative MPH OUR MISSION led to the restructure. Our collaboration with other To conduct and enhance research HEAD OF SCHOOL universities had produced a strong MPH program. that addresses issues of population Over this past year, the pressures on universities However, this fresh start enables us to tailor both health and health social sciences, to deliver more with fewer resources have programs to maximise our School’s resources, and to educate undergraduates and intensified. Yet while competition for research including our most powerful asset – our talented postgraduate students, clinicians, funding has never been fiercer, the Melbourne staff. Early indications are that our students are scientists, professionals and public health leaders through the School of Population Health (MSPH) has continued very excited by the new programs and enrolments enrichment of our educational are on track to set a record high. to substantially increase its research income, both programs in public health. from prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) The departure and arrival of leaders within our The Melbourne School of and National Health and Medical Research Council School allows me to look back and to look ahead: (NHMRC) grants and public sector sources within Population Health aims to to appreciate the contributions of senior staff strengthen the understanding, Australia and overseas. leaving and anticipate the fresh perspectives capacity and services of society to This unprecedented growth in our research funding of those arriving. I would like to pay tribute to meet population health needs and is not a one-off spike but a trend. Between 2004 Professor Ian Anderson, the former Director of the to improve the quality and equity of and 2010, our total research income almost trebled, Centre for Health in Society (CHS) and Onemda. His health care. increasing from $9 million to $25.8 million. In 2010, appointment as founding head of Murrup Barak is the The population health approach $12.7 million (49%) of this total was procured from culmination of his pioneering work in establishing recognises that health is a capacity government and other public sector agencies. Most academic indigenous health within the University of or resource rather than a state, a of their grants commissioned research into policy Melbourne through Onemda. Professor Anderson’s definition which corresponds more questions of urgent public health interest. To have respected standing as a scholar and leader in to the notion of being able to pursue agencies of the calibre of the National Institutes academia, his valuable contributions to knowledge one’s goals, to acquire skills and of Health in the United States and the Victorian transfer, and his nationally recognised role as an education and to grow. Cancer Agency look to our School for answers advisor to governments are just some of his many This broader notion of health validates the relevance and excellence of our work. achievements. He is profiled in the CHS report. recognises the range of social, economic and physical Independent reviews of three of our centres in Also on indigenous health, I congratulate Mr Shaun environmental factors that 2010 further confirmed our strong contribution to Ewen on being appointed the inaugural Associate contribute to health (Public Health preventative health. The five-yearly reviews of the Dean (Indigenous Development) within the Faculty of Agency of Canada). Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (MDHS). It Analytic (MEGA) Epidemiology, the McCaughey is a testament to his very important role in promoting 1 MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF POPULATION HEALth summARY report the development of indigenous students and his achievements within as his successor from July 2011, with Associate Professor Tony Onemda, the School and the Faculty. LaMontagne acting as Director in the interim. New research territory will open with the arrival in 2011 of Professor • The Centre for MEGA Epidemiology underwent its planned Billie Giles-Corti, the new head of the McCaughey Centre. Her ground- quinquennial