Issue #76 February 2009

The DEPM eNews is issued monthly, in pdf format with images. Each month's feature article on research can be accessed either through the pdf or its own link below.

Please send any comments and/or items for inclusion in future issues to: depmnews@med.monash.edu.au

Contents

1. SPHPM eNews 27 February 2009
2. Schoolwide news
3. ASPREE launch 11 Feb 09
4. Successful Grant Applications
5. Awards, Promotions and Prizes
6. Visitors
7. New Staff
8. Dr Changhai Ding
9. Space committee report - Martha Sinclair
10. PhD news
11. Conference visit report
12. Publications in January and February 2009
13. In the Media
14. Unit Newsletters
15. Marketing and communication news
16. Survey on environmentally friendly policies for DEPM
17. Personal news
18. 2009 Short Courses
19. SPHPM seminar program
20. Career opportunities in Public Health
21. Application deadlines

SPHPM eNews 27 February 2009

SPHPM eNews 27 February 2009 features SPHPM news for January and February 2009. Download eNews pdf for complete, illustrated issue, attached below.

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Schoolwide news

VIFM

The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine has been and still is busy with the work generated from the Victorian bushfires, in which over 200 people have died. Many bodies yet remain to be identified.

In some cases, identification isn’t possible as intense temperatures can turn bodies to ash. See the extensive news coverage of VIFM’s involvement in the In the Media section below.

MIHSR: Training and support for Cochrane systematic reviews

The Australasian Cochrane Centre (based at the Monash Institute of Health Services Research) is offering training workshops in Melbourne during March at no cost for authors of Cochrane systematic reviews. Authors of reviews in any field including public health are welcome to attend.

An introductory workshop for new authors with a registered Cochrane review title will be held on 2-3 March. For more advanced authors (with at least a published protocol), a Review Completion and Update Program will be held on 16-20 March, providing dedicated time to work on your review and tailored, one-on-one support. Registrations close cob 2 Mar.

For further information, online registration and the Australasian Cochrane Centre’s complete training calendar, please visit www.cochrane.org.au/training/or contact Donna Duyvestyn email Donna.Duyvestyn@med.monash.edu.au ph 03 95947583.

Department of Health Science

The DHS is moving from the Peninsula campus to Caulfield this week and settling in next week. They are offering the new Bachelor in Health Science, coordinated by Prof Helen Keleher. For details, see http://www.med.monash.edu.au/bhs/.

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ASPREE launch 11 Feb 09

TheASPREE (ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly) research program had an internal launch for stakeholders and managers on 11 Feb. Stakeholders and collaborators in the main ASPREE study and sub-studies include the NHMRC, CSIRO, Victorian Cancer Agency, University of Melbourne, University of Tasmania, Australian National University, University of Western Australia, Menzies Research Institute, Ludwig Institute, Heart Foundation and the BakerIDI Heart and Diabetes Institute.

The two day launch covered ASPREE and sub-studies’ scientific and medical rationale, collaborative and funding arrangements, protocol, recruitment and data management procedures and timelines. In attendance were lead and guest investigators, data managers, research nurses and other research and administrative personnel.

It is a large study, projected to recruit between 12,500 and 19,000 participants across Tasmania, Victoria and the ACT at this stage.

See photo in SPHPM eNews pdf: L-R back row standing A/Prof Marc Budge (Principal Investigator, ENVISion) - guest investigator, Prof Elsdon Storey, Dr Trevor Lockett (Colorectal Cancer Theme Leader, CSIRO) - guest investigator, Prof Andrew Tonkin, Prof Mark Nelson, A/Prof Rory Wolfe, L-R seated A/Prof Chris Reid, Prof Colin Johnston, Prof John McNeil, Dr Robyn Woods.

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Successful Grant Applications

546248 NHMRC Capacity building grant: Prof Malcolm Sim, DEPM.

Prof Brian Oldenburg, DEPM group grants

• A controlled evaluation of the Australasian Peers for Progress Diabetes Program (PfP-DP) and its transferability to other countries Scheme: Peers for Progress – Connection for Better Living/Diabetes Funders: American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Foundation/Eli Lilly Foundation (Oldenburg, Dunbar, Reddy, Johnson, Audehm, deCourten, Wolfe, Carter Absetz, Zaini)  2009-2011   US $799,858.40
• MOOD-care $1.3 million over 2.5 years funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing (DOHA).

nhmrccommunications.createsend3.com/t/ViewEmail/r/616594AE48817C28/650A10A8E6AD9FA62540EF23F30FEDED

546272 NHMRC Program grant: Prof Henry Krum and A/Prof Chris Reid, DEPM. Prevention and treatment of chronic heart and kidney disease via epidemiological, pharmacological, device and cell based approaches. $5.39M over 2010-2014. See Monash write up 9/2/09at http://www.monash.edu.au/news/newsline/story/1413. See grant detail at

http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants/rounds/program/_files/Successful_Program_Grants_for_2010.pdf

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Awards, Promotions and Prizes

 The School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine warmly congratulates the following who were successful in the Academic Promotions 2008 exercise: 

 Senior Lecturers 

 Dr Baki Billah, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine 

 Associate Professors 

 Dr Wendy Brown, Centre for Obesity Research & Education 

 Dr Leanna Darvall, Department of Forensic Medicine 

 Dr Karin Leder, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine 

 Their promotions are effective from 1 January 2009. 

 Prof Jamie Cooper received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research 

  (Distinguished Research Career Award). 

 NHMRC Career Development Awards 2009 

 Dr Anita Wluka CDA Level 1 Clinical. Using good measurement principles to examine musculoskeletal disease and improve the evaluation of new diagnostic tests. $370,000 

 Prof Helena Teede, (pictured left) Director of Research at the Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health (MIHSR) and Head of Diabetes at Southern Health, CDA Level 2 Clinical. The prevention and optimal treatment of Type II Diabetes. $410,000 

 http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/fellows/funded/outcomes/_files/2009_cda.pdf 

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Visitors

Mary Redmayne is a Masters student at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Mary visited the Department for 5 weeks in January and February. Mary was working on the MoRPhEUS study of mobile phones in school children with Michael Abramson and Geza Benke.

Emily Williams visiting post doc from the University College of Londn, is visiting for 6 weeks with Brian Oldenburg and the IPHU team. She is working on the AusDiab database.

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New Staff

See photos in SPHPM eNews pdf.

New Honoraries

 Stuart Kinner- Honorary Senior Lecturer 

 Robert Oelrich- Honorary Senior Research Fellow 

 Peter Higgs- Honorary Research Fellow 

 Mark Stoove- Honorary Research Fellow 

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Dr Changhai Ding

 Dr Changhai Ding is a Senior Research Fellow supported by NHMRC Career Development Award (level 2, 2008-2011) working (20% FTE) in the Musculoskeletal Unit. His research interests are using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as an assessment technique to determine environmental (such as physical activity from childhood to adults) and genetic factors on knee osteoarthritis. He is also interested in exploring the roles of inflammatory cytokines and obesity-related hormones such as leptin in osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. Currently he is undertaking a NHMRC project to determine the impact of childhood physical activity, fitness and fatness on knee structural change 20 years later.   

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Space committee report - Martha Sinclair

 Although DEPM has only been located in its currently premises for slightly less than five years, another move is already looming on the horizon. Monash University will lease two of the four new floors currently being built on top of the existing Alfred Centre. These floors will be occupied by the DEPM component of the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, part of the Central School and part of the Department of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice. A Design Liaison Group comprising representatives of these tenants has been meeting with the architects and a Project Manager from Monash Facilities and Services Division for the last few months to discuss the fitout of the Monash space. 

 The Monash floors will include a 100-seat Lecture Theatre, Seminar and Tutorial rooms to replace teaching space in the old Monash Medical School building (which will be demolished after the relocation to the new building). The relocation date was initially planned for mid-2010. However, construction has been progressing more rapidly than anticipated (see photo, right), and therefore the move to the new premises may occur earlier in the year. Further updates will be given in future editions of this newsletter. 

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PhD news

 Recently started 

 Sara Ivory 26/01/09. Topic: Epidemiological risk prediction tools; methods and applications. Supervisor: Rory Wolfe 

 Bridget Pratt 23/02/09. Topic: Developing a just policy framework for the conduct on international health research. Supervisor: Bebe Loff 

 Stephanie Tanamas 17/02/09. Topic: The effect of angles on knee structure. Supervisor: Flavia Cicuttini 

 Submission 

 Dean MacKenzie submitted his thesis, “The development, comparison and application of brief psychological diagnostic and screening tests by statistical and machine learning methods”. 

 Passed 

 Sanjeewa Pradeep Wijayaratne has been awarded his PhD.  Thesis title: “Factors affecting patella cartilate volume and change in patella cartilage volumE in healthy populations”. 

 Jo O’Toole has been awarded her PhD.  Thesis “Exposure assessment for recycled and alternative water use” 

 Scholarships 

Lavinia Tran and Adrienne O’Neil have both received Heart Foundation Postgraduate Research Scholarships. Dr Biswadev Mitra, Judith Lowthian and Alisa Higgins have received NHMRC postgraduate research scholarships.

 Farewell 

 We farewell Charmian Bennett who came here to do a PhD on air pollution under the supervision of Michael Abramson, Shyamali Dharmage and John Gras. Charmian is taking up a position as lecturer in the National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health at the Australian National University in Canberra. 

 Award 

 Bridget Pratt received a Faculty postgraduate excellence award. 

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Conference visit report

Dr Bronwyn Fredericks was one of the invited speakers at the Public Forum titled - After the Apology: Perspectives from Indigenous Speakers. The Forum was hosted by the School of Historical Studies, The University of Melbourne on the 3 December, 2008, 6.30pm at the Charles Pearson Theatre, Carlton.

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Publications in January and February 2009

 Article 

 Brady SR, de Courten B, Reid CM, Cicuttini FM, de Courten MP. The role of traditional cardiovascular risk factors among patients with rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol. 2009 Jan; 36(1):34-40. 

Freak-Poli R, Chan A, Tucker G, Street J. Previous abortion and risk of pre-term birth; a population study. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2009 Jan;22(1):1-7.

 Fredericks, B. (2008). An exploration of the issues associated with the increasing Indigenous population in the greater Brisbane area. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. 11(4):3-13. ISSN-1440-5202. 

Fruhwald FM, Fahrleitner-Pammer A, Obermayer-Pietsch B, Goulder MA, Krum H, van Veldhuisen DJ, van de Ven L, Verkenne P, Pieske B, Meyer W, Willenheimer R. Neurohormones as predictors of outcome in an elderly heart failure population naïve of neurohormonal blockers results from the CIBIS III neurohormonal substudy. /Open Heart Failure Journal/ 2008;1:9-16.

Keating CL, Dixon JB, Moodie ML, Peeters A, Playfair J, O'Brien PE. Cost-efficacy of surgically induced weight loss for the management of type 2 diabetes: randomised controlled trial. Diabetes Care. 2009 Jan 26. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 19171726

Keating CL, Dixon JB, Moodie ML, Peeters A, Bulfone L, Magliano DJ, O'Brien PE. Cost-effectiveness of surgically induced weight loss for the management of type 2 diabetes: modelled lifetime analysis. Diabetes Care. 2009 Jan 26. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 19171720

Kent PM, Keating JL, Taylor N. Primary care clinicians use variable methods to assess acute non specific low back pain and usually focus on impairments. Manual Therapy 2009 Feb;14(1):88-100. Epub 2008 Mar 7.

Koech F, Ackland HM, Varma DK, Williamson O, Malham GM. Non-operative management of Type II odontoid fractures in the elderly. Spine. 2008;33,26:2881-2886.

Low, D. “Dissent, Conflict, Enquiry: Is Environmentalism Science Communication?” Proceedings of the 14th ANZSYS Australian New Zealand Systems Society Conference 1 Dec 2008. ISBN 978-0-7298-0668-8

Matheson MC, Walters EH, Simpson JA, Wharton CL, Ponsonby AL, Johns DP, Giles GG, Hopper JL, Abramson MJ, Dharmage SC. The relevance of the hygiene hypothesis to early versus late onset hay fever. Clinical and Experimental Allergy. 2009;39:370-378.

McIlroy DR, Myles PS, Phillips LE and Smith JA. Antifibrinolytics in cardiac surgical patients receiving aspirin: a systematic review and meta-analysis. British J Anaesthesia 2009; 102 (2): 168–78

O'Mullane PA, Mikocka-Walus AA, Gabbe BJ, Cameron PA. Incidence and outcomes of major trauma assaults: A population-based study in Victoria. Med J Aust. 2009 Feb 2;190(3):129-32.

Radiographic evaluation of foot osteoarthritis: sensitivity of radiographic variables and relationship to symptoms. Menz HB, Munteanu SE, Landorf KB, Zammit GV, Cicuttini FM. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2009 Mar;17(3):298-303.

Robin J, Graham HK, Baker R, Selber P, Simpson P, Symons S, Thomason P A classification system for hip disease in cerebral palsy. Dev Med Child Neurol 2009;51:183-192.

Soderberg S, Colquhoun D, Keech A, Yallop J, Barnes E, Pollicino C, Simes RJ, Tonkin A, Nestel P, for the LIPID Study Investigators. Leptin but not adiponectin is a predictor of recurrent cardiovascular events in men: results from the Long-term Intervention with Pravastatin in Ischaemic Disease (LIPID) Study. Int J Obes 2009; 33: 123-30

Stebbing, M. Avoiding the trust deficit: public engagement, values, the precautionary principle and the future of nanotechnology. Bioethical Inquiry (2009) 6:37–48

 Teichtahl AJ, Davies-Tuck ML, Wluka AE, Jones G, Cicuttini FM. Change in knee angle influences the rate of medial tibial cartilage volume loss in knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis & Cartilage. 2009 Jan; 17(1):8-11. 

 Teichtahl AJ, Wluka AE, Morris ME, Davis SR, Cicuttini FM. The associations between the dominant and nondominant peak external knee adductor moments during gait in healthy subjects: evidence for symmetry. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2009 Feb; 90: 320- 

 Urquhart DM, Bell R, Cicuttini FM, Cui J, Forbes A, Davis SR. Low back pain and disability in community-based women: prevalence and associated factors. Menopause. 2009 Jan-Feb; 16(1):24-9. 

Walls HL, Peeters A, Loff B, Crammond BR. Why Education and Choice Won't Solve the Obesity Problem. Am J Public Health. 2009 Jan 15. [Epub ahead of print]

Walls H, Peeters A, Reid CM, Liew D, McNeil JJ. Predicting the effectiveness of prevention: a role for epidemiological modeling. J Prim Prev 2008 Jul;29(4):295-305.

Williamson O, Gabbe B, Cameron P, Edwards E, Richardson M; Victorian Orthopaedic Trauma Outcome Registry Project Group.. Predictors of moderate or severe pain 6 months after orthopaedic injury. J Orthop Trauma 2009 Feb;23(2):139-44.

Zimmet H, Krum H. Using adult stem cells to treat heart failure – fact or fiction? Heart, Lung and Circulation 2008;17S:S48-S54.

 Letter 

Lowe A, Abramson M, Dharmage S, Allen K. "Paracetamol as a risk factor for allergic disorders [Correspondence]".  The Lancet, 2009, Jan 10; 373: 120

 Chapter 

 Fredericks, B. and Pearce, L. (2008). Privileging the Voices of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community-Controlled Health Service Sector. In A. Gunstone (Ed.) History, Politics and Knowledge: Essays in Australian Indigenous Studies. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. pp.32-48. ISBN 9781921509 056. 

 Report 

Robert Hall is part of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE). SAGE met 4-6 Nov 2008 and the conclusions and recommendations of the group were published in the WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) 9 Jan 2009. Link to the report : www.who.int/immunization/newsroom/sage_november_2008/en/index.html

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In the Media

Prof Peter Cameron, DEPM, radio interview about an apparent decrease in the number of patients going to major trauma services with serious head injuries. He suggests this is mostly related to the Road Traffic Group and it is good news for the TAC. 3AW (Melbourne), Afternoons, 22/12/2008 01:26PM.

MonCOEH Gulf War veterans study cited in “Hopes raised after US recognises gulf war syndrome”, Sydney Morning Herald, 15/01/09, p.9 www.smh.com.au/news/national/us-recognises-gulf-war-syndrome/2009/01/14/1231608794652.html

Prof Stephen Cordner, Director, VIFM, on the difficulty of identifying human remains from the 2009 Victorian bushfires.

10/2/09 Daily Telegraph http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25034824-5005941,00.html

10/2/09 ABC News http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/10/2487397.htm

10/2/09 Lateline, ABC TV http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2008/s2487887.htm

10/2/09 Sunshine Coast Daily http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2009/feb/10/victorian-bushfire-death-toll-now-173/

10/2/09 Foxnews.com http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,490589,00.html

10/2/09 Weekly Times http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2009/02/10/51631_latest-news.html

11/2/09 The Australian http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25038268-5018722,00.html

11/2/09 Canberra Times http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/national/national/general/shattered-state-steels-to-rebuild/1430855.aspx?storypage=3

11/2/09 The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/world/asia/11australia.html?_r=2&hp

14/02/09 The Australian, http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25052168-5018722,00.html.

Prof Peter Cameron, DEPM, on the work by the Alfred staff with the bushfire victims. Article: ‘Hope and healing’ by Jill Stark, The Age, 15/02/09.

Dr David Newman, Head, Aviation Medicine Unit, DEPM interviewed about deep vein thrombosis can occur in economy class or business class when flying. 24/02/09 ABC Radio 720 Perth

Emeritus Professor Paul O'Brien, CORE, interviewed about gastric band surgery, explaining that for the lap band to work it requires a healthy lifestyle. Channel 9 (Melbourne) 25/02/09 Channel 9 TV ‘Today’.

Emeritus Professor Paul O'Brien, CORE, and Associate Professor John Dixon of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences discuss research that has found that lapband surgery is an effective and economical way of managing type-two diabetes. 25/02/09 4BC (Brisbane), 2CC (Canberra), HO FM (Hobart), 5AA (Adelaide), 2UE (Sydney), 3AW (Melbourne), 6PR (Perth), Curtin FM (Perth), 6PR (Perth), Channel 9 (Melbourne), Channel 9 (Sydney)

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Unit Newsletters

 The Australian Institute of Health Policy Studies (AIHPS) produces an online bi-monthly e-update and can be subscribed to at the AIHPS website www.aihps.org. Dec 2008 issue available at http://healthpolicystudies.org.au/content/view/138/195/. The next issue will be released in Feb 2009. AIHPS also provides a web based service scanning state, national and international news sources for health policy issues: http://healthpolicystudies.org.au/content/view/63/26/. 

The NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Patient Safety (CRE-PS) publishes the Australian Patient Safety Bulletin. To subscribe to the newsletter, go to http://www.crepatientsafety.org.au/subscribe.html.

 The Australian Centre for Human Health Risk Assessment (ACHHRA) makes regular surveys of the world media for stories about the health impacts of environmental stressors such as drugs and chemicals. These digests are posted on the shared drive at V:\epm\Department\JournalUpdates\env health news. 

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Marketing and communication news

Monash Image Library is a developing resource. It has over 1200 photographs available for publications and promotional material. http://www.imagelibrary.monash.edu.au/Standard/Login2.jsp

Med Faculty templates for .Powerpoint presentations (both white and blue backgrounds) can be downloaded from: www.adm.monash.edu.au/advancement/marketing/powerpoint/

TV news reports:          The database TVNews provides Monash staff and students online access through the Monash Library Databases and Electronic Resources Page to full video of all news and current affairs broadcast on Australian free to air television. TVNews can be used to find news items broadcast on a particular date or on a particular program, and items range from 30 second video clips to one hour documentaries. Detailed synopses and abstracts of news items are provided. The items can also be downloaded. TVNews link: www.lib.monash.edu.au/databases/2345643.html. [Ed: thanks to Martha Sinclair to bringing this to my attention]

Event notification checklist: V:\epm\Department\Communications\Marketing\Advertising avenues

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Survey on environmentally friendly policies for DEPM

 From Rosanne Freak-Poli: Thank-you to all the suggestions that I received for environmental friendly policy in DEPM. From these suggestions I have compiled a questionnaire as it is important that everyone has the opportunity expresses their views before changes are made: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=C_2be0VfcJXJcFY5HJtARRNg_3d_3d 

 The survey covers options for soft copy documentation, products purchased at DEPM, waste management, computers and lighting. So far 31 employees have completed the survey and some of the answers are very interesting. If you have any further comments regarding environmental issues within the DEPM please email Rosanne.Freak-Poli@med.monash.edu.au 

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Personal news

 Sad news: 

 Jessika Scott Willis's sister sent Colin Fee an email on Dec. 20. "I am sorry to have to tell you that my sister, Jessika Scott Willis [pictured, right], died on 17 December 2008 as a result of the recurrence of her lymphoma. I know she worked in your department or related activities for many years. She came back to England in May and was comparatively well, enjoying doing the rounds of friends and family and settling first in Southsea near Portsmouth, then in Burbage, Leicestershire where, unfortunately she spent very little time before going to The Royal Infirmary Leicester. Jessika underwent more chemotherapy but her breathing became increasingly compromised. She was only 53 years of age." Her funeral was on Dec 23.

Michael Abramson gives tribute: “I am particularly sorry to learn of Jessika's death. She was a valued member of my research group and made an essential contribution to our study of asthma deaths. She also completed an MPH at Monash and will be missed by many of her fellow students.”

 Glad news: 

Congratulations on the engagement of two couples in DEPM: Molly Bond and David Khuu, and Basia Duig and Elias.

Dr Wei Shi worked in DEPM on a WHO fellowship in 2003. Now she is working as a post doctoral associate in the Department of Radiation Oncology in Washington University School of Medicine in USA. She recently published a paper "Disassembly of MDC1 foci is controlled by ubiquitin-proteasome-dependent degradation" in J Biol Chem [2008; 283(46):31608-16]. She sends her appreciation and greeting to Prof McNeil through email. She also wishes all the people in DEPM a nice Christmas holiday and happy new year. [received 24/12/08] Pictured left, with husband and child.

Dr Colin Wood, Senior Research Fellow in the Clinical Informatics and Data Management Centre, is leaving for a 2 year trip around Australia, New Zealand and South America.

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2009 Short Courses

Bookmark & browse our web page www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/shortcrs/ or contact shortcourses.depm@med.monash.edu.aufor further information.

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SPHPM seminar program

DEPM seminars are held in the DEPM seminar room on Wednesdays from 12-1 pm unless otherwise noted. A reminder will go out about DEPM seminars on the morning of the day they are to be given. The seminar program is at http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/events/. The weekly AMREP seminar listings are emailed by Liana Friedman to all Alfred based staff. Various other seminars which involve DEPM people are also listed.

2009 PhD presentations are timetabled, Wednesdays 1-3 pm, in the DEPM seminar room.

• CC=Confirmation of Candidature

See seminar webpage at http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/events/

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Career opportunities in Public Health

New research fellowships in clinical & public health sciences in SPHPM. We are looking for people with either strong backgrounds in mathematics and statistics, or recently completed doctorates in biological sciences. See http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/depmresearchstaff-eoi.pdf

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Application deadlines

Liz Douglas maintains an updated, detailed list of deadlines for funding opportunities and abstract submissions at V\epm\temp\Liz. An abbreviated list is given below. If you do not have access to the V drive email: Elizabeth.Douglas@med.monash.edu.au. In addition, see:

Monash University Research Office maintains a Funding Opportunities database, accessible with authcate details, at http://www.monash.edu.au/research/academics/funding/information/calendar-int/fodder.html.

James Cook University lists a wide selection of granting schemes and their deadlines, at http://www.jcu.edu.au/office/research_office/funding/external/deadlines.html

Summary from V drive list at V\epm\temp\Liz

3 Mar NHMRC Australia Fellowships (Expression of Interest) www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants/apply/career/index.htm

5 Mar Jack Brockhoff Foundation http://www.brockhoff.info/guidelines.htm

17 Mar NHMRC Project Grants (including Heart Foundation Grants-in-Aid) www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants/apply/projects/index.htm

17 Mar Cancer Australia Priority-driven Collaborative Cancer Research Scheme www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants/apply/projects/index.htm

17 Mar Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme 2009  http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/?fuseaction=UserSite.PeopleDetailsCallPage&call_id=174

17 Mar DIISR International Strategic Linkages Program - 2009 IRSES Round

20 Mar NHMRC – Career Development Awards  http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants/apply/cda/index.htm

20 Mar The Research Network in Ageing Well Population and Research Strategies Theme-International Travel Bursaries Queries to Mark Petricevic-02 6125 1456 ; Mark.Petricevic@anu.edu.au

20 Mar The Research Network in Ageing Well Population and Research Strategies Theme-International Travel Bursaries http://www.ageingwell.edu.au Mark.Petricevic@anu.edu.au

20 Mar Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Programme  – 11th Funding Round www.crc.gov.au/Information/default.aspx

28 Mar National Heart Foundation – Travel Grants Round Two http://www.heartfoundation.org.au/Travel_Grants.htm

3 Apr   Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships (Biomedical, Clinical, Public Health) http://www.heartfoundation.org.au/Professional_Information/Research/Available_Funding/Postdoctoral_Fellowships/Pages/default.aspx

5 Apr American Australian Association (AAA) Australia to USA Fellowships www.americanaustralian.org/australian_to_usa_apps/

6 Apr National Heart Foundation – Travel Grants Round Two www.heartfoundation.org.au/Travel_Grants.htm

20 Apr Australasian Epidemiological Association (AEA) Annual Scientific Meeting abstracts due. www.aea.asn.au.

20 Apr Schering (Ernst) Foundation / Schering Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellowships http://www.scholarshipnet.info/postgraduate/germany-doctoral-fellowships-from-ernst-schering-foundation/

31 May Strategic Initiatives relating to the International Portfolio Crystal.Chatterton@adm.monash.edu.au https://secure.monash.edu/odvci/index.php/International_Strategic_Initiatives_2009

5 Jun   Abstracts due: AHA Scientific Sessions 14-18 Nov http://scientificsessions.americanheart.org/portal/scientificsessions/ss/seeyounextyear2009

10 Jun International Strategic Initiatives Fund 2009 https://secure.monash.edu/odvci/index.php/International_Strategic_Initiatives_2009

29 Jul  National Heart Foundation – Travel Grants Round Three http://www.heartfoundation.org.au/Travel_Grants.htm

7 Aug National Heart Foundation – Travel Grants Round Three www.heartfoundation.org.au/Travel_Grants.htm

18 Aug CASS Foundation Limited Postdoctoral Travel Grants

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Items for the DEPM News are due The DEPM eNews is issued monthly, in pdf format with images. Each month's feature article on research can be accessed either through the pdf or its own link below..

Please send any comments and/or items for inclusion in future issues to: depmnews@med.monash.edu.au