Author: UCRH

Helping pregnant women quit smoking

Researchers on the MOHMQuit project have passed a major milestone in their work to help midwives, obstetricians and Aboriginal health workers support pregnant women to quit smoking. After 15 months

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Dr Alison Gerlach

Dr Alison Gerlach visits UCRH

We recently had the pleasure of welcoming Dr Alison Gerlach to our Centre. Dr Gerlach is an expert in inclusive and responsive early childhood practices whose work draws on many

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Med student takes the prize

Congratulations to University of Sydney MD student Bradley Shea who was recently awarded the Dean’s Prize for Research in Public Health. The award is given to a student enrolled in

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NSW Parliament hears a rural perspective

UCRH Director, Professor Vicki Flood and Academic Co-ordinator (General Practice and Community), Dr Christine Ahern, were pleased to appear before the NSW Parliaments Legislative Assembly Select Committee on Remote, Rural

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UCRH presence at Parliament House

We were proud to see leading UCRH researcher Associate Professor Veronica Matthews speaking with national leaders as part of the Climate Change and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Ministerial

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Rural Medicine Australia Conference

Thanks to Lucinda Colbert, one of our fabulous Western Sydney University medical students, for sharing her perspective on the recent Rural Medicine Australia Conference. This October I had the absolute

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NCMEC leaders come together

Last week the annual North Coast Medical Education Collaboration face-to-face meeting took place at Invercauld House, Goonellabah. Since 2007 we have delivered the North Coast Medical Education Collaboration between the

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Bonalbo CWA Wellness Day

What a wonderful day for some of our allied health students and the Old Bonalbo Country Women’s Association (CWA) of NSW! The students recently ran a wellness day with a

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