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MOHMQuit: ten years of collaboration to support smoke-free pregnancies
For more than a decade, UCRH academics working in rural health research have collaborated with maternity services across NSW to address one of the most persistent and complex challenges in antenatal care: supporting pregnant women to quit smoking. As the MOHMQuit – Midwives and Obstetricians Helping Mothers to Quit Smoking
MOHMQuit: ten years of collaboration to support smoke-free pregnancies
For more than a decade, UCRH academics working in rural health research have collaborated with maternity services across NSW to address one of the most persistent and complex challenges in antenatal care: supporting pregnant women to quit smoking. As the MOHMQuit – Midwives and Obstetricians Helping Mothers to Quit Smoking
MOHMQuit: ten years of collaboration to support smoke-free pregnancies
For more than a decade, UCRH academics working in rural health research have collaborated with maternity services across NSW to address one of the most persistent and complex challenges in
Local knowledge saves lives
Community-led responses are a critical part of rural health research, especially as climate disasters become more frequent and severe. A new journal article co-authored by UCRH researchers Jo Longman, Emma
Why local networks matter after disasters
Rural health research often focuses on services and systems, but communities themselves play a huge role in how people respond and recover after disasters. A new journal article co-authored by
Psychosocial support to quit smoking
New rural health research involving UCRH’s Professor Megan Passey from the University Centre for Rural Health has contributed to an important update on how best to support women to stop
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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 years of occupational therapy with dis/abled children in different contexts. Dr Gerlach is Associate Director of the School of Child
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 their final year for the highest performance and best MD project. Bradley’s project, completed while on placement with us, focused
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 and Regional Health yesterday. Their appearance was part of the second public hearing for the inquiry into regional, rural and
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 Roundtable at Parliament House. Hosted by the The Lowitja Institute (photo by Lowitja) the roundtable provided an opportunity to canvass
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 privilege of attending ACRRM and RDAA’s Rural Medicine Australia conference (RMA) as a research presenter. When I first experienced RMA
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 Universities of Wollongong, Western Sydney and Sydney to provide placements for long stay medical students in addition to our shorter
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 focus on healthy ageing and had a lot of fun with the CWA members. They made protein balls, danced the
Researchers from UCRH have published a piece in The Conversation about how to best prepare for the upcoming bushfire season. And after three wet years, and the plant growth that comes with it, there’s fuel to burn. With the prospect of catastrophic bushfire comes smoke. This not only affects people
We are so proud of our Griffith University Nutrition and Dietetics students, Samantha and Simon, who have just finished their community and public health placement at Mummulgum Public School. They did an amazing job as community dietitians, working with the school to promote healthy breakfast habits among the students. They
Congratulations to Frances Barraclough, a UCRH staff member, on being appointed as the Chair for the Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care Education Subcommittee. Frances is a senior lecturer who leads the development and implementation of an interprofessional education program (IPL) supporting undergraduate and postgraduate students from up to 15
Tracey Piccoli, a member of our Aboriginal Health team, has shared a report on behalf of the staff group who represented UCRH at the Healing our Spirit Worldwide Gathering. The Gathering – a conference – was held in Vancouver, Canada, in September on the unceded and ancestral territory of the
Last week we were very happy to celebrate the great achievement of the fourth year University of Sydney medical students (nearly) completing their final teaching year. We also took the opportunity to acknowledge the important contribution of our clinical supervisors through our annual UCRH Teaching Awards. Thank you to the
