Frith Rayner - Program Coordinator: Communications and Policy Liaison, APHCRI
Two international Visiting Fellows came to the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) in January and February to launch a busy year of activity for the Institute in 2006.
Professor Nicholas Mays, Professor of Health Policy at the London School of Tropical Medicine spent three days at APHCRI in January. During his time at the Institute Professor Mays gave a seminar on systematic review and convened a workshop for Stream Four research teams.
Professor Mays is the editor of the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, which published a paper that has been key to informing the research approach taken in Stream Four. The workshop was an opportunity for research teams to discuss systematic review and it's application with a leader in this aspect of research.
A week later Professor Chris Dowrick, Professor of Primary Medical Care in the University of Liverpool, spent a day with APHCRI, giving a seminar on how Australia could implement its chronic disease strategy.
Professor Dowrick, who is editor of the journal Chronic Illness said the strategy, needed committed funding to be successful.
However, he said the document had its "heart in the right place" and had the potential to benefit patients. The Australian Health Ministers' Conference ratified Australia's chronic disease strategy in late 2005.
Professor Dowrick also attended the launch of RE-order, a Stream Three project looking at the treatment of depression in a general practice setting. Professor Dowrick is a member of the investigation team.
APHCRI is now looking forward to the arrival of Professor Larry Green, M.D, in July. Professor Green is Senior Scholar in Residence at The Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care, in Washington, DC. Professor Green will be an APHCRI-sponsored keynote speaker at the GP & PHC Research Conference in Perth and will also present a seminar in Canberra as part of that trip.
For further information contact:
Frith Rayner
Ph: 02 6125 2026
E: frith.rayner@anu.edu.au
Web: http:// www.anu.edu.au/aphcri
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