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PHCRED Strategy: APHCRI Wrap

A comprehensive examination of Australian primary health care workforce issues will be published by the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) at the end of 2007.

This group of systematic reviews, along with seven projects building on work from Streams One, Three and Four rounds off a successful year for the Institute.

The year has been a busy one for the Institute. APHCRI commissioned two new research streams, held workshops for Stream Six, hosted three Visiting Fellows and was a major sponsor of the GP & PHC Research Conference as just some of its research, capacity building and translation activities.

One of the new research streams was the APHCRI Linkage and Exchange Travelling Fellowships, which encourage Spoke groups to engage with overseas policy and research institutions to develop their work. The fellowships were taken up by researchers involved in Stream Four and began in September. They will report back to APHCRI and the Department of Health and Ageing in April next year.

Another new initiative was with a sister Institute, the Robert Graham Center in Washington DC, offering a young researcher the opportunity to travel to the United States and work on a project of mutual interest to APHCRI and the Robert Graham Center. The report on this first Visiting Fellowship will be published in December.

Work has continued on APHCRI's long-term research projects in Stream Three, which will complete in July 2008. Investigators on these projects presented their early research results to the Department of Health and Ageing in November, along with Stream Five Spokes. A large group of department policy advisers attended the presentation and there were a number of questions and links with various parts of the department established.

The Institute looks forward to further research development and results in 2008.

For more information contact:
Frith Rayner
Program Coordinator: Communications and Policy Liaison
Ph: 02 6125 2026
Web : www.anu.edu.au/aphcri

Director, Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute

An exciting opportunity has become available and applications are invited for the position of Director of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, ANU College of Medicine and Heath Sciences, The Australian National University.

For more information please follow this link <info.anu.edu.au/hr/Jobs/Academic_Positions/_PDF/APH4481.pdf>

Applications close 1 February 2008.