UNSW Centre for Primary Health Care & Equity
Suzan Mehmet
Like other universities, our Research Capacity Building Program is now well established. This has a number of elements.
Our Primary Health Care Research Network PHReNet caters to the ‘bottom up' needs of our GP and primary health care members through mentoring and training for their own research interests. This includes introductory research training workshops, practical sessions, writing groups and an evidence based practice journal club for GPs and GP registrars. We also have a popular research seminar series, in conjunction with the Institute of General Practice Education .
PHReNet has 365 members in Sydney (south, south west and east), Illawarra Shoalhaven and Riverina and continues to grow, as did the number of papers and presentations (six posters and three papers at the recent GP & PHC Research Conference). Della Maneze and Anau Speizer, presented their work at the GP & PHC Research Conference in Perth and have their descriptive study of kava use among Tongan men in Macarthur accepted for publication by the Australian New Zealand Journal of Public Health.
PHReNet-GP is a practice based research network, launched in October 2007. It supports and coordinates the participation of GPs in high quality, priority driven primary health care research. It streamlines researchers' approaches to practices and enables GPs and practice staff to become more involved in CPHCE research, particularly in chronic disease prevention and management and primary health care system development. PHReNet-GP currently has 50 GP members and represents a growing partnership between general practitioners and CPHCE researchers.
Our Researcher Development Program continues to attract and develop new researchers. The 2008 RDPs, Sharon Ganzer and Anna Jones have joined CPHCE. Past RDPs are doing well: Anne Harley (2007) is completing her placement, Shona Dutton (2007) is currently completing a research masters and Sue Kirby (2006) is one year into a PhD at UNSW.
The research networks will develop further in 2008 with support from the UNSW RCBI staff: Professor Nick Zwar (program director), Melanie Marshall (UNSW coordinator, replacing Vanessa Traynor), Dr Sarah Dennis (senior research fellow), Suzan Mehmet (administrator / coordinator of both networks) and Pippa Burns (Illawarra and Shoalhaven project officer co-located at the Illawarra Division of General Practice).
Suzan Mehmet
Network administrator/coordinator
E suzan.mehmet@sswahs.nsw.gov.au
or s.mehmet@unsw.edu.au
Web: www.cphce.unsw.edu.au/
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