Health Research Institute
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Based at the University of Canberra, the Health Research Institute delivers leading research to support a healthier future for Canberra, Australia & the world
Australian Capital Territory
Joined April 2020
2024 HEAL Innovation Fund is now open! If you have a solution-focused project idea focusing on climate, environment and health priorities, this opportunity may be for you! 💰AUD$20,000-AUD$50,000 per project Applications close: 16th September 12 noon AEST https://t.co/TGVl650oSs
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How baby-friendly are Australian hospitals when it comes to breastfeeding? UC's @DrNBagheri joins the conversation on @abcnews. @uc_hri #UniCBR 👂
abc.net.au
Researchers have for the first time mapped which Australian hospitals support breastfeeding according to international standards.
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Job opportunity: HEAL Communications & Knowledge Exchange Coordinator. Join the fast growing HEAL Global Research Centre at the University of Canberra, and drive impactful health, climate and environmental research forward! Apply here (closing 4 August): https://t.co/Qr2hYU1hO9
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Job opportunity: HEAL Senior Centre Coordinator. Join the fast growing HEAL Global Research Centre at the University of Canberra, and drive impactful health, climate and environmental research forward! Apply here (closing on 4 August): https://t.co/3L1GEi5D22
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The final video of EMPOWER is ready! https://t.co/FgQmE4Me19 You can watch it, together with a short version and the pills, in the platform's website together with our project's Youtube channel
empower-project.eu
The European platform to Promote Wellbeing and Health in the workplace is a European project to reduce the impact of mental health problems at the workplace.
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What a great way to spend Friday afternoon listening to the amazing research being done by our @UCFacultyHealth @UCSciTech HDR students in the faculty #3MT heats. Big congrats to our winners & runner-ups 👏👏👏 Best of luck for the @UniCanberra final!!! @FionaDyer
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HEAL Future Leader School, 2024 at @UniCanberra. Cheers HEAL National Research Network & all HEALers with my focus on Food, Soils & Water Security💐🏆👏.
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Delighted to present the HEAL Global Research Centre at the Canberra Health Annual Research Meeting (CHARM 2024). Looking forward to opportunities for research collaboration on #climate change, #sustainability and local #health services. @ACTHealth @ACT_CHS @uc_hri @HEALenviron
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In the Global Impact Analytics Framework the first phase is to develop it and design it and get it all happening https://t.co/KlYpcZbWPJ And then the second phase is the early implementation, or in the GIAF we call that maturity @UniCanberra
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Empower involves initiating and developing the website and the app, and then implementing it in the real world https://t.co/KlYpcZcuFh The Global Impact Analytics Framework actually goes across two domains In the GF we call that the initiation and preparation phase @UniCanberra
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We face a triple planetary crisis – climate change, environmental pollution & biodiversity loss – posing a huge challenge to global health On #WorldEnvironmentDay and every day the @nhmrc HEAL National Research Network builds resilience to environmental change for better health
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Lovely to be in Bengaluru at @iphindia with our students from @UniCanberra to learn about #cross-cultural health and wellbeing for First Nations communities in Karnataka @UCFacultyHealth @prashanthns @AusCGBengaluru @uc_hri @TanyaLawlis
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30 indicators have been selected for measuring and monitoring climate change and environmental health in Australia. Read more in the newly released reporting framework on climate change and health indicators by @aihw
Today's report explores the 8 topics used to measure and monitor how climate change and the environment impact health in Australia. 🌱☀️ To learn more about the methodology behind the framework, see Climate change and environmental health indicators https://t.co/tI9nLbfsaO
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HEAL Future Leaders visit to @Ginninderry, an innovative & sustainable community that is inspiring a new way of living in Ngunnawal country (ACT/NSW). Thoroughly enjoyable site visit, nature walk through native grassland and views from Shepherds Lookout to Murrumbidgee River🌳🦘
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The 1st HEAL Future Leaders School on climate, environment & health is ongoing! An intensive one-week program of lectures, case studies, site visits & networking for 36 early career researchers and 12 guest speakers from across Australia hosted at University of Canberra @uc_hri
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HEAL Future Leaders School and @uc_hri were privileged to host our inspiring Indigenous leaders and colleagues Francis Nona, Veronica Matthews, Danielle Cameron, Caroline Deen and Joanne Taylor (here with HEAL Director @SotirisVard)
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🔎Looking for a #PhysicalActivity self-report measure to use in #CardiacRehabilitation??? 💡The Active Australia Survey may be for you! Find out more in our paper here 👇👇👇 https://t.co/Jh6lyUaper
@uc_hri @ACRA_ACRA @thecsanz @heartfoundation @ASPActivity
jsams.org
To examine the long-term validity of the Active Australia Survey in a cardiac rehabilitation population using accelerometry as the reference measure.
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Wood heater smoke contains many pollutants that are harmful to human health, such as particulates, nitrogen oxides & carbon monoxide. HEAL researchers estimated the health impact of wood heaters in ACT to be 11-63 avoidable deaths each year. Watch video:
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Following on from my article about Mental Health Commissions, here https://t.co/7PWkJTf0P0, here is another, written with Prof Alan Rosen, about the way forward for commissions: https://t.co/KkumU9ppiY
@Mark_Butler_MP @Qld_MHC @NSWMHC @ian_hickie @NMHC
croakey.org
Introduction by Croakey: Many concerns and questions have been raised about Australia’s mental health commissions, the constraints under which they
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Nice to see the @canberratimes article on the launch of our new HEAL Global Research Centre on Healthy Environments and Lives at @UniCanberra @uc_hri. Delighted to lead such a great interdisciplinary team. We are officially open for business!🌏 https://t.co/Z70DHzHdg1
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