Our own Professor Don Nutbeam recently shared his insights into knowledge translation as keynote speaker at a major health promotion conference in Galway, Ireland. He told the conference we needed to build evidence derived from a much richer base of knowledge and experience, so that we get the right answers to the right policy questions.

Registrations are now open for this annual meeting on 6 September, which will showcase the latest 45 and Up Study research with the theme Data, evidence and decision making for a better future. Health perfomance reporting expert Dr Diane Watson will deliver the keynote address on 'What makes evidence and data useful for policy and action?'.

In the latest in this series of articles showcasing the work of our Member organisations, we meet Professor Kypros Kypri (pictured, right), from the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Newcastle, who discusses the role his research played in alcohol regulation policy in Australia. 

Catch up with headline public health and policy news via our regular fortnightly Health Wrap, published on the health blog Croakey. In our most recent wrap, we looked at the post-election health policy landscape, developments in the fight against deadly pathogens, Indigenous health and justice news, and more.

There are high levels of psychological distress among parents and carers of Aboriginal children according to the latest findings from SEARCH - the Study of Environment on Aboriginal Resilience and Child Health. This active partnership between Aboriginal community controlled health services and researchers is producing much-needed data to guide policy and improved services for Aboriginal people.

Sax researchers shared new insights into improving the dialogue between researchers and decision makers at a recent conference in Sydney. Gai Moore and Abby Haynes were among those presenting their findings at the Emerging Health Policy Research Conference, and discussed new work on facilitating the knowledge translation process.

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