SAX INSTITUTE

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Monthly e-newsletter. February 2019

How do we ensure health policies are informed by evidence?

A landmark study led by the Sax Institute has revealed a new way forward in helping health policy agencies build their capacity to use research evidence. The SPIRIT (Supporting Policy In health with Research: an Intervention Trial) study, led by Dr Anna Williamson, Senior Research Fellow...

training

Building partnerships for policy-relevant research

We’ll be continuing our training events program in early March with a course aimed at early career researchers. The three-day course offers researchers a practical guide to building successful partnerships with policy makers, to give their research the best chance of making an impact on ...

45 and up study

How the 45 and Up Study can improve cancer outcomes

The Sax Institute’s 45 and Up Study is set to play a major role in improving cancer outcomes in Australia, experts heard at a forum in Sydney led by internationally renowned cancer epidemiologist Professor Dame Valerie Beral. Held at the Parliament of New South Wales on...

event coverage

Are women dying unnecessarily of heart disease?

Some of Australia’s leading experts on heart health met at a roundtable in Sydney in December 2018 to discuss worrying findings that women with heart disease may get poorer treatment and have worse outcomes, compared with men. Jointly organised by the Sax Institute, the Heart Foundation...

research

Suicide prevention grant for the Sax Institute

An international research collaboration which includes the Sax Institute’s Decision Analytics team has been awarded a substantial grant from the National Suicide Prevention Research Fund (managed by Suicide Prevention Australia) to look at the relationship between social media and suicide clusters. Relatively little work has been...

prevention works

Podcasts: a new tool for public health?

The inexorable rise of the podcast in the media landscape is such that you can now even listen to a podcast on the rise of podcasting if you want. Popular interest in the audio format has been fuelled in particular by ‘true crime’ podcasts, such as...

The australian prevention partnership centre

Four new projects for the Prevention Centre

Last July The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, administered by the Sax Institute, secured funding totalling $15 million to see it through to 2023. This great result marks a new phase in the life of the Prevention Centre and has already provided funds for the launch of...

public health research and practice

NDIS puts mental health support providers under pressure

Australia’s psychosocial support services are facing significant challenges thanks to funding changes brought in with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), says a senior mental health researcher. In a new paper in Public Health & Research Practice, a peer-reviewed journal published by the Sax Institute, Dr...

training

Webinars: working with MBS and PBS data

This March, the Sax Institute is debuting a series of webinars on working with data from the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule (PBS). It comprises three weekly two-hour sessions which provide an introduction to datasets, advice on dealing with their specific characteristics and examples of how they can be used.
The webinars are aimed at researchers, policy makers and health service/program planning teams.