Adults can support safe use of alcohol
Schoolies festivals are a good time to discuss the risks of excessive drug and alcohol use with teenage children, a Flinders child welfare expert says.
Schoolies festivals are a good time to discuss the risks of excessive drug and alcohol use with teenage children, a Flinders child welfare expert says.
In spite of “challenging times for policy and practice that seeks to improve population health and reduce health inequalities”, Professor Fran Baum’s The New Public Health offers some optimism for the future, said Lancaster University’s Professor Jennie Popay today.
Adelaide astronaut Andy Thomas trained with the best in Russia, and among them were this year’s Flinders Investigator Lecture presenters Sergey Treshcheov and Alex Akulov.
Flinders University’s new Tonsley facility has been recognised as the best building of its type in Australia by the Master Builders Association of Australia.
The majority of parents wouldn’t physically allow a stranger unsupervised access to their kids, yet most Australian children are exposed to the influence of strangers every day through mass media.
Flinders researcher Melanie Fuller’s work in improving the efficiency of gene therapy in treating Cystic Fibrosis through nanotechnology has been recognised with a place in the finals of this year’s ‘Winnovation Awards’.
Failed, traumatised, stigmatised and often left feeling worse off than when they started. That’s the reality faced by some mental health patients under Community Treatment Orders, according to Flinders research.
The Swedish Ambassador to Australia, Pär Ahlberger, has visited Flinders University’s new Tonsley facility during his first trip to Adelaide.
Dementia, bowel cancer and glaucoma are among diseases to be addressed by researchers at Flinders with National Health and Medical Research Council funding of nearly $5.1 million.