Associated Events WORKSHOP 1 This workshop will provide supervisors with the knowledge and skills to provide high quality supervision to trainees enrolled in the AFPHM training program. Participants will be made aware of their responsibilities as a supervisor as well as the changes to the AFPHM education program including the new assessment tools. As such it is equally applicable to brand new supervisors as well as those looking to consolidate their learning in the revamped education program. Speakers: Various WORKSHOP 2 This workshop will bring together national and state-level speakers with expertise across policy, practice and research to identify key population health issues and challenges that must be addressed to create stronger foundations for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. Professor Alex Brown, the incoming Indigenous Health Team Leader for the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, will provide the keynote address. An expert panel will lead a discussion about improving government and Aboriginal community-controlled health systems and research quality to inform policy and practice. The workshop is about issues and solutions. Share your stories and generate recommendations for action. Speakers: Professor Alex Brown and other speakers TBC WORKSHOP 3 This symposium will explore current policy and clinical responses to injecting drug use and infectious disease in prisoners and ex-prisoners, both in Australia and internationally. It will explore how these policies and practices impact on health, in the context of available evidence. A series of brief, focussed presentations by leading researchers, policy makers and clinicians will be followed by facilitated discussion of current and potential responses to injecting drug use and infectious disease care and prevention among prisoners and ex-prisoners. Speakers: Professor Frederick Altice, Professor Michael Levy, Professor Tony Butler, Professor Margaret Hellard and Assoc Prof Stuart Kinner WORKSHOP 4 This presentation will outline some emergent thinking internationally that is part of a movement focussed on transforming current systems of governance and economics into structures and institutions that support ecological sustainability and recognise limits to growth on a finite planet. The aim of the presentation will be to expose public health practitioners to the transformation movement in Australia and internationally, to facilitate the establishment of links between Australian organisations and individuals engaged in this agenda and the public health community, and to encourage public health practitioners to adopt a systems approach to health advocacy, policy, research and service development. Speakers: Peter Tait, Fiona Armstrong and Bob Douglas WORKSHOP 5 Funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing and implemented by the Melbourne School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne, the Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health will address current gaps in knowledge on the health of Australian males, who continue to have shorter life expectancies and poorer health outcomes than Australian women. The workshop will comprise a presentation outlining the study background, methodology, and instrument content, data linkage and mechanisms for accessing study data. The presentation will be followed by an interactive forum where attendees can seek specific information on the study. Speakers: Professor Jane Pirkis and Professor Dallas English WORKSHOP 6 With the growing availability of large healthcare databases, non-experimental studies of prescription medications are becoming increasingly common. However, appropriate design and analysis of such studies can be challenging. In this workshop we provide an intensive introduction to the field of pharmacoepidemiology. We review the data used in pharmacoepidemiology and the central threats to validity of studies medications, including the healthy user bias, immortal person time bias, and various types of confounding bias. We then discuss approaches to mitigate these biases through design and analysis. The workshop will cover the comparative new user design, self-controlled designs, propensity score methods, and instrumental variable approaches. We will also discuss some additional topics in the field, including studies of medication adherence, disparities, and active safety surveillance of medical products. Speaker: M. Alan Brookhart, PhD,
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill,
USA WORKSHOP 7 Speakers: Jody Broun, Co-Chair, National Congress of Australia’s First People, Dr Mark Wenitong, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, Kim Morey, Manager, Aboriginal Health Branch, South Australia Department for Health and Ageing Registration is FREE please email Vanessa (vanessa.lee@sydney.edu.au or 0417 983 001) or Jessica (Jessica.stewart@doh.health.nsw.gov.au or 0403 062 345) prior to the day to secure a seat. For further information click here WORKSHOP 8 Post Conference Workshop WORKSHOP 9 The course is primarily intended for PhD students and early career researchers who have completed introductory-level courses, and who wish to add depth to their understanding of some of the fundamental issues in epidemiological research. Speakers: Professors Tony Blakely and John Lynch
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