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| MCHR is engaged in a range of continuing education and capacity building activities for researchers and practitioners in our field. |
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| Developing public health research capacity |
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| COMPASS: Building public health capacity for complex questions, complex settings, complex interventions |
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| COMPASS is a five-year National Health and Medical Research Council Capacity Building Grant in Population Health Research ($2,333,750), awarded in October 2006 to the Centre, in partnership with the Primary Care Research Unit in the Department of General Practice at The University of Melbourne and the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Families Research Group at Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. COMPASS commenced in April 2007. |
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COMPASS has a major interest in the health and care of mothers and children. The focus for COMPASS is building public health research capacity for:
- conceptualising complex questions;
- working with populations who are often excluded from research, including Indigenous communities, immigrant and refugee women and women experiencing intimate partner violence; and
- designing and evaluating complex interventions in diverse settings ranging from hospitals to primary care and communities.
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The grant has provided us with the opportunity to develop a program of continuing education and development for postdoctoral staff in the transition from completing a PhD to becoming independent researchers. |
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COMPASS Lead Investigators are: Prof Judith Lumley, A/Prof Stephanie Brown (Healthy Mothers, Healthy Families, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute), Prof Jane Gunn (Primary Care Research Unit – PCRU, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne), Dr Rhonda Small, A/Prof Jeanne Daly and Prof Christine MacArthur (University of Birmingham) |
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COMPASS Team Investigators are: at MCHR, Dr Angela Taft, Dr Lisa Amir, Dr Della Forster, Dr Helen McLachlan, Fiona Bruinsma, Lyn Watson, Dr Arthur Hsueh, Dr Mridula Bandyopadhyay, Dr Mary-Ann Davey, Jo-Anne Rayner and Dr Karen Willis; at PCRU, Dr Renata Kokanovic; and at Healthy Mothers Healthy Families, Dr Jane Yelland and Tanya Koolmatrie. |
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For more information about COMPASS, click on the logo below: |
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| Click here to visit COMPASS |
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| Courses and workshops |
| Short Course in Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology |
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| MCHR periodically offers a four-day short course on reproductive and perinatal epidemiology. The course includes a mix of lectures and practical sessions on critical appraisal and problem solving and aims to provide participants with an appreciation of the principles of epidemiological methods and research in the areas of: |
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- fertility, infertility and early pregnancy;
- fetal growth and preterm birth,;
- perinatal outcomes;
- maternal mortality and morbidity;
- birth and intervention;
- birth defects and malformations;
- multiple births;
- cross-cultural issues in pregnancy and birth; and
- women's views and experiences of maternity care.
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Contact MCHR about dates for the next course: mchr@latrobe.edu.au |
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| Workshops |
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Workshops on topics relevant to our research are also held from time to time and advertised in MCHR News in through public health networks. |
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| For example, past workshops have been held on the design and conduct of perinatal trials, the uses and abuses of focus groups, as well as specific workshops held to launch and discuss study findings. |
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| Journal Club |
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MCHR has an active Journal Club held monthly, which provides staff and students with an opportunity to review, critique and discuss journal articles relevant to their research. |
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| Lunchtime seminars |
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Open lunchtime research seminars are held at MCHR on the fourth Wednesday of every month from February to December from 12.30-1.30pm. |
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Click here for the current seminar program: Lunchtime seminars |
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Content Approved by: Director, Mother and Child Health Research
Page maintained by: Administrator
Last Updated: 21 November 2008 |
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