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Menzies School of Health Research 40 year anniversary - MJA Special Issue
Professor Alan Cass
The Menzies School of Health Research is celebrating its 40th anniversary. It’s Australia’s leading medical research institute for improving health outcomes for First Nations people and its reach now extends beyond our shores to the Asia Pacific region. To commemorate this milestone, Menzies has chosen a collection of papers published in the MJA to highlight their research. Professor Alan Cass AO is the Director of Menzies and joins me now to discuss its work, its history and its future.
Towards gender equity in research funding, with Prof Anne Kelso AO
Professor Anne Kelso AO
Vol 217, Issue 11: 5 December 2022. Professor Anne Kelso AO will be stepping down as CEO of the National Health and Medical Research Council in 5 months' time after 8 years in the role. She talks about gender equity in medical research funding and a new program introduced by the NHMRC, to accompany her MJA article on the subject. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 23 mins, 8 secs.
How the Medical Research Future Fund distributes grants, with Prof Christopher Maher
Professor Christopher Maher
Vol 214, Issue 3: 15 February 2021. Professor Christopher Maher is the Director of the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health at the University of Sydney. He discusses the Medical Research Future Fund and how it distributes grants to accompany his coauthored Perspective at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/214/3/comparison-distribution-medical-research-future-fund-grants-disease-burden. With the MJA's news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 12 mins, 27 secs.
MJA/MDA National Prize for Excellence in Medical Research, with Adj Prof Annabelle Farnsworth
Adjunct Professor Annabelle Farnsworth
Vol 213, Issue 3: 3 August. Adjunct Professor Annabelle Farnsworth is Medical Director of Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology. Her coauthored research on the first 6 months of the new National Cervical Screening Program has won the 2019 MJA/MDA National Prize for Excellence in Medical Research. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 12 mins 14 secs.
Disruption in academic publishing, with Prof Ginny Barbour
Professor Ginny Barbour
Vol 211, Issue 4: 19 August 2019. Professor Ginny Barbour is Director of the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group, and an advisor to the Office of Research Ethics and Integrity at the Queensland University of Technology. She discusses the irreversible road to change for academic publishing. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 23 minutes, 54 seconds.
Big GP data research, with Prof Louisa Jorm and Dr Michael Falster
Professor Louisa Jorm and Dr Michael Falster
Vol 209, Issue 2: 9 July 2018. Professor Louisa Jorm is Foundation Director of the Centre for Big Data Research in Health at UNSW Sydney. Dr Michael Falster is a biostatistician at the CBDRH. They talk about their latest research on GP provider communities. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell.
Reporting adverse events in Phase IV trials
Professor Paul Myles and Ms Sophie Wallace
Volume 204, Issue 6: 4 April 2016. Professor Paul Myles, Director of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at the Alfred and Monash University, and Sophie Wallace, research manager at Alfred Health, discuss the need to streamline the reporting of serious adverse events in Phase IV clinical trials. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. Also available as a video here.
Professor Anne Kelso, NHMRC
Professor Anne Kelso
Volume 203, Issue 1 -- 6 July. Professor Anne Kelso is chief executive officer of the National Health and Medical Research Council. She outlines her vision for the next 3 years of the NHMRC's operation and shares her thoughts on funding rates, women in science, translational research and the commercialisation of research outcomes. With MJA engagement editor, Cate Swannell.
Professor Brendan Crabb AC
Professor Brendan Crabb AC
Professor Brendan Crabb, director and CEO of the Burnet Institute for medical research in Melbourne, talks about the Medical Research Future Fund, his Perspective in the 16 February issue of the MJA and careers in clinical research.
MJA Centenary Series 18
Dr Ben McNeil
Dr Ben McNeil, an oceanographer with the University of New South Wales, is also founder of research and innovation website, Thinkable.org. He speaks with MJA engagement editor Cate Swannell about how Thinkable will help researchers both engage with other scientists, as well as the public and how it will also help raise funds for early researchers.