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    4 Feb 2019

    Want to be the first to know about our media tips and expert availability? Email news@media.unimelb.edu.au to subscribe to our Daily Experts alert

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    3 hours ago

    Indigenous author and advocate Bruce Pascoe is our new Melbourne Enterprise Professor in Indigenous Agriculture. The role is designed to build knowledge, understanding, engagement and research in Indigenous agriculture within the Faculty. 📷

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    Indigenous author Bruce Pascoe has joined as Enterprise Professor in Indigenous Agriculture. The role is designed to build knowledge & understanding of Indigenous agriculture & to grow engagement & research activities in this area. →

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  4. 5 hours ago

    Melbourne’s COVID-19 case numbers are heavily concentrated in the north and west. What factors contribute to this pattern and how can Melbourne ‘re-open’ in a way that tackles associated disadvantage? →

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  5. 5 hours ago

    Are you technostressed? Whether it's technology pressuring people to work longer and faster or the stress on people having to keep up with all the different apps and programs they have to use, there’s increasing incidence of technostress. →

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    Aug 30

    While changes in the weather have long been associated with changes of mood, Professor Nick Haslam says there is data to back it up. Some of it tenuous, he says, but there is enough around to link sunshine and positive mood, so let's take what we can.

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    Aug 31

    New research shows many Australian women mistakenly believe that ovarian cancer can be prevented through vaccination and PAP tests – telling us more needs to be done to raise awareness.

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    New research shows many Australian women mistakenly believe that ovarian cancer can be prevented through vaccination – telling us more needs to be done to raise awareness

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    Aug 30

    This week explores avidity vs. affinity in the immune and antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 for the latest issue of

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  10. Aug 30

    Will "hard-hitting" COVID-19 ads have the desired impact? The COVID-19 advertisements are helping to individualise the impact of the pandemic, but they may not be hard-hitting enough to change behaviour writes Dr Cassandra Hayward from . →

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    Aug 27

    🙏 Huge thank you for your expert contribution to the smoking section of the brand NEW guide! We are grateful for everything you do in your research to help people with MS. 🌟

    It’s great to see our recommendations published full of evidence-based information and myth busters for people with . It was a massive effort together with great colleagues from around Australia and ! 👏🏼
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    Aug 27

    🚭 Smoking increases the risk of MS progression by around 55%, making it a key risk factor for disease progression. from explains the importance of quitting and where to get support. Find out more 👉

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    Aug 27

    Thanks for supporting this initiative Brendan. We need to to close the unacceptable gap in stroke care between rural/indigenous and metropolitan Australia. Lightweight imaging technology will help.

    Great piece about two out and out stars of the clinical science world, Geoff Donnan and Stephen Davis. Saving lives through generating and applying the latest and best science.
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  14. Aug 27

    Australia's quest for Dark Matter gathers pace with Stage 1 of the Stawell Underground Physics Lab now completed. →

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    Aug 27

    No spike in suicides in Victoria during COVID-19 lockdowns, coroners court figures show Thank you to coroner John Cain for lifting the veil of secrecy taboo and delay in releasing real time suicide data. An Australian first and vital to detect clusters

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  16. Aug 27

    An ABC article highlighting the racism experienced by former St Kilda player Robert Muir shows how far the AFL still has to grapple with its own history as it travels towards reconciliation, says Professor & Director of Indigenous Studies Dr Barry Judd ➡️

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  17. Aug 27

    Understanding palliative care’s ‘image problem’ is key to developing public education and breaking down the barriers to enhance quality of life for people with serious illness, says and

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    Aug 26

    Our Deputy Dean, Professor Sarah Maddison , started uni as a 25-year-old single parent so that she could learn how to make policy that would improve young people's lives. Read more about her story and the transformative power of education 👏👏

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    Aug 26

    We’ve joined forces with 's Melbourne Medical School to create the new Baker Department of Cardiometabolic Health, dedicated to driving down deaths from the world’s biggest killers. Find out more:

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    Aug 26

    “This is ambitious but achievable. It has the ability finally to provide equity and access to regional, rural and indigenous people who have been very poorly served.” - . Read about the and our mission in the

    About 8 million people in regional Australia can't access stroke medicine quickly enough to benefit. Now there's a plan to take the treatment to them and save them from possible disability, distress and death, writes Jill Margo.
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    Aug 24

    What happens if we reach September 13 and there is still low levels of community transmission? Our Dean Prof. Shitij Kapur gives his thoughts to on 's Saturday Extra. 🎧 Full interview:

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