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Latest news: 18 May 2018 What can health researchers learn from the dating website OK Cupid (aside from whether other people find them attractive)? Quite a lot, according to the Sax Institute’s Professor Emily Banks. The Scientific Director of the Sax Institute’s Research Assets Division, Prof Banks told a...

Latest news: 18 May 2018 The Sax Institute has achieved a huge amount in its first 15 years, and recently we held our first event designed to introduce the Institute to the business community. Many not-for-profit organisations derive a significant proportion of their funding from corporate and philanthropic sources,...

23 March 2018. A new research project funded by the Medical Research Future Fund is working to improve Aboriginal food security in both urban and remote communities. “This long needed community-led, collaborative project will demonstrate how best to tackle poor diet and food insecurity, which are major preventable contributors to the...

Public lecture by Professor Trish Greenhalgh and Professor Anne Kelso 21 March 2018. Measuring the impact of research is receiving ever-greater priority from research institutes, funding bodies and even researchers themselves. Yet an over-emphasis on many commonly used impact metrics can paradoxically encourage short-term thinking that camouflages the real...

20 March 2018. The latest issue of our online, open access, peer reviewed journal, Public Health Research & Practice, puts the spotlight on improving refugee health. Articles in the issue focus on the importance of collaboration in improving refugee health and wellbeing outcomes – how countries, governments health services...

Media release: 15 March 2018. Many refugees who are living in the Australian community are missing out on appropriate healthcare due to problems such as fragmented services and poor continuity of care, according to a series of papers in Public Health Research & Practice, published by the Sax Institute,...

14 March 2018. Safeguarding the security of sensitive data, whilst simultaneously ensuring researchers have access to the linked data they need to analyse and improve systems, policies and practices, is an ongoing challenge for data custodians and policymakers across Australia. SURE addresses many of the concerns of public data...

13 March 2018. The Queensland Government has enlisted the Sax Institute to help reach its ambitious target of cutting the state’s smoking rate to just 8% by 2026. The Prevention Division of Queensland Health commissioned the Institute to develop a dynamic simulation model to inform its smoking reduction strategy....

Latest news: 7 February 2018 The Sax Institute will host a new conference on knowledge mobilisation in Sydney in July on the best ways to increase the use and impact of evidence in policymaking – including the processes, resources and skills needed. New approaches to knowledge mobilisation: co-production, impact,...

Latest news: 6 February 2018. Please note: places for this lecture are full. If you wish to join the live stream, please register here. World-renowned public health expert, and advocate for increasing the use of knowledge in healthcare policy and practice, Professor Trish Greenhalgh OBE will return to Australia...