14
Sep
Griffith Asia Institute Research Seminar: Japan and the new silk road: A Sino-Japanese battle of multilateral development banks?
The politics of international infrastructure and its financing have been receiving increased attention in the past years. Most recently, top Japanese politicians, including Prime Minister Abe, expressed interest in conditional cooperation with China's Belt and Road initiative and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
14
Sep
UCC Program Seminar - Topic 15: Big Data in Health Research
Understanding Chronic Conditions Program Seminar with Assoc Prof Marcel Dinger and Assoc Prof Brent Richards.These presentations discuss the evolution of artificial intelligence techniques in Healthcare and the niche role played by genetic testing in Healthcare and its future potential.
14
Sep
The economics of dementia
Menzies Health Institute Queensland Optimising Health Outcomes Program Seminar with Dr Kim-Huong Nguyen.In association with Dementia Awareness Month, this presentation will highlight a few important economic aspects of dementia. Dementia is one of the biggest challenges for the health and social care systems. Care for people with dementia is costly and there is an important contribution by informal carers that mostly invisible as far as economic values go.
13
Sep
Griffith Asia Institute Public Lecture: Superfast India: It will soon be the world's most populous country, but will India ever be a great power?
Adam Roberts has been a foreign correspondent at The Economist since 1998. His latest book, 'Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation' (Public Affairs and Profile Books, in 2017) was picked by the Financial Times as one of its books of the summer for 2017, and by Fareed Zakaria, on CNN, as his 'book of the week', in late July 2017. Drawing on his experience as a correspondent in India, he argues that India must overcome enormous domestic problems to emerge as a stronger power.
12
Sep
The elephant in the room: sexual expression of people with dementia
Menzies Health Institute Queensland Optimising Health Outcomes Program Seminar with Dr Cindy Jones.In association with Dementia Awareness Month, this presentation highlights prejudicial attitudes of an asexual older population exist among health professionals. Sexual expression by people with dementia within an aged care context is a confronting and challenging issue. Dr Jones will discuss this neglected aspect of care for people living with dementia.
11
Sep
Supporting care recipient/carer dyads in the early stages of dementia
Menzies Health Institute Queensland Optimising Health Outcomes Program Seminar with Dr Gillian Stockwell-SmithIn association with Dementia Awareness Month, this presentation reports on the outcomes from a mixed-methods study that sought to establish the effectiveness of early intervention in improving self-efficacy, wellbeing and dyadic relationship outcomes for care recipient/carer dyads in the early-stages of dementia.