Events Calendar | Public Lecture | Griffith University

17 Oct

Moral panic, media mayhem & safety for our LGBTIQA+ youth

Issues around equity and safety are paramount for our LGBTIQA+ youth. How can we shift seemingly entrenched attitudes to create real and substantial political and cultural change?
Join us to hear our panel speak about moral panic, bullying, Safe Schools, and cultural change.

05 Oct

Bedside to bench and back again: facilitating translational research in Australia

Menzies Health Institute Queensland Lecture with Professor Ian Frazer AC FRS
âWhile Australia is widely recognised for output in the basic biomedical sciences, the country's contribution to the global translation of biomedical research output into practical outcomes has been less spectacular with regulatory system favouring early stage translation. Solutions must cross the state/federal health system divide and harness competitiveness.

04 Oct

Brisbane Lowy Institute Paper Launch - Choosing Openness: Why global engagement is best for Australia

In the early part of the twentieth century, the world turned inwards as fear shut down flows of people and goods across national borders. A century later, can we make a better choice?
Please join us for the launch of Choosing Openness, a new Lowy Institute Paper by the Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP and published by Penguin Random House Australia.

28 Sep

A new method for assessing thermoregulatory impairments during exercise in clinical populations and Thermoregulatory responses to exercise in people with heart failure

Dr Jay's presentation will discuss new methods for assessing impairments during exercise in clinical populations and examine a recently developed new experimental approach to identify the influence of various factors. Bryce Balmain's presentation will examine the thermoregulatory responses to exercise in the heat in people with heart failure, discuss findings of key studies focussing on thermoregulation in heart failure and describe some of the ongoing work in this area.

26 Sep

Brain and Behaviour HDR Conference presentations

Menzies Health Institute Queensland Optimising Health Outcomes Program
Dementia Awareness Month Events Schedule Tuesday 26 September

21 Sep

Griffith Asia Institute Research Seminar: Political economy of financial reforms in authoritarian transition economies: A comparative analysis of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Alexandr Akimov examines financial reforms in two countries of post-communist Central Asia, which share common Soviet past, have close geographical location, cultural, language and religious ties - Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Yet, their approach to economic reform was rather different. As a consequence, outcomes of those reforms varied. The difference is especially noticeable in the aftermath of the global financial crisis (GFC).