Improved tools are under development for determining the causes of death in settings where medical examinations or post-mortem autopsies are not routinely conducted. The population-based approach, namely verbal autopsy using ...
May 9, 2018
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Scientia Professor Kaarin Anstey joined the University in 2018 under its Strategic Hires and Retention Pathways (SHARP) scheme, an initiative of the UNSW 2025 Strategy to recruit world-class researchers to the University, ...
Jun 16, 2020
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ESMO, the leading European professional organisation for medical oncology, was present at the WHO Global Conference on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) that finished last Friday in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Oct 23, 2017
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Out of all his research, Geoff Ball says it is has been his simplest project that has shown the greatest return. In 2011, Ball, an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta's Faculty ...
Aug 18, 2014
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A research team has defined what it will take to keep health professionals in remote communities in a recent paper published in BMC's Human Resources for Health.
Feb 12, 2020
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The COVID pandemic has exposed long-standing structural fault lines in societies—especially in health systems. These same inequalities also drive another major global health concern: antimicrobial resistance.
Apr 6, 2022
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As thousands of runners take on Plymouth's half marathon, researchers from the University of Plymouth Occupational Therapy team have analysed what makes students engage with running.
May 21, 2018
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A critical part of reaching the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals in 13 years' time is to ensure that everyone can access equitable and affordable healthcare – more commonly known as universal health coverage.
Dec 11, 2017
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The cost of treating cancer in the New Zealand public health sector is more than $800 million annually – hundreds of millions higher than previous estimates, according to University of Otago research.
Apr 14, 2015
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An overwhelming majority of Americans (95%) think infectious and emerging diseases facing other countries will pose a 'major' or 'minor' threat to the U.S. in the next few years, but more than half (61%) say they are confident ...
May 21, 2018
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