New HER Australia Centre for women's mental health education and research

Prof Jayashri Kulkarni leading a team meeting

HER Centre Australia, established as a formal Monash University Centre in 2022 stands for Health, Education, and Research in Women's Mental Health. For more information about HER Centre Australia, visit the HER Centre Australia website - www.monash.edu/her-centre

Save the date (20 October) for Professor Jayashri's public lecture to launch the centre and focus on why women's mental health education and research is so important.

30 Aug - 5 Sep 2022 Central Clinical School recent publications

Study: New insights into human immune memory from SARS‐CoV‐2
infection and vaccination. Image credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock.com

Recent publications featuring research as notified by PubMed during 30 August - 5 September 2022 from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments.

The most recent validated publications for the school and departments can be seen on their publications pages, linked to from the headings below. Otherwise, read down the entry for recent notifications. The below is not a comprehensive list.

Early career researcher’s paper honoured in Faculty awards

Dr Narelle Cox has won one of the six 2022 MNHS ECR publication
prizes for her paper on telerehabilitation for chronic respiratory disease.

by Anne Crawford

A paper reviewing the merits of telerehabilitation for Chronic Respiratory Disease has won one of the six Monash Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Faculty Early Career Researcher Publication Prizes 2022 (see detail of prizes in Monash intranet).

The global review by Central Clinical School physiotherapist/academic Dr Narelle Cox was awarded the Jenny Keating Prize for Nursing and Allied Health.

Repeated concussions can thicken the skull, Monash University study finds

Repeated head trauma thickens skull bone. Image: Shutterstock

New research has found that repeated concussions can thicken the structure of skull bones. Previous studies have shown damage to the brain following concussion, but have not looked at the brain’s protective covering.

A Monash-led study published in the journal Scientific Reports by Associate Professor Bridgette Semple from the Monash University’s Central Clinical School Department of Neuroscience, found that repeated concussions resulted in thicker, denser bones in the skull.

See faculty story here.

Ask 'R U OK?' No qualifications needed. Because a conversation could change a life.

R U OK? day is coming up on 8 September. Join us for a free coffee at the Forecourt (Commercial Road) between the Baker Building and the Burnet Tower. This is provided by a joint initiative between the CCS OH&S team and the CCS GEDI committee, to encourage us to take a stroll with our colleagues around Fawkner Park and start a conversation that could change a life. Please register here.

Congratulations to MSHC team on their Eureka Prize win

The team at the awards ceremony. L-R: Prof Christopher Fairley AO,
Prof Deborah Williamson, Prof Catriona Bradshaw, Prof Jane Hocking,
A/Prof Eric Chow, Prof Marcus Chen

Congratulations to Monash University’s Associate Professor Eric Chow, Professors Christopher Fairley AO, Catriona Bradshaw and Marcus Chen together with University of Melbourne's Professors Jane Hocking and Deborah Williamson, who have won a prestigious Eureka Prize for their important work on sexual health.

They were awarded the Australian Infectious Disease Research Centre Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases Research at a ceremony in Sydney.

See their video and read faculty story.

23-29 Aug 2022 Central Clinical School recent publications

COVID-19 patients are more sensitive to FBG levels, and suffer

more severe clinical complications than other pneumonia patients:

Study

Recent publications featuring research as notified by PubMed during 23-29 August 2022 from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments.

The most recent validated publications for the school and departments can be seen on their publications pages, linked to from the headings below. Otherwise, read down the entry for recent notifications. The below is not a comprehensive list.