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Monday 15 July 2024
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Connecting Illawarra and South West Sydney the next gamechanger
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Health and Medicine
UOW researchers looking at signs of mental illness
Researchers are calling on the community to help them better understand perceptions of mental illness in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven region.
Health and Medicine
Psychologists collaborate on Australia’s largest suicide prevention trial
Illawarra-Shoalhaven region chosen as one of four locations across NSW to implement new suicide prevention trial.
Education
Unique program helps Aboriginal children to connect with their culture
Shoalhaven after-school program provides Aboriginal students with skills for a healthy lifestyle
Professor leads Illawarra residents in health challenge
Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health Professor Alison Jones is encouraging Illawarra and Shoalhaven residents to join her in a study that will encourage and track weight loss in 2015.
Prominent research and innovation advisor brings insights to the Illawarra
The Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, a joint initiative of the University of Wollongong (UOW) and Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (ISLHD), is pleased to announce that one of Australia’s most respected research and innovation advisors, Professor Alan Pettigrew, has joined the IHMRI Board as Chair.
Illawarra researchers help local residents fight battle of the bulge
University of Wollongong and Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District researchers are inviting Illawarra residents who are concerned about their weight and lifestyle to get involved in an innovative new trial of a personalised health program that will help them lose weight and develop a healthier lifestyle.