News and events

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  7th Vera Scantlebury Brown Memorial Lecture presented by Professor Harriet Hiscock

  Have you checked the children? Mental health care for young Australian children: what is wrong and what can we do about it?

  Date and Time: Wednesday 21 August 2019, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

  Location: David Penington Theatre, Bio21 Institute, 30 Flemington Rd, Parkville, VIC 3052

  Free to attend but RSVP to gr-mc@unimelb.edu.au

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  The Hon. Julia Gillard AC launches the Centre of Research Excellence in Childhood Adversity

  On Monday 27 May former Prime Minister and Beyond Blue Chair, the Hon. Julia Gillard AC, officially launched the Centre of Research Excellence in Childhood Adversity and Mental Health.  

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  Newspaper article: Anxious for results

  Ahead of the Centre's launch, Chief Investigator and Director, Professor Harriet Hiscock was interviewed by the Herald Sun. Click here to read the article which featured in the Herald Sun Newspaper on Monday 27 May. 

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  Half of all adult mental health conditions – such as depression and anxiety – emerge before a child reaches 14 years

  Click here to read the Hon. Julia Gillard's opinion piece about childhood adversity and mental health which featured in the Herald Sun on Monday 27 June.

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  Media coverage of the CRE launch

  Watch the Channel 10 news coverage from the Centre's official launch.

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  New podcast: Youth mental health crisis on Sunday Extra

  Click here to listen to Professor Harriet Hiscock, Director and Chief Investigator of the CRE, talk about the need for more mental health services in the early childhood years with Hugh Riminton on the ABC's Radio National.  

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