Exploring remote ‘Territory’ to understand gambling in Indigenous communities; an update on the NT Gambling Project
Seminar
There is limited research available on gambling in remote Indigenous communities. The Centre for Gambling Research (CGR) is undertaking a project in the Northern Territory to build context and understanding of gambling in three remote Indigenous communities. This seminar will present qualitative…
What is evidence in a post-truth society?
Conference
Evidence is fundamental to decision-making. As individuals, we make decisions based on information available to us, which often includes personal experience. Governments and lawmakers are faced with making decisions in our best interests, and data informing evidence is crucial. But experts, data,…
How are millennials faring? Next steps at age 25: survey implementation and initial findings
Seminar
The seminar will cover the survey design and implementation of Next Steps Age 25 Survey and present some initial findings. Next Steps (previously known as Longitudinal Study of Young People in England) is a large national cohort study following the lives of around 16,000 people in England born in…
Data science meets social science: Mapping the anti-vaccination movement on Facebook
Seminar
The increasing availability of digital datasets via the web and social media have provided social scientists with unprecedented opportunities to study individual and group activity at scale. New (sub)disciplines such as digital humanities, computational social science, and digital sociology have…
Experiments and quasi-experiments to improve chronic disease care in low- and middle-income countries
Seminar
Focusing on HIV and cardiometabolic diseases (diabetes, high blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease) in low- and middle-income countries, this talk will discuss research that uses: i) nationally representative cross-sectional surveys to assess unmet need for care in a population and define…
Racism and its effects on health: evidence and interventions
Lecture
In this Public Lecture funded by the Harvard Club of Australia Foundation together with the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods and Research School of Population Health, Professor David Williams will discuss the multi-dimensional nature of racism and interventions to address racism…
Race/ethnicity and health: patterns, challenges and needed research
Seminar
Professor David Williams is the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of African and African American Studies and Sociology at Harvard University. He holds an MPH from Loma Linda University and a PhD…