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Extension on call for topics for Rapid Review
Due to the impact of COVID-19 on many organisations, a decision has been made to extend the call for nominations for topics for rapid review by one week, to Friday 20th March. Please click on the button below for further information and to nominate a...
Regional Australia ‘sidelined’ in medical research
The Spinifex Network featured in the The Times Higher Education on 9 March 2020. More than 50 regionally based Australian universities and health agencies have joined forces to demand greater involvement in medical research, saying that the needs of the bush are...
Taking Spinifex Network to Canberra
On the 12th and 13th of February Chips Mackinolty from the Central Australian Academic Health Science Network, Christine Jorm and Jenny May from NSW Regional Health Partners and Warren Payne from the Western Alliance made a visit to Canberra to promote the Spinifex...
Better linking to the West – Christine visits WA – to discuss Spinifex 2-5 February
Australia is a huge country but WA is our largest State (33% of our landmass) and it was great to find time to visit. As well as giving a lecture on the Spinifex Network and being introduced to some great WA researchers, I participated in some terrific meetings with...
The Spinifex Symposium
Fifty leaders in health and medical research from across Australia gathered in Alice Springs on 12-13 November. The purpose of the Spinifex Symposium was to start a connected conversation about a dedicated Rural Health and Medical Research Alliance as an innovative...
Rural researchers are joining forces at Spinifex Symposium to improve health outcomes for people living in regional areas
The Spinifex Network has recently been featured in the Newcastle Herald. People living in rural communities are getting a raw deal when it comes to health research. But this week, academics from the University of Newcastle and the University of New England are among...
National Spinifex Symposium in Alice Springs to feature drought and rural mental health
The Spinifex Network has been featured in the NACCHO Aboriginal Health News Alerts. In a move not seen before, institutions from across Australia are banding together to find new ways to use research to help rural people. Facing an unrelenting drought and the impact...
Australia’s medical researchers in Centre for rural health
The Alice Springs News has published a letter to the editor about the Spinifex Network. In a move not seen before, institutions from across Australia are banding together to find new ways to use research to help rural people. Facing an unrelenting drought and the...
Catch up with the Spinifex Blast
