Andrew Campbell on Managing Young People's Mental Health Support
Young people aged 12–25 are the highest at-risk group for experiencing mental health problems. They are also the group most likely to look for help and support online. Using the internet for social ne...
14 Des 20161h 17min
Professor Andrew McLachlan on Six Drug Myths you Probably Believe
Have you ever bought a pain reliever that ‘targets’ specific pain? Can pain relievers really target a part of the body? Are ‘natural’ medicines or supplements always better or safer than prescription ...
14 Des 20161h 17min
Leading Change: Breast Cancer Research and Consumer Advocacy
Professor Sharon Kilbreath and Ms Sally Crossing have a lot of things in common, but perhaps the most striking is their refusal to accept the status quo. When both women were diagnosed with breast can...
14 Des 20161h 25min
Food@Sydney Global Food, Nutrition Security and Climate Change
How will a changing climate affect global food production and global hunger? What do we know and what needs to be done? In March 2014, the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change released the 5th ...
14 Des 20161h 12min
Food@Sydney Smallholder Agriculture and the Future of Global Food and Nutrition Security
At a global level, the people who produce most of the world’s food – smallholder farmers – are also the people who suffer the most food and nutrition insecurity. Why is this so? And what needs to happ...
14 Des 201635min
Food@Sydney Why don't we eat enough fruit and vegetables?
Why Don’t we Eat Enough Fruit and Vegetables? This seminar will address the question of why Australians are eating too few fruits and vegetables. National and State governments and NGOs have invested...
14 Des 201644min
Food@Sydney Tackling Food Waste
Too much of the world’s food goes to waste. Wasted food represents a burden on our scarce environmental resources that we can scarcely afford, and loss of product that could (indeed, should) be made a...
14 Des 201650min
Food@Sydney Professor Julie Guthman on Lives Versus Livelihoods
Lives versus Livelihoods? fumigants, farmworkers, and biopolitics in California’s strawberry industry 23 November, 2015 There’s been great debate over the years about pesticide use in the production...
14 Des 20161h 19min
