What's On at UWA

This five-day 6 point unit introduces the principles of essential human nutrition with applications to public health. This unit will provide students with a basic introduction to food and nutrition as well as applications to public health. Applied topics include nutrition for different life stages; (...)

LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "New approaches to prevent airway inflammation in early CF lung disease – from mummies to MetaGex" by Clin/Prof Stephen Stick, Head, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children; School of Paediatrics and Child Health (...)

Carrington Shepherd is a senior analyst at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth, with qualifications in economics and statistics (BEc) and health sciences (PhD). His research focuses on the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, and the use of (...)

This is the 3rd Annual Symposium highlighting research in ear and hearing. The keynote speakers have a high international profile. Dr Wayne Wilson (UQ) will be speaking about (Central) Auditory Processing Disorder, and Dr De Wet Swanepoel will be speaking on mHealth. Presentations by other (...)

Our Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases unit is designed to allow students to understand the principles of infectious disease emergence and transmission using current cases and examples.

The unit reviews the traditional tools of outbreak and epidemic investigation, combined (...)

By Professor Kenneth R. Chapman, Director, Asthma and Airway Centre of the University Health Network; President, Canadian Network for Asthma Care; Director, Canadian Registry for Alpha1 Anti-trypsin Deficiency. 12 noon for light lunch, 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation

Professor Peter K Panegyres will be presenting a FREE public seminar on New Treatments in Dementia: Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). This seminar is designed as an information and discussion session for patients, their families and interested individuals. Topics (...)

The task for the 10 finalists is to give an engaging talk on their PhD topic and it's significance in language that everyone can understand - in just 3 minutes. The audience will vote for its People's Choice.

Come and find out about our undergraduate and postgraduate courses, career options, scholarship opportunities, our valuable research, community programs and facilities.

There's also residential college tours, hands-on activities, live music, entertainment, and plenty of fun activities (...)

Professor Daniel Galvão is a Research scientist in exercise oncology and the Director of the Edith Cowan University Health and Wellness Institute, Perth, Western Australia. His work has facilitated the use of exercise as an important strategy to mitigate treatment side effects and improve (...)

The Seminar:The Raine Study is one of the largest successful prospective cohorts of pregnancy, childhood, adolescence and now young adulthood in the world. It began in 1989 at King Edward Memorial Hospital with the recruitment of 2,900 pregnant women in early pregnancy. These families were (...)

LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Regulator of G protein Signalling 5 and Vascular Remodelling" by Prof Ruth Ganss, Head of Angiogenesis and Tumor Immunology Research, Western Australian Institute for Medical Research. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30 (...)

Scope: How do you creatively plan for a population of 62 million by 2100? Australia’s current major city planning frameworks only account for an extra 5.5 million people. Whether we want a ‘Big Australia’ or not, Australia’s 21st century is likely to see rapid and continual growth – if (...)

The Blood Service mobile unit will be located at the UWA Crawley campus 2 - 5 September and has many appointments available. To make an appointment call 13 95 96 or visit donateblood.com.au Every blood donation can save three lives and only takes one hour of your time.

This multidisciplinary aged care seminar will provide an insight into the problems faced in managing chronic diseases in the increasing aged population. Presentations will investigate opportunities for working better together, to meet the health care needs of older people in Western (...)

The Lung Institute of WA invites you to a free seminar on: "Role of gene networks in asthma" by Dr Anthony Bosco, Immunology & Genomics, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.

Peter Somerford has been the Principal Epidemiologist in the Department of Health, Western Australia since 2005 and previously worked as a data analyst in the health field for over 15 years. In his role as Principal Epidemiologist, Peter directs and manages the Epidemiology Branch in its function (...)

Lunchtime Pilates available on Campus Tuesday(12pm) and Thursday(1pm).

Tues 12pm Pilates Circuit = Machine & mat based classes with a focus on efficient and effective movement patterns. Max 10 per class.

Thur 1pm Core Conditioning = Mat based Pilates class designed to (...)

Professor John Forrester, Professor in Ocular Immunology at UWA, Professor Mariapia Degli-Esposti and Dr Matthew Wikstrom are currently exploring the role of viral infection in the pathogenesis of autoimmunity using uveitis as a model system. Uveitis is a sight-threatening disease for which there (...)