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Take a look at the training courses availabe:

PHD Scholarship: Improving health outcomes for justice-involved children and adolescents in Australia: A national, 20-year retrospective cohort study.

Join this NHMRC-funded project aimed at addressing the complex health needs of justice-involved young people in Australia. This unique research links nationwide youth justice records with health data, offering an opportunity to explore and improve health outcomes for this vulnerable population. 

Aims

The broad aims of the NHMRC-funded project within which this PhD project is embedded include: 
1. Describe patterns of use of primary care, federally subsidised mental health care, ED and hospital services, and pharmaceuticals (including psychotropic and pain medications); 
2. Estimate all-cause and cause-specific crude mortality rates (CMRs) in the cohort, and in subgroups defined by sex and Indigenous status; 
3. Calculate all-cause and cause-specific standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) in the entire cohort, and in subgroups defined by sex and Indigenous status; 
4. Identify static and time-varying risk and protective factors for all-cause and cause-specific mortality. 
5. Through expert consensus (a Delphi panel), generate practice-based and consumer-informed evidence regarding candidate interventions to improve health outcomes and reduce preventable morbidity and mortality in justice-involved youth. 

The successful PhD candidate will work with their supervisory team to develop aims that are specific to their PhD and align with their interests and expertise. This may include, for example, a focus on particular health issues, patterns of healthcare use, and/or preventable mortality. Appropriately skilled candidates have the option of developing a mixed-methods PhD, involving consultation and engagement with project stakeholders including service providers and young people.

Objectives

Using globally unique, nationally linked health and justice data, the overall objective of this project is to inform policies that will improve the health and wellbeing of justice-involved young people across Australia.

An internship may be available for this project. The successful candidate will have an opportunity to work with the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) which is using these linked data to develop and pilot a mechanism for routinely monitoring the health of justice-involved young people in Australia. This work is being overseen by the National Youth Justice Health Advisory Group, which is chaired by Professor Kinner.

To find out more and apply, click here: Scholarship details | Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Application deadline: 18/08/2024

This two-week course will help you gain an understanding of vaccines and why they can help protect the health of those living or working in prison and those around them.

There are two courses: one for vaccine trained staff and one for non-vaccine trained staff. You’ll learn why infectious diseases are particularly important in the prison context and what the main risk factors are before and during incarceration. 

The course is available from the 1st of March, and can be accessed via the links below:  

1. French:

Non-vaccine trained staff: Santé en prison : Vaccinations pour les personnes travaillant et vivant en priso (futurelearn.com)

Vaccine trained staff: Santé en prison : Vaccinations pour les personnes travaillant et vivant en priso (futurelearn.com

2. Romanian:

Non-vaccine trained staff: https://www.futurelearn.com/admin/courses/prison-health-vaccinations-for-people-working-and-living-in-prisons-non-vaccine-trained-staff-moldova/2

Vaccine trained staff: Improving Vaccination Knowledge in Prisons - Vaccine-Trained Staff - FutureLearn

3. German

Vaccine trained staff Improving Vaccination Knowledge in Prisons - Vaccine-Trained Staff - FutureLearn

Non vaccine trained staff Vaccination in Prisons for Non-Vaccine Trained Staff - Online Course FutureLearn

4. Italian

Vaccine trained staff Improving Vaccination Knowledge in Prisons - Vaccine-Trained Staff - FutureLearn

Non-vaccine trained staff Vaccination in Prisons for Non-Vaccine Trained Staff - Online Course FutureLearn

 5. Cyprus

Vaccine trained staff Vaccination in Prisons for Non-Vaccine Trained Staff - Online Course FutureLearn

Non-vaccine trained staff Improving Vaccination Knowledge in Prisons - Vaccine-Trained Staff - FutureLearn 

  

Prevention and management of infectious diseases in places of detention:

  • Apply the WHO principles for preventing and managing infectious diseases in places of detention to their own areas of work
  • Set priorities to improve the quality of infectious disease management based on the availability of resources of the detention facility
  • Develop an action plan considering the interaction with general community health systems
  • Train their peers to deliver the WHO-recommended interventions

All participants receive a digital certificate after successfully completing the course.

Find out more and register here: WHO/Europe training course for prison health-care workers: prevention and management of infectious diseases in places of detention