Congratulations to the Centre’s 2022 Honours students on their scholarship awards and we wish them all the best for their research and training
Validation of the Male Depression Risk Scale short form in a cross-sectional study of Australian men. Herreen D, Rice S, Zajac I. Brief assessment of male depression in clinical care:BMJ Open. 2022 Mar 28;12(3):e053650. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053650.
Contact: Dr Ian Zajac
To celebrate International Women’s Day, the Centre is highlighting some of the fantastic women of men’s health that have been supported by the Centre and are achieving great work in the field. FCMHW encourages and commends the involvement of women in men’s health and hopes to further support it in the future.
This Program aims to listen to the voices of young males around mental health and wellbeing within masculinised sporting cultures, explore the way in which sporting clubs work with young males around mental health and wellbeing, investigate the way in which masculinities are created, maintained, and perpetuated within masculinized sporting clubs, and promote the importance of mental health and wellbeing as a key element of sporting club culture.
Contact: Murray Drummond
Using social media in health literacy research: A promising example involving Facebook with young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males from the Top End of the Northern Territory
Smith JA, Merlino A, Christie B, Adams M, Bonson J, Osborne RH, Drummond M, Judd B, Aanundsen D, Fleay J, Gupta H. Health Promot J Austr. 2020 Sep 18. doi: 10.1002/hpja.421.
Contact: James Smith
This research program investigates the supportive and inhibitive factors of Indigenous males’ participation and achievement in higher education, in addition to health promotion strategies for Indigenous males.
Menzies School of Health Research
Contact: Professor James Smith
