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.
Implications of critical race theory for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men's health.
Merlino A, Canuto K, Smith JA. Lancet Glob Health. 2021 Jun;9(6):e756. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00100-5.
PMID: 34019832
Contact: Kootsy Canuto
Sleep macroarchitecture but not obstructive sleep apnea is independently associated with cognitive function in only older men of a population-based cohort. Parker JL, Appleton SL, Melaku YA, Stevens D, Wittert GA, Martin S, Adams RJ, Vakulin A. J Sleep Res. 2021 Apr 22:e13370. doi: 10.1111/jsr.13370.
Contact: David Stevens
'I know you shouldn't compare to other people, but I can't do anything most people can': Age, family and occupation categorisations in men's reasoning about their anxiety in an online discussion forum. Drioli-Phillips PG, Le Couteur A, Oxlad M, Feo R, Scholz B.Sociol Health Illn. 2021 Apr 25. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13247.
Contact: Phoebe Drioli-Phillips
12 midday - 1.30pm (SA Time).
L6 AHMS Building Rm 6052a/6052b and ZOOM
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Speaker 1: Mr Jacob Truong (MPhil candidate, The University of Adelaide, SAHMRI and Freemasons Centre for Male Health & Wellbeing)
Topic: Characterising the dynamic lipid profile changes in prostate cancer recurrence.
Speaker 2: Dr Melissa Opozda (Early Career Research Fellow, Freemasons Centre for Male Health & Wellbeing – SA Division)
Topic: E-health interventions for common mental health problems in men: what do we know, and what do we need to know?
Speaker 3: Dr Andrew Vincent (Senior Biostatistician, Freemasons Centre for Male Health & Wellbeing – SA Division)
Topic: Novel design for proof of concept studies.
12 midday - 1.30pm (SA Time).
L6 AHMS Building Rm 6052a/6052b and ZOOM
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Speaker 1: Nathan and Daniel Bolton (The Bolton Brothers Psychology) and Mr Callum MacPherson.
Topic: Masculinity and mental health workshop concept.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Adamson (Research Fellow, Freemason Centre for Male Health & Wellbeing – NT Division)
Topic: The experience of migrant fathers in Darwin – Renegotiating gender roles and family responsibilities: Early findings and next steps.
Speaker 3: Mr Alex Brae (PhD student, Freemasons Centre for Male Health & Wellbeing – SA Division)
Topic: Developing a signalling model of male help-seeking behaviour.
SA Prostate Clinical Meeting (Continuing Education)
Guest Speaker: Dr Mark Sidhom 18 May 2021, Coal Cellar & Grill, Hilton Hotel, Adelaide
Enquiries: menshealth@adelaide.edu.au
Sponsors: Mundipharma, Janssen
12 midday - 1.30pm (SA Time) by Zoom meeting only.
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1. Dr Nicole McPherson: NHMRC Early Career Fellow, Head of the Sperm and Embryo Biology Research Group, FCMHW-SA Division & Robinson Research Institute, the Uni of Adelaide.
Presentation title: Can we make SpermFAST!!!
2. Patience Castleton Honours student, Sperm and Embryo Biology Research Group, FCMHW-SA Division & Robinson Research Institute, the Uni of Adelaide.
Presentation title: Evaluating the interplay between semen ROS concentrations, sperm function and seminal plasma cytokine abundance in men.
3. Dr Himanshu Gupta: Research Fellow, FCMHW–NT Division, Wellbeing and Preventable Chronic Diseases Division, Menzies School of Health Research.
Presentation title: Supporting higher education for Indigenous men - program overview.
Building equitable health and social policy in Australia to improve immigrant health literacy. Monani D, Smith JA, O'Mara B, Rung D, Ireland S, Dube M. Health Promot J Austr. 2021 Mar 22. doi: 10.1002/hpja.481.
Contact: Daile Rung
Aberrations in circulating ceramide levels are associated with poor clinical outcomes across localised and metastatic prostate cancer. Lin HM, Huynh K, Kohli M, Tan W, Azad AA, Yeung N, Mahon KL, Mak B, Sutherland PD, Shepherd A, Mellett N, Docanto M, Giles C, Centenera MM, Butler LM, Meikle PJ, Horvath LG.
Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2021 Mar 21. doi: 10.1038/s41391-021-00338-z.
Contact: Lisa Butler
Effect of depression on health service utilisation in men: a prospective cohort study of Australian men aged 35 to 80 years. Martin S, Zajac I, Vincent A, Adams RJ, Appleton S, Wittert GA.
BMJ Open. 2021 Mar 17;11(3):e044893. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044893
PMID: 33737438
Contact: Sean Martin
Dr. Phillip Tully’s, Vascular & Brain Health group have commenced their working collaboration with Dr. Jalila Jbilou, MD, MSc, Ph.D, (pictured above) who is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Universite de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada) on men’s mental health in cardiac populations. Dr Jbilou’s fields of expertise are: health psycholog and community medicine, integrated care models and differentiated analysis according to gender / sex in the prevention of chronic diseases.
Dr. Jbilou has completed data collection for the MindTheHeart project, a world first on several fronts: being a psychological intervention focussed specifically on male cardiac patients with depression, anxiety and PTSD; being a stepped-care and transdiagnostic intervention, and collating a rich qualitative dataset on patient and healthcare workers pre and post the intervention.
Dr. Jalila Jbilou was awarded a scholarship to spend several months with the Freemasons Centre for Male Healh & Wellbeing while on sabbatical in early 2021 and unfortunately border closures from COVID-19 has restricted her travel plans and the Centre’s opportunity to learn from her expertise. Nonetheless, the burgeoning collaboration and forthcoming results of MindTheHeart will undoubtedly provide unique answers to help improve mental healthcare for males with comorbid cardiac disease in Canada, Australia, and other countries.
Further details about MindTheHeart are available as open-access “Understanding men's psychological reactions and experience following a cardiac event: a qualitative study from the MindTheHeart project” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31562150/
Effect of Testosterone treatment on bone microarchitecture and bone mineral density in men: a two-year RCT.Ng Tang Fui M, Hoermann R, Bracken K, Handelsman DJ, Inder WJ, Stuckey BGA, Yeap BB, Ghasem-Zadeh A, McLachlan R, Robledo KP, Jesudason D, Zajac JD, Wittert GA, Grossmann M.
.J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2021 Mar 8:dgab149. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgab149.
Contact: Gary Wittert
The Centre congratulates Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Dr Nicole McPherson (pictured with Cooper McPherson), on being honoured with the award of 2021 Lloyd Cox Fellow from the Robinson Research Institute. Nicole is currently a National Health & Medical Research Council Career Fellow who leads the Sperm and Embryo Biology Research Group. This new fellowship, which begins in April, will allow Nicole to further develop her research into dietary interventions for optimal male preconception health for which she has received seed funding from the Robinson Research Institute.
The Lloyd Cox Fellowship was named after Professor Lloyd Cox AM (1919 - 2001), a highly-respected leader in the field of reproductive health and medicine more broadly. In 1958, Lloyd was appointed Foundation Professor in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G) Department at the University of Adelaide. He was influential in state policy on reproductive technology and family planning. Lloyd was also a member of the University’s Commission on Medical Schools and successfully promoted Adelaide's need for a new medical school.
Professor Cox was appointed a Member of The Order of Australia in 1981 for services to women's health.
