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Professor Sharon Friel from the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) has been awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and is one of three academics from ANU who secured the prestigious award this year.
In reflecting on being the first and only person in her family to go to university (until her niece started in 2017), Sharon says that winning the Laureate feels “lovely, a little surreal and an important responsibility.”
“I would like to think that my award of the Laureate shows others from a variety of backgrounds what is possible, remembering the importance of structural and social support that sits behind this success.”
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ANU researchers win nation’s most prestigious funding award
The fate of galaxies, building health equity for all and making new materials from “crystal chemistry” will be the focus of three major research projects at The Australian National University (ANU) receiving more than $9.7 million in Federal Government funding.
Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths, Professor Sharon Friel and Professor Yun Liu have all won prestigious Laureate Fellowships from the Australian Research Council – the nation’s top research funding award.
The three join 14 other Australian-based researchers sharing more than $53.7 million in funding. Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt congratulated all three ANU winners.
“ARC Laureate Fellowships are Australia’s most prestigious researching funding scheme, recognising the very best of the best,” he said.
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Policy Forum Pod
, experts in the social determinants of health Sharon Friel and Sandro Demaio join hosts Arnagretta Hunter and Sharon Bessell to discuss realising the vision of a healthy Australia by 2030.
Has the COVID-19 pandemic forced Australian policymakers to address the social determinants of health? Instead of focusing on ‘vulnerable populations’, should the public debate instead focus on the conditions that create disadvantage, and stop transferring a sense of shame to individuals? Is now the time to reset and make achieving health for all by 2030 a real possibility? On this episode of
Policy Forum Pod, health equity expert Professor Sharon Friel and Dr Sandro Demaio, medical doctor and globally-renowned public health advocate, join Dr Arnagretta Hunter and Professor Sharon Bessell to discuss these questions and more. Listen here: https://bit.ly/2PUkbTY