Nigel Gray Oration

The annual Nigel Gray Oration is sponsored by VPHREC. It is held as an annual event in honour of the achievements of one of Victoria’s most highly respected public health leaders.

Dr Nigel Gray’s contributions to cancer prevention, particularly through skin protection and smoking cessation programs, and his support for the establishment of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, have been recognized internationally as public health best practice.

2006

Speaker: Professor Melanie Wakefield, Cancer Council Victoria.

Lecture topic: "Smoke signals: Do anti-smoking messages really work?"

Summary                        New York Times Editorial: When Don't Smoke Means Do

Speaker: Dr Nigel Gray, Tobacco Unit International Agency for Research on Cancer,
Senior Associate, Cancer Council Victoria.

Lecture topic: "Global tobacco control: The missing element"

Powerpoint presentation

2005

Speaker: Sir Gustav Nossal AC, CBE, FAA, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Medical Biology, The University of Melbourne.

Lecture topic: "Your problem is our problem: Creating global partnerships for health"

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Powerpoint presentation                            

2004

Speaker: Professor Doreen Rosenthal, Key Centre for Women's Health in Society in the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne.

Lecture topic: "Is adolescence a health risk?"

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     Summary

2003

Speaker: Associate Professor Ian Anderson, the Centre for the Study of Health and Society at the University of Melbourne.
Lecture topic: "Aboriginal health policy: Rhetoric and reality"

Summary

2002

Speaker: Mr Paris Aristotle, Director, Victorian Foundation for the Survivors of Torture
Lecture topic: “Fortressing the developed world: Emerging trends in asylum procedures and detention practices and the impact on children and families fleeing persecution and war”

2001

Speaker: Professor Hugh Taylor, Ringland Anderson Professor and Head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Melbourne, and Managing Director of the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA)
Lecture topic: "Eye care for the community"

2000

Speaker: Dr Nigel Gray, Senior Research Fellow, European Institute of Oncology
Lecture topic: “Global disease prevention: Triumph and tragedy”

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