Awards and Prizes

• Richard Osborne. 2007 Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) Travelling Scholarship for an oral presentation titled “Chronic diseases self-management programs: Policies and evaluation mechanisms” submitted for presentation at the 5th Health Services & Policy Research Conference, New Zealand, 2-5 December 2007. Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA).
• Richard Osborne. 2006 International Bone and Joint Decade Scholar (only 2 awarded annually). The Bone and Joint Scientific Committee for Awards. Promoting documented research and ongoing projects in experimental or clinical cartilage research in osteoarthritis. BJD Worlds Network Conference. Gelita AG. Durban, South Africa, 3-4 November 2006. €2,500
• Ilana Ackerman. 2006 CASS Early Career Researcher (ECR) Travel Grant to attend the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington DC. Contributing to Australian Scholarship and Science (CASS) Foundation.
• Sandra Nolte. 2006 ISOQOL (International Society of Quality of Life Research) travel grant. $US 1,000.
• Sandra Nolte. 2006 RMIT University Regional Award (onshore) 2006 in recognition of important research for the Australian community $3,000
• Sandra Nolte. 2006 New Investigator Award - Best Oral Presentation. Is a one-off post intervention assessment a valid method to assess outcomes from chronic disease self-management programs? 13th Annual ISOQOL Conference. International Society for Quality of Life Research. Lisbon, Portugal, 11th to 14th October 2006.
• Sandra Nolte. 2006 Elsworth GR, Springer AL, Sinclair AJ, Osborne RH. Who benefits most from participating in chronic disease self-management programs? The Australian Disease Management Association 2nd Annual National Conference, Melbourne, Australia (Oral presentation; awarded for the best abstract), 7th to 8th September 2006.
• Richard Osborne. 2006 Allied Health prize. Melbourne Health Medical Research Week. Melbourne Health. Melbourne, Australia, 1-8 June 2006.
• Richard Osborne. 2006 Solander Fellow. Advancing arthritis public health research and evidence-informed policy – an Australia– Sweden collaborative. The Solander Program. $7,000
• Lucy Busija. 2006 Solander Travel Scholarship. Population health studies of the personal and societal impact of arthritis. The Solander Program. $4,000
• Richard Osborne. 2006 NHMRC Population Health Career Development Award Fellowship. Expanding capacity for public health and health service delivery research and for evidence-based policy development in Australian health systems; and encouraging the translation of research outcomes into practice. The National Health and Medical Research Council.
• Ilana Ackerman. New presenter award - Best Presentation and Best Paper. The long wait for hip and knee surgery: Going from bad to worse. Eleventh Annual National Health Outcomes Conference: Making a difference. Australian Health Outcomes Collaboration. Canberra, 17-18 August 2005
• Melanie Hawkins, Richard Osborne. Award (20 most meritorious papers): National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Health Disparities: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities. National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (CDC). Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 2nd to 4th March, 2005. Response shift: The measurable & desired outcome of chronic disease self-management programs that violates pre-post assessment.