Hope Alexander MPH

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Hope was invited to contribute to DVD content and attend a focus group, the outcome of which will be used to to develop a DVD for WA consumers with a long term condition.

The researchers are particularly interested in learning about the experiences/difficulties we or someone we care for have encountered in managing a long term condition and ways we have overcome them.

This study has been approved by the Curtin University Human Research Ethics Committee. The Principal Investigator is Professor Duncan Boldy of the Centre for Research into Disability and Society, School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Curtin University. The Project Officer is Doctor Setareh Ghahari.

Hope has been appointed to the North Metro Public Health and Ambulatory Care Executive management group as a community representative. She attended her first meeting of the group this week.

Hope has skills and expertise in public health, being awarded her Masters in 2008, and is committed to the social model of health. She is also keen to see oral health become part of mainstream health instead of being an orphan.

Hope has been invited to the “Supporting Older Women who have experienced Domestic and Family Violence and Mistreatment forum” to be held on Friday 26 March, 2010 at City West Lotteries House, 2 Delhi Street, West Perth from 9.30 am – 12.00 noon.

The forum aims to bring together the Domestic and Family Violence and Aged Care Sectors to identify and support older women who have experienced or are experiencing abuse in their own homes and communities.

Guest speakers aim to up-date you with current research and data on Older Women who have experienced Domestic and Family Violence and Mistreatment, and engage with you as service providers, advocates and policy makers through group work to share good practice models and identify current gaps in service delivery for women who often become “invisible” from data from 45 years onwards and then reappear as “elder abuse” at the age of 65 and over.

Research shows that 1 in 4 women who have experienced an incident of physical violence in the past 12 months is aged 45 years and older (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2006).

For more information please contact Terri Aldridge or Janette Richardson on 9420 7264 or email info@womenscouncil.com.au

Hope has been invited to attend the State Workshop on Chronic Conditions Self Management – A consultation on how consumers can be supported more effectively to manage their chronic conditions. This event comes under the Consumers Health Forum of Australia “Chronic Conditions Self Management 2008-10 project”, funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing under the Australian Better Health Initiative.

Event: 8 December 2009 - State Workshop on Chronic Conditions Self Management

The draft document “Guidelines for Human Biobanks, Genetic Research Databases & Associated Data” (July 2009) is being prepared for release for public comment.

The Office of Population Health Genomics (Public Health Division) WA Health has been coordinating the development of guidelines which provide principles and best practices for the establishment, management and operation of research biobanks and DNA databases in WA. The guidelines have been developed for WA Health but are intended for use by both government and non-government research organisations in WA.

Hope received formal acknowledgement that she “has been involved in the stakeholder consultation process, contributing to the two community consultation events which informed the development of the guidelines … also gave a presentation on the consumer perspective. An acknowledgement has been included on pages x and xii that mention her by name.”

http://www.genomics.health.wa.gov.au/home/

Norman Swan on The Health Report on ABC Radio National, 10 August 2009, interviewed Anne McKenzie who is a consumer advocate in the School of Population Health at the University of Western Australia, Hope Alexander, a consumer member of their Research Advisory Panel, and Kos Sclavos, president of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia. The topic of discussion was “Labelling of medications dispensed by pharmacists”.

Labelling of medications dispensed by pharmacists

“Health consumer advocates have uncovered what they feel might be an unacceptable level of pharmacists dispensing medications with ‘use as directed’ or equivalent on the label. They argue that this is dangerous and should not happen.”

The Health Report transcript can be read here:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2009/2647591.htm

The Health Report transcript can be listened to here:
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2009/08/hrt_20090810_0841.mp3