Congratulations to Centre for Applied Health Economics staff members, Professor Paul Scuffham and Professor Shu-Kay Ng, who are also part of the Cancer Survivorship Collaborative Research Group, for their recent Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Award in the "Research Group or Team" category. The annual Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Awards celebrate the University's research achievements and acknowledges the achievements of outstanding individual researchers and research groups.

Cancer Survivorship Collaborative team members include Professor Suzanne Chambers, Professor Tamara Ownsworth, Associate Professor Stefano Occhipinti, Professor Paul Scuffham, Professor Shu-Kay (Angus) Ng and Professor David Shum, Menzies Health Institute Queensland.

https://app.secure.griffith.edu.au/news/2018/06/18/outstanding-griffith-research-excellence-honoured/

https://healthcheck.griffith.edu.au/health-excels-at-the-vice-chancellors-research-excellence-awards/

This recently published article on coaching patients has been made into a YouTube video by The American Journal of Medicine.

This article, "Coaching Patients Saves Lives and Money" written by Josh Byrnes, Thomas Elliott, Margarite Vale, Michael Jelinek and Paul Scuffham, shows the benefits of the COACH Program which is the only disease management program to show that coaching focused on closing the treatment gap has significantly reduced mortality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSSrgU3D01w

Congratulations to Professor Paul Scuffham and Dr Haitham Tuffaha for their recent publication in MJA InSight:

http://www.doctorportal.com.au/mjainsight/2017/6/setting-mrff-priorities-assessing-the-value-of-research/

Congratulations to Dr Sanjeewa Kularatna (MHIQ, CAHE at Griffith University) and Dr Peter Arrow (University of Adelaide) for being awarded an NHMRC grant on "Minimally invasive approach to manage early childhood caries in Aboriginal preschoolers" (APP1121982) for the value of $1,488,220.