This is the first of two sessions bringing together researchers from the “Cancer Culture” project led by the University of Melbourne and Cancer Council Victoria, funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, with collaborators from Deakin and Flinders Universities.
Speakers will report on new methodologies and early findings which are helping to understand the connection between medical research, advocacy, government policy and behavioural change. In this webinar, we will hear about the following topics:
Prof Moodie brings a unique perspective to this project as a scholar and a public health expert with extensive experience in policymaking and advocacy at local, state, national and international levels, especially in tobacco control and the prevention of skin cancers. He has had a distinguished international career that includes being VicHealth CEO (1998-2007), the world’s first health promotion foundation based on a dedicated tobacco tax; chairing the National Preventative Health Taskforce (2008-11); working in refugee health care in Africa and indigenous health in Central Australia (1982-88)' and on HIV prevention at WHO’s Global Programme on AIDS.
Prof Varnava has authored four monographs: Assassination in Colonial Cyprus in 1934 and the Origins of EOKA (Anthem Press, 2021); British Cyprus and the Long Great War, 1914-1925: Empire, Loyalties and Democratic Deficit (Routledge, 2020); Serving the Empire in the Great War: The Cypriot Mule Corps, Imperial Loyalty and Silenced Memory (Manchester University Press, 2017); and British Imperialism in Cyprus, 1878-1915: The Inconsequential Possession (Manchester University Press, 2009). He has edited/co-edited 14 collections, most recently: New Perspectives on the Greek War of Independence: Myths, Realities, Legacies and Reflections (Palgrave, 2022); Exiting War: The British Empire and the 1918-20 Moment (Manchester University Press, 2022); After the Armistice: Empire, Endgame and Aftermath (Routledge, 2021); Comic Empires: The Imperialism of Cartoons, Caricature and Satirical Art (Manchester University Press, 2019). He has published over 60 articles/chapters, including in English Historical Review (2017), The Historical Journal (2014), Journal of Modern History (2018), Historical Research (2014, 2017, 2022), Contemporary British History (2019), Social History of Medicine (2020), International History Review (2021), Immigrants and Minorities (2022), and Australian Historical Studies (2024).
Dr Holbrook's latest book, Lessons from History: Leading Historians Tackle Australia's Greatest Challenges (NewSouth), edited with Lyndon Megarrity and David Lowe, was published in July 2022. Previously, she has written about how we remember the First World War in Anzac: The Unauthorised Biography (New South, 2014) and The Great War: Aftermath and Commemoration (UNSW Press, 2019), the latter edited with Keir Reeves.
Tom is a lead industry-based investigator on the Australian Research Council Linkage grant ‘Cancer Culture’ (2022-2025) led by Professor Andrew May, which explores the history of public health campaigns to control tobacco and skin cancer in Australia. He has far-reaching research interests in governance and institutions, and has published two monographs, The Art of Occupation (Ohio University Press, 2019) and Cancer Data for Good (Palgrave, 2022), and two edited collections with Bloomsbury (2020) and Emerald (2021). He has also published in a range of high-ranking journals, including the Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2016), Business History (2019), Social Science History (2020), the European Journal of Criminology (2022), and most recently Health Promotion International (2023).
