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ALSWH Steering Committee

Professor Julie Byles
 BMed PhD

 

Professor Julie Byles is Director of the Research Centre for Gender, Health and Ageing - a Priority Research Centre at the University of Newcastle, and co-Director of the Newcastle Institute of Public Health. As a clinical epidemiologist, Professor Byles has interests and expertise in risk determination, assessment, screening and diagnostic tests, other health care evaluation, and measurement of health outcomes. As a Gerontologist, Professor Byles’ research interests in ageing include the role of health services, preventive activities, and treatments in maintaining quality of life for older people, and in determining physical, psychological and social factors associated with optimal physical and mental health of men and women as they age. Her recent work has focussed on health assessment, medications used by older people, sleep disturbance, health effects of alcohol for older women, nutrition screening and interventions, health and retirement, and prevention of falls in residential care.

Professor Byles is co-director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health; her main interest is in the oldest cohort, which involves around 10,000 women who were aged 70 to 75 years at baseline in 1996. She is also closely involved with the NSW 45 and Up Study, a longitudinal study that aims to recruit 250,000 men and women across New South Wales, as a member of the Scientific Steering Committee and leader of the Mental Health Theme Committee. She was the lead investigator on the Department of Veterans’ Affairs' Preventive Care Trial - a ten-centre randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of health assessments for older Australian veterans and war widows, and she was a member of the research team for the Study of Health Outcomes in Aircraft Maintenance Personnel (SHOAMP).

Professor Byles is a member of the ARC Ageing Well Network, and is a lead investigator on three large collaborative NHMRC grants to combine data from several Australian longitudinal studies of ageing. She contributes to government and non-government programs relating to ageing research and health care for older persons (eg. Membership of NHMRC Working Party on Ageing Research, Membership of Planning reference Group for “2020: A vision for Aged Care in Australia”, Membership of the Continence Management Advisory Committee and Community Aged Care Continence Research Project Steering Committee). Her work in ageing research was highlighted by the Australian Academy of Science, when she was nominated to speak at their forum “Australia’s Science Future” on the potential for an Older Healthier Australia, and by the Australian Epidemiology Association when she was invited to deliver the 2005 Ian Prior Oration on “Longitudinal Studies of Ageing: Past, Present, and Future”.


To contact Julie:
Professor Julie Byles
Women's Health Australia
Research Centre for Gender, Health & Ageing
University of Newcastle
University Drive
Callaghan NSW 2308
Australia

Phone: +61 2 4913 8643, +61 2 4913 8321 or +61 2 4913 8142
Fax: +61 2 4923 6148
Email: julie.byles@newcastle.edu.au

 
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