Register to attend the webinar on: “Preventing falls among older people” hosted by the World Health Organization and Monash University Accident Research Centre.
When: Thursday 14th April 2022 – 15:00-17:00 AEST (+10 GMT)
To register: https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yTQu4PFZQ_q4tdPR1yjUkAA
Wednesday 16th March 2022 (12pm-1pm Sydney time).
Professor Terry Haines, Monash University
“The Stepped-Wedge, Cluster-Randomized Trial: Enabling Change while Generating Evidence”
Zoom link (12-1pm) https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/89843309774
Prof Terry Haines, CRE Chief Investigator
Head of School, School of Primary and Allied Health Care at Monash University. This follows his previous appointment as Director of Monash Health & Monash University Allied Health Research Unit, Monash Health. He has pursued work in the areas of falls prevention, implementation science and translation of evidence into policy and practice.
http:// https://www.monash.edu/medicine/spahc/about-us/school-staff/thaines
The 14th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion will be held from 27-30 November 2022 in Adelaide, Australia. Hosted by the Public Health Association of Australia and Co-Sponsored by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Safety 2022 aims to bring together the global injury prevention community to continue the successful world conferences highlighting the important research, work and advocacy in injury prevention and safety promotion.
For more information and to register click here.
Call for Abstracts – NOW OPEN
Call for abstracts for the hybrid Safety 2022 Conference are now open, for more information CLICK HERE
Save the date for a networking event to launch the 2021 ANZFPS Conference and kick off plans for hosting the 2022 conference in Perth. More details to come.
Save The Date_WA Falls Networking Function
Contact: anne-marie.hill@curtin.edu.au
ANZFPS will be holding some face-to-face workshops on Monday 29 November 2021 at the University of Auckland prior to the virtual conference. All workshops are three hours of teaching plus a break for morning or afternoon tea. 
Save the date – Monday 29th November 2021
At Neuroscience Research Australia, Randwick, Sydney
The NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence – Prevention of Falls Injuries is holding a special online event to launch the CRE.
Join the CRE for multidisciplinary evidence-based perspectives on what more needs to be done to prevent falls. Speakers include Prof Stephen Lord (Chair), Hon Pru Goward, Prof Cathie Sherrington, Prof Jacqui CLose, Prof Vasi Naganathan, Prof Maria Crotty, Prof Julie Byles and Mr Matt Jennings.
The ANZFPS is pleased to announce that the 9th Biennial Australia and New Zealand Falls Prevention Conference is going online!
Our new conference dates are 1 – 3 December 2021 (NZDT).
We have engaged a state-of-the-art virtual conferencing platform that will bring everything you’ve come to expect from ANZFPS conferences. You’ll be able to network with fellow delegates, participate in discussion groups, live Q&As and more.
Our theme remains ‘Live Stronger For Longer’; a call to action to stay healthy and active in later life.
For those that love to gather, face to face pre-conference workshops will be held on 29th November in Auckland and in other locations in Australia with dates and locations to be confirmed.
As planning continues, we will communicate all updates via our conference website and you can sign up to receive email updates here.
With the ever-evolving Covid-19 situation, ANZFPS made the difficult decision to postpone our 2020 conference.
We are pleased to announce that we will continue to host the conference in Auckland in the same venue – the University of Auckland’s Owen G Glenn building.
Save the date for:
We will be keeping the submission portal open and any abstract that has already been submitted will be considered for the 2021 conference.
If you would like to withdraw your submission, please email amanda.wallace@auckland.ac.nz.
We hope you’ll be able to join us in December!
When: Thursday 17th December 2020
Time: 0800 – 0900 AEDT
Where: Zoom webinar
The webinar link will be emailed to registered attendees on Monday 14th December 2020. Please note that you can register even if unable to attend on the day to receive a link to the recording of the webinar.
A link to the study abstract is provided here.