School of Population Health Humand Ethics Advisory Group
2012 Meeting Dates & Committee Members


Applications for ethics approval need to be submitted to the School of Population Heath Human Ethics Advisory Group (SPH-HEAG) for review in hard copy, in addition to being submitted in Themis.

For more information on submitting an application go to - Submitting an application.

SPH-HEAG meets on a regular basis. Meeting dates and submission deadlines are listed below (meetings and deadlines fall on a Friday unless stated otherwise below). Hard copies of applications must be submitted to the SPH-HEAG Administrator by 5:00pm on the day of the deadline to ensure review at the next SPH-HEAG meeting.

Meeting Dates

Meeting number
Meeting date
Meeting deadline (5:00pm)
1/2012
20th Jan
13th Jan
2/2012
3rd Feb
27th Jan
3/2012
17th Feb
10th Feb
4/2012
2nd Mar
24th Feb
5/2012
16th Mar
9th Mar
6/2012
30th Mar
23rd Mar
7/2012
13th Apr
Wed 4th Apr
8/2012
27th Apr
20th Apr
9/2012
11th May
4th May
10/2012
25th May
18th May
11/2012
8th Jun
1st Jun
12/2012
22nd Jun
15th Jun
13/2012
6th Jul
29th Jun
14/2012
20th Jul
13th Jul
15/2012
3rd Aug
27th Jul
16/2012
17th Aug
10th Aug
17/2012
31st Aug
24th Aug
18/2012
14th Sept
7th Sept
19/2012
28th Sept
21st Sept
20/2012
12th Oct
5th Oct
21/2012
26th Oct
19th Oct
22/2012
9th Nov
2nd Oct
23/2012
23rd Nov
16th Nov
24/2012
14th Dec
7th Dec

NOTE: Most applications are given a recommendation for approval by SPH-HEAG and need to be submitted to the Health Sciences Human Ethics Sub-Committee for final approval. Occasionally (based on the subject matter) the application may be approved by another of the HESC's. Dates for all HESC meetings are available from http://www.research.unimelb.edu.au/humanethics/quicklinks/hescsmeet.

Committee Members

Dr Carmel Apicella
Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology

Dr Frank Armer
External member

Dr Lisa Brophy
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics

Dr Richard Chenhall
Centre for Health and Society

Dr Andrea de Silva-Sanigorski
McCaughey Centre

Prof Lyle Gurrin (Deputy Chair)
Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology

Dr Celia Kemp
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics

Dr Yin Paradies
McCaughey Centre

Dr Kevin Rowley
Centre for Health and Society   

Professor David Studdert (Chair)
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics

Richard Mohr (Executive Officer)
School of Population Health