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A/PROF HARRY MINAS



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Organization: Population Health
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR (CIMH)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Medical Science University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1975
Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1975
Diploma Psychology.Medicine University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1985
Fellow RANZCP University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1985

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) 31-Dec-1985

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Food, fear and self-neglect: repatriation and the health and wellbeing of East Timorese asylum seekers Chief Investigator VIC HEALTH Public Health PhD Research Scholarships (VIC HEALTH PROMOTION FOUNDATION) 28/02/2003
DEVELOPMENT OF SUICIDE FIRST AID GUIDELINES FOR ASIAN SUBJECTS Chief Investigator AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION Pilot Grants 02/05/2008
Research Practice Leader in Mental Health Promotion Chief Investigator VIC HEALTH PROMOTION FOUNDATION Research Practice Leader in Mental Health Promotion 27/06/2008
IMPACT OF A COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM STRENGTHENING PROGRAM IN ACEH, INDONESIA Chief Investigator AUSAID Australian Development Research Awards 01/02/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
NON-RESEARCH AGREEMENT - 2006-2007 AUSTRALIAN MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM Chief Investigator ELI LILLY AUST PTY LTD 01/07/2006

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Books

  • Access to mental health services in Victoria: A focus on ethnic communities
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit(Fitzroy)
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Journal Articles

Major Reference Works

  • International Encyclopedia of Public Health:Mental Health Etiology: Social Determinants
    Year: 2008
    Reference Work Title: International Encyclopedia of Public Health
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Treatment and rehabilitation skills


    Year: 2007
    Book: Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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  • Assessment: Essential skills
    Year: 2007
    Book: Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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  • Case Management
    Year: 2007
    Book: Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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  • Culture and Human Rights
    Year: 2007
    Book: Fear of persecution: global human rights, international law and human well-being
    Publisher: Lexington Books(Lanham)
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  • Developing mental health services for multicultural societies
    Year: 2007
    Book: Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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  • The active participants in mental health services
    Year: 2007
    Book: Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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  • Transcultural and refugee psychiatry
    Year: 2007
    Book: Foundations of clinical psychiatry
    Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing(Parkville)
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Journal Articles

  • Chinese-Australians' Knowledge of Depression and Schizophrenia in the Context of their Under-Utilization of Mental Health Care:  An Analysis of Labelling
    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Journal of Social Psychiatry
    Volume: 53
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 464-479
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  • Depression in multicultural Australia: Policies, research and services
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 16
    Page numbers: 11
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  • Illness causal beliefs in Turkish immigrants
    Year: 2007
    Journal: BMC Psychiatry
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 34
    Page numbers: 1-10
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  • Mental health and global movement of people
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 370
    Issue: 9593
    Page numbers: 1109-1111
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  • Scale up services for mental disorders: a call for action
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 370
    Page numbers: 1241-1252
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  • Why focus on mental health systems?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Journal of Mental Health Systems
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-4
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Cultural attribution of mental health suffering in Chinese societies: the views of Chinese paients with mental illness and their caregivers
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Nursing
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 998-1006
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  • Ethnic Minority community patients and the better outcomes in mental health care initiative
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australasian Psychiatry
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 212-215
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  • Folk concepts of mental disorders among Chinese-Australian patients and their caregivers
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Advanced Nursing
    Volume: 55
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 58-67
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  • Mental Health Research, Ethics and Multiculturalism
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Monash Bioethics Review
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 53-63
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  • Pathways to the first contact with specialist mental health care
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 347-54
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Reports

  • Guidelines for working effectively with interpreters in mental health settings
    Year: 2006
    Customer: Mental Health Branch
    Publisher: Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit(Fitzroy)
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  • Improving the qulaity of mental health interpeting in Victoria
    Year: 2006
    Customer: Victorian Office of Multicultural Affairs
    Publisher: Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit(Fitzroy)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Impact of Australia's 'Better Ourcomes in Mental health Care' initiative in Melbourne
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Primary Care Mental Health
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 2005
    Page numbers: 111-121
    Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing(Abigdon)
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  • Leadership for change in complex systems
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australasian Psychiatry
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 33-39
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Asia
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  • Mental Health Research in General Practice
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australasian Psychiatry
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 181-184
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Asia
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  • Quality, risk management and governance in mental health: An overview
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australasian Psychiatry
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 16-20
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Asia
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  • Reflections on clinician leadership and management in mental health
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australasian Psychiatry
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 27-32
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Asia
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  • The effect of a Clinical Posting in Psychiatry on the Attitudes of Medical Students Towards Psychiatry and Mental Illness in a Malaysian Medical School
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Academy of Medicine, Singapore - Annals
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 305-310
    Publisher: Academy of Medicine Singapore
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • A case study in the globalization of medical education: assisting overseas-born students at the University of Melbourne
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Medical Teacher
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 150-159
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing(Basingstoke)
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  • Brief functional English proficiency measure for health survey research
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Psychologist
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 154-165
    Publisher: Australian Psychological Society
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  • Depression and anxiety: a comparison of older-aged Greek-born immigrants and Anglo-Australians
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 714-724
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Detention and deception: Limits of ethical acceptability in detention research
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Monash Bioethics Review
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 69-77
    Publisher: Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics(Melbourne)
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Computer Software Products

  • International Mental Health Leadership Program
    Year: 2004
    Version:: 1
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Audio Visual Recordings

    Publications in 2003

    Journal Articles

    • A case study in the globalisation of medical education: Assisting overseas-born students at the University of Melbourne
      Year: 2003
      Journal: Medical Teacher
      Volume: 26
      Issue: 2
      Page numbers: 1-10
      Publisher: Carfax Publishing(Basingstoke)
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    Publications in 2002

    Journal Articles

    • The mental health of immigrant and refugee children and adolescents.
      Year: 2002
      Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
      Volume: 177
      Issue: 8
      Page numbers: 404-405
      Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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    Publications in 2001

    Books

    • Efficient, Equity-Oriented Strategies for Health Internatinal Perspectives - Focus on Vietnam
      Year: 2001
      Publisher: CIMH Melbourne(Melbourne)
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    Book Chapters

    • Assessment: Essential Skills
      Year: 2001
      Book: Mental Health In Australia - Collaborative Community Practice
      Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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    • Migration, equity and health
      Year: 2001
      Book: International Co-operation in Health
      Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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    • Service Responses to cultural diversity
      Year: 2001
      Book: Textbook of Community Psychiatry
      Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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    • Transcultural and Refugee Psychiatry
      Year: 2001
      Book: Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry
      Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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    Journal Articles

    • Acculturation and dental health among Vietnamese living in Melbourne, Australia
      Year: 2001
      Journal: Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
      Volume: 29
      Page numbers: 107 - 119
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    • Impact of Illness Scale: Reliability, Validity, and Cross-Cultural Utility
      Year: 2001
      Journal: Comprehensive Psychiatry
      Volume: 42
      Issue: 5
      Page numbers: 416 - 423
      Publisher: WB Saunders Co(Pennsylvania)
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    • Oral health among Vietnamese using a community health centre in Richmond, Victoria
      Year: 2001
      Journal: Australian Dental Journal
      Volume: 46
      Issue: 3
      Page numbers: 208-215
      Publisher: Australian Dental Association(Sydney)
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