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Associate Professor Turner, Coordinator of Research and Higher Degrees in the School of Nursing, leaves in November to work with Harvard Medical experts in Boston to learn about conducting long term health studies.Her American colleagues' are experts in such studies having started the Nurses Health Study in 1976 - which has collected valuable information from more than 238,000 nurses and is acclaimed as one of the most important studies on the health of women.
Associate Professor Turner, 42, from Albany Creek said her own study aimed to collect information about workforce factors that affected nursing recruitment and retention as well as their physical and mental health.
Dr Whiteman is a Senior Research Fellow with the Cancer and Population Studies Group at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.
He is also a UQ graduate and Adjunct Associate Professor with UQ's School of Population Health.
The 40-year-ol...
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