2024 Coates Oration
Information on this year's Oration will be provided as soon as available. See below details of how to contact the Trust to ensure you recieve the information by email.
Barwon South West Region Nursing Scholarships 2025
Appilcation forms and guidelines for the next round of Rural Emergency Nursing Scholarships for 2025 are now available from the Dept. of Health Program Advisor. This year, the scholarship are available for registered nurses in the Barwon South West region which covers Geelong and the south west of Victoria. Applications are due by 30 September 2024, with interviews conducted with short-listed candidates in October/November. Candidates are advised in December with funds for 2025 course enrolments provided from January 2025 onwards. See the Scholarships page for contact details to request an application and the guidelines.
2024 Lunch with Speaker - Anne Tudor OAM
On Wednesday, May 29 at 12.00 noon, well known Ballarat-based Dementia Awareness advocate, Anne Tudor OAM addressed the Coates Trust at its Lunch with Speaker function.
ANNE T TUDOR OAM
 Anne Tudor OAM, and with her wife, Edie Mayhew contributed locally, nationally and internationally to increasing dementia awareness and understanding about the importance of inclusion, empathy and service provision in the community.
Edie was diagnosed at age 59 in 2010 and died from complications related to dementia in 2020.
They were partners for 36 years. Anne’s mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and Vascular dementia in the late 80’s and died in 2005, the same year Edie first started showing signs of memory loss. They moved to Ballarat in 1992 to support Anne’s parents.
Their advocacy began in 2011 and included local, national and international presentations of their personal journey with dementia, to support others impacted by dementia and to provide community education, through social media, film making, print, radio and TV interviews. They wanted to offer an honest and balanced view of dementia and challenge the stigma and discrimination associated with it.
Anne was a secondary school teacher for 20 years before embarking on studies to qualify as a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. She worked at Ballarat Health Services for 10 years as well as in private practice. She retired in 2014 to focus on Edie and their advocacy.
Anne and Edie received the Outstanding Achievement by a Volunteer: Supporting Diversity, at the Minister for Health Awards in 2016 and was the recipient of the Mayor’s Ballarat Senior of the Year Award in 2017. She was also awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia and the Premiers Victorian Senior of the Year in 2021. In 2023 she received the Zonta Award as one of Ballarat’s Great Women and was honoured with a Damascus College Shining Light Award for her service to our community this year.
2023 Coates Oration
Associate Professor Misty Jenkins AO presented the 2023 Oration on Thursday, November 9 at Federation University Australia's Mount Helen Campus, Ballarat. The Oration was entitled: The power of the immune system: From humble beginnings to personalised approaches to treating cancer.
Dr. Misty Jenkins AO is an NHMRC fellow and laboratory head in the Immunology Division at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research. Misty leads the immunotherapy program within the Brain Cancer Centre and is dedicated to discovering novel immunotherapy targets for high-grade gliomas in adults and children. Her research focuses on developing novel chimeric antigen receptor T cells for brain cancer. Her group also uses cutting-edge two-photon microscopy combined with mouse models of brain cancer to investigate the tumour microenvironment and uncover the unique biology of brain tumours.
Misty has a PhD in Immunology from The University of Melbourne, followed by postdoctoral positions at The Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
Prof Jenkins was awarded the L’Oreal for Women in Science Fellowship (2013), was Tall Poppy of the Year (2015), was awarded the Top100 Women of Influence award (2016), and was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2020.
In addition to her research career, Prof Jenkins is experienced in governance and strategy as a company Director, co-chairs a Federal Health Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), and is a passionate advocate for gender equity and Indigenous Health and education.
Sir Albert Coates Oration 2023
The Trust will be arranging a link to the 2023 Oration. Watch this space for details.
Text of the 2022 Coates Oration
LINK For the FULL TEXT of the 2022 Coates Oration by Laureate Prof. Peter Doherty.
 Click Here for the full text of the 2022 Oration
MENTOR Newsletter
The Autumn 2024 issue of the Mentor newsletter has been sent to all on our mailing and email lists. If you would like to be emailed a copy don't hesitate to get in touch with the Coates Trust. Details are provided below or on our contact page. To read earlier newsletters go to the Publications page for the link.
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