Leading Indigenous academic Professor Kerry Arabena warned she was going to be provocative in her keynote presentation at this week’s Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) conference... Read more
Marie McInerney reports: Cairns-based obstetrician and gynaecologist Professor Caroline de Costa was last night named the recipient of the 2013 Sidney Sax Public Health Award, bestowed by th... Read more
Former Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon was guest speaker at the Public Health Association of Australia conference dinner in Melbourne last night, and had plenty of practical advice for... Read more
Marie McInerney reports from the the 42nd Annual Conference of the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA): The head of the international public health organisation has called on the A... Read more
Marie McInerney reports from the the 42nd Annual Conference of the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA): We’ve got the evidence. So how do we achieve change? “Look to what has... Read more
Why don’t Australians get outraged about cuts to public health services? How can the public health sector engage better with the community and citizen groups so they understand and care pass... Read more
The 42nd Annual Conference of the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) will be held in Melbourne next week, with the theme: A ‘fair go’ for health: tackling physical, social and psy... Read more
If you were a benevolent dictator with $12 billion to splurge on fixing the healthcare system (the equivalent of Queensland’s health budget), what would be the fairest and best way of spendi... Read more
How can the $120 billion that we spend on healthcare be invested in a way that gets the best and fairest returns for our health? The Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI)... Read more
This is Croakey’s final post from the NACCHO Summit, and it features the work of HITnet, which has 70 interactive kiosks across the country providing on-screen health information for A... Read more
