Introduction by Croakey: Global health specialists have been warning for decades that we were at risk of a devastating global pandemic and would likely fail to manage it. Now here we are liv... Read more
In this latest edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell takes readers on a journey from the National Press Club in Canberra to a tour of the Pacific region and the Demo... Read more
The Health Wrap is back for 2019! As a way of easing readers back into work I thought I would do a round up of what happened while you were on holidays. A good place to start is with a [...] Read more
Climate change, its antecedents and sequelae have been nominated as the globe’s top threat in 2019 by both the World Health Organisation and the World Economic Forum, with the latter w... Read more
As disasters escalate within Australia, our region, and globally, how prepared are our health systems to cope, and what challenges might we face? These were recurring questions at the annual... Read more
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to medical regulation, and models need to accommodate local cultural, economic and health system differences, according to speakers yesterday at the 12... Read more
The world’s most lethal infectious disease threatens a comeback While over 11,000 people have died from Ebola virus disease during the most recent epidemic in West Africa, 1.5 million people... Read more
The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa barely touched Australia but, when a possible case arose in Queensland, health authorities reassured the public that we were “well equipped to contain... Read more
This week’s Health Wrap is compiled by my colleague Megan Howe, the Sax Institute’s Publications Manager. Enjoy the Wrap and tweet us... Read more
This week’s Health Wrap is compiled by my colleague Megan Howe, the Sax Institute’s Publications Manager. Enjoy the Wrap and twe... Read more
