In this edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell reports on important pandemic publications, extols the benefits of physical activity and high quality primary care, and... Read more
Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton has called on health leaders to be “open to new data and new science” in the fight against COVID-19 and other looming existential threa... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The need for inspired and inspiring leadership, to shift power dynamics, have trauma-informed care, and understand the exhaustion of many health workers and leaders... Read more
The $2.3 billion commitment to mental health in last week’s Federal Budget has been widely welcomed as a major step towards fixing Australia’s broken mental health system but the task ahead... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: A significant new report — COVID-19: Make it the last pandemic — has blamed a “toxic cocktail” of failures, errors and inequalities that have turned the... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The “shocking global disparity” in access to vaccines remains one of the biggest risks to ending the pandemic, the World Health Organization’s Director-G... Read more
Reducing the COVID-19 risk to community members, especially vulnerable Elders and people with multiple health issues, was a big focus through the pandemic for the Walgett Aboriginal Medical... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The use of external consultants by the Commonwealth public service has been increasing steadily for the past decade from $386 million in 2012-13 to $700 million in 2... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The recent National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Eye Health Conference (NATSIEHC) 2021 — The Gap and Beyond, had a welcome and critical focus on community-l... Read more
Pressure is growing on the Australian Government to both support and accelerate the temporary waiver under international law of the intellectual property rules governing vaccine patents afte... Read more
