Ten lessons the prevention community can take from Australia’s COVID-19 response
Ahead of a looming 19 April deadline for submissions on the draft National Preventive Health Strateg... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: As the slow rollout of Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination program draws intense scrutiny, public health experts have warned that the global spread of new variants of the n... Read more
As the 30th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody approaches (15 April), the health, social and justice sectors are encouraged to engage respectfully with the longstand... Read more
To mark World Health Day, Croakey’s Melissa Sweet digs into a report investigating tobacco industry efforts to undermine public health regulations globally. Many of the report’s themes are relev... Read more
A new report investigating how racism and colonialism shape the climate crisis and climate action is featured in the latest wrap of environmental news by public health expert Dr Peter Sainsbury. His c... Read more
Professor Bronwyn Fredericks, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) at The University of Queensland, has urged Australian organisations, institutions and individuals to make submissions to the F... Read more
Overdiagnosis and overtreatment are major issues in Australia and globally, as has been highlighted in Croakey’s TOO MUCH of a Good Thing series, published as a collaboration between Wiser Healt... Read more
In his latest Out of the Box column, emergency medicine specialist Dr Simon Judkins introduces readers to some of the people and organisations providing leadership on climate action within health syst... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: As community leaders raise concerns that Federal Government education campaigns are “not cutting through” COVID vaccine misinformation, a new report has found that... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been beset by delays, strategic stumbles, and overly optimistic political messaging, according to a leading health policy analys... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The devastation wrought by flooding in communities throughout New South Wales and in Queensland last week was front page news in the early days. This week? Not so much. But th... Read more
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