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Detention Harms Health – student march for refugees report

Editor: Jennifer DoggettAuthor: Input from AMSA, RACP and Tweeterson: April 11, 2018In: asylum seeker and refugee health, Global health and climate change

On April 7th, the Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) held a student march for refugees in protest of Australia’s ongoing policy of mandatory, offshore detention in Manus Island... Read more

Medical students taking action on Australia’s humanitarian crisis

Editor: Dr Ruth ArmstrongAuthor: RJ Seastreson: April 05, 2018In: asylum seeker and refugee health, health and medical education, human rights, public health

RJ Seastres writes: AMSA Crossing Borders, the Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) Global Health Project advocating for refugee and asylum seeker health, in conjunction with NSW... Read more

‘A vulnerable population abandoned’: UNHCR doctors condemn Manus

Editor: Amy CoopesAuthor: Amy Coopeson: November 29, 2017In: asylum seeker and refugee health

The UNHCR’s Senior Mental Health Officer and an Australian doctor who has spent time on Manus Island have penned a damning letter on the PNG facility’s “corrosive” co... Read more

Leading medical experts call for intervention in the humanitarian crisis on Manus Island

Editor: Melissa SweetAuthor: Melissa Sweeton: November 27, 2017In: asylum seeker and refugee health, human rights

Senior members of Australia’s medical establishment have signed an open letter to the nation’s Parliament sounding the alarm about health conditions for asylum seekers and refuge... Read more

Do you have the PM’s phone number? #Manus

Editor: Melissa SweetAuthor: Via Twitteron: November 23, 2017In: asylum seeker and refugee health, human rights

As news breaks of a police operation now underway on Manus Island, here is a suggestion from one of our Croakey editors, Marie McInerney. See also this call from former Australians of... Read more

The Health Wrap: Air pollution public health crisis; dialysis distress; STI spike makes headlines

Editor: Megan HoweAuthor: Megan Howeon: November 17, 2017In: air pollution, climate change, global health, Global health and climate change, Indigenous health, infectious diseases, non communicable diseases, Public health and population health, rural and remote health, sexual health, The Health Wrap

This fortnight’s Health Wrap, compiled by Sax Institute Publications Manager Megan Howe, takes a look at how the media covered three of the top public health stories that have been making he... Read more