Videos: recommended public health viewing

2025 Archive

Launching the Croakey Update

2024 Archive

#CroakeyLIVE #HealthEquityHeroes webinar 9th December 2024

Professor Ron Labonté | Transforming Capitalism’s Existential Health Threats

Grow Your Own 2024 | Press Conference

How can we afford the healthcare system of our dreams?

Fast Forward from Fossil Fuels

The Future of Decision Making - Nobel Prize Dialogue Sydney 2024

Making sense of the United States election with Bruce Wolpe

Duty of care in a changing climate

#CroakeyLIVE #VoiceMatters webinar 16th September 2024

Core Values of General Practice

#CroakeyLIVE #BetterCare Webinar 13 August, 2024

National Allyship Summit 2024

Global Virus Network's Panel Discussion on Pandemic Flu Strain Mitigation: 30 July 2024

Kick Big Soda Out - Sign the petition

Surgeon General’s Advisory on Firearm Violence | June 25, 2024

Ancestors Fires – NAIDOC Week

#CroakeyLIVE discussion on improving healthcare in prisons

CATSINaM Nurses and Midwives International 2024

GLA:D Australia - Best treatment for hip and knee arthritis

Climate Council – 'Seize the Decade' Webinar

WFPHA – Global Public Health Week 2024 presentation

e-Learning Module 1: Cancer overview and factors impacting health inequalities

Gayaa Dhuwi webinar: The Voice - where to from here?

'Breathtaking' – new three-part drama following NHS medics during the Covid-19 pandemic

Every vape is a hit to your health – Real people – Lung damage

Governing the Commercial Determinants of Health: Policy, Accountability and Trust

2023 Archive

2023 Burnet Oration: Dr Ziyad Al-Aly

Press Briefing: How to Safeguard Against Mis-/Disinformation at COP28

The Promise of Planetary Health

Chris Packham: We're precipitating a mass extermination event

Press Briefing: The Ever-Shifting Landscape Of Climate Misinformation

Health in a Changing Climate Jessica Szwarcbord, Senior Policy Advisor, Lowitja Institute

Fran Baum delivers the Annual Annual David Sanders Lecture in Public Health and Social Justice

See through the haze

Healthy NDC Scorecard Media Briefing, 15 May 2023.

Can a Wellbeing Economy Deliver? | John Menadue Oration by Sophie Howe

Effect of Climate Change on Manual Laborers

Food waste recovery partnership: A community-based health care story

Health for all: 75 years of improving public health

IPCC Synthesis Press Conference (20 March 2023)

Food Is Free Inc. Green Space Ballarat - An Introduction

The 2023 Lancet Series on Breastfeeding

[English] 2 min video - NORM : Increasing Mask Usage To Save Lives in the Developing World

Polly Hemming - What is Climate Integrity? | Climate Integrity Summit 2023

"One thing I would never do" - RMH ED and ICU team members tell us their stories

#VoiceForHealth Webinar – 9 October 2023

Webinar | Decolonising Global Health: from discourse to practice

2022 Archive

WCPH2023: Shaping the Future of Public Health (Dr. Rüdiger Krech, WHO)

Is it too late to save our planet's biodiversity? | Inside Story

IN FULL: Megan Davis & Pat Anderson AO, Address to the NPC on the Uluru Statement from the Heart

The 2022 Dr Charles Perkins Oration, delivered by Larissa Baldwin, CEO GetUp!

Committee report - food production and supply in NSW

UN Secretary General Strongest Ever Climate Warning

Dr Mike Ryan, EXD of WHO talks about transparency at the 2022 World Health Summit in Berlin

NT Acting Children's Commissioner calls for Don Dale closure #CloseDonDale

Seminar: Supporting systems approaches to accelerate progress on physical inactivity in Australia

The ‘Real Stories of Addiction’ campaign centres on people with lived experience sharing their stories.

Health Impacts, our climate and a way forward Higgins CAN August 18th

Barcelona Guitar Trio & Dance - Billie Jean (Homenaje a Paco de Lucía) New version

ACN 2022 Trailblazer Finalist - Dr Kate Holliday MACN

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day 2022

CHO Brett Sutton Ventilation Advice

Health and the treaty to stop fossil fuels

The James Webb Space Telescope just revealed our universe anew--the view is absolutely stunning

Uluru Statement from the Heart panel discussion

Matthew McConaughey Complete Remarks at White House Press Briefing

Lowitja Institute - KT & Coffee: COVID-19 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations - update & future priorities

PHAA - Vote for Public Health - prevention and tobacco control

Curtin Climate and Health Forum

Is This Grace?

Vote For Public Health - Centre for Disease Control & Prevention - 2022 Federal Election Campaign

Vote For Public Health - Healthy democracy and public policy making - 2022 Federal Election Campaign

2021 Archive

Paul Kelly - How To Make Gravy (2021 Version)

Scrub Choir Plus - What a Wonderful World/ Stand by Me

Introducing the First Nations Clean Energy Network

Homecoming - Indonesian Indigenous Youth Return to the Community

Mary Robinson, Chair of The Elders slams Saudi Arabia for blocking #COP26

Climate activist Elizabeth Wathuti's full speech at COP26

Indigenous activist India Logan-Riley's full speech at COP26

Dr Bari Phatarfod is a Sydney GP and the Founder and President of Doctors for Refugees

Professor Lesley Hughes asks: Climate change: how worried should we be? - AIHI Webinar August 2021

Ed Yong: COVID Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future

Lisa Mumbin OAM, Chair of the Jawoyn Association Aboriginal Corporation, along with staff of the Jawoyn Association, speak out for "Get The Jab. This film was produced by the Northern Land Council's NLC-TV YouTube channel and the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the NT

Family create supermarket at home for 87-year-old grandmother with dementia #210PCC

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