Category: Australian Centre for Disease Control & Prevention
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Australian CDC is an opportunity for Labor’s prevention legacy to endure
Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin, CEO, Public Health Association of Australia In 2006 then Shadow Minister for Health Julia Gillard gave a landmark address to the National Press Club of Australia (NPC) where she outlined Labor’s vision and commitment to prevention in Australia. 17 years later, the Australian Labor Party could…
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Chief Medical Officer on what the Australian CDC will and won’t do
Public Health Association of Australia Professor Paul Kelly, Chief Medical Officer of the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care, has given a progress update to the public health community on the forthcoming Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC). He spoke during the Opening Plenary session of the Communicable Diseases…
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Federal Budget updates on the Australian CDC
PHAA Just over $90 million has been allocated (Budget Paper 2, p.131) over two years to the establishment of the Australian Centre for Disease Control (ACDC), according to the Budget papers published last night, Tuesday 9 May 2023. The Government plans to operate an interim ACDC from 1 January 2024,…
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‘Don’t file it away’: Acting on the National Preventive Health Strategy will mean fewer people get sick
Melanie Parker, Public Health Association of Australia Clearly, unless change occurs soon, Australia will soon be facing an overwhelming chronic disease crisis. That warning, was emphasised in a new Grattan Institute report released on 13 February, which noted the concerning effects it will have on our already-strained health system and…
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Riffing on Australia’s major public health issue in 2023, the ACDC: “Highway to Health” or a “Long way to the shop if you want disease control”?
Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin, PHAA CEO 2023 will be a key year in the birth of the Australian Centre for Disease Control (ACDC). Like the start of any life, evidence tells us that the first year or two is enormously influential on how that life will unfold for future…
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PHAA’s submission marks 30 years of advocating for a CDC
PHAA Policy and Advocacy Team After more than 30 years advocating for the establishment of an Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC), the PHAA team is celebrating the lodging of our submission today to the Australian Government addressing the questions outlined in the Role and Functions of an Australian Centre…
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PHAA’s submission on the Role and Functions of an Australian Centre for Disease Control discussion paper
Terry Slevin, PHAA CEO The PHAA has been a prominent advocate in seeking the establishment of the Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC) for more than 30 years. We welcome the commitment from the Albanese Government to put this essential piece of public health architecture in place. The rather hurried…
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$3.2 million announced for Australian CDC in October 2022-23 Budget
PHAA In line with their election promise to establish an Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC), the Australian Government has announced $3.2 million will be put toward designing the new entity. The October 2022-23 Budget (Budget paper 2, p.117) stated: “The design work will incorporate stakeholder consultations to ensure the…
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Where is One Health systems thinking in the Australian CDC planning?
Dr Andrea Britton, Dr Sandra Steele and Associate Professor Simon Reid, PHAA One Health Special Interest Group (SIG) committee members PHAA’s One Health SIG members recognise the importance of multisectoral and transdisciplinary approaches, using systems thinking, to optimize health and well-being. This includes mitigation of wicked public health challenges such…
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“A Plea for Inclusion” in an Australian Centre(s) for Disease Control
Martyn Jeggo on behalf of the former Chief Veterinary Officers (CVOs) Group. The present government has committed to the establishment of a national Centre for Disease Control (CDC) or Centres for Disease Control (CDCs). However, it has not yet determined the level of commitment, the timelines, the exact nature…
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Centre for Disease Control seen as key for tackling COVID and climate change
Introduction by Croakey: Last week’s decision by National Cabinet to end mandatory COVID-19 isolation and pandemic payments has sparked strong criticism from community and health groups concerned about the risk to some people. Many health leaders, community organisations and members of the public are concerned the decision will place additional strain…
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‘Who are we?’ Highlights from the Opening Plenary of Population Health Congress 2022
Melanie Parker, PHAA Renowned researchers, public health chiefs, population health students and professionals, and prominent politicians from across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand attended last week’s Population Health Congress 2022. Hosted in hybrid format by the Public Health Association of Australia, Australian Health Promotion Association, Australasian Epidemiological Association, and Australasian…
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What is Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and what does it have to do with disease control?
Matt Mason1, 4, Peta-Anne Zimmerman2, 4, Vanessa Sparke3, 4 As we navigate through the current COVID-19 pandemic, many health disciplines and professions are reflecting on our successes and failures in infectious disease prevention and control in Australia, and the role we have played in the larger region. This focus has…
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What we know so far on the Labor Government’s proposed ‘Australian Centre for Disease Control’
Melanie Parker, PHAA Communications Officer Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Sunday 21 August discussed why the government is establishing an Australian Centre for Disease Control. It follows comments he made earlier this month about the potential for a significant funding announcement for the Centre in the October Budget. The Public Health…
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Social science must be key component of future Australian Centres for Disease Control
Kerrie Wiley, Jane Frawley, Catherine King, Nicole Batten, Katie Attwell, Maryke Steffens and Julie Leask on behalf of the Collaboration on Social Science in Immunisation The Federal Labor government is committed to establishing what we’re calling an Australian Centres for Disease Control (ACDC)*. The Collaboration on Social Science in…
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Next steps to the design principles for an Australian Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
PHAA CEO, Adj Prof Terry Slevin The establishment of the Australian Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ACDPC) is the most important change in public health architecture in Australia for a generation. Our CDPC Corner has so far primarily focused on what the agency should include and prioritise. Here we’ll…
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Rethinking traditional structures: a proposal for an Australian Distributed Network for Disease Prevention and Control
Jane Heller and Richard Heller We support many of the ideas that others have posted on the CDPC Corner about the development of an Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC), a pre-election commitment made by the Australian Labor Party. Our contribution builds on these previous submissions by calling for this…
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Should ACDC go global?
Meru Sheel and Joel Negin The new government’s proposed Australian Centre for Disease Control (and Prevention) faces a daunting task coordinating across eight states and territories and providing national leadership. And yet, there is an important discussion required about adding a further, extremely complicated element of scope to the initiative:…
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Environmental health essential in an Australian CDC: Sophie Dwyer PSM
Sophie Dwyer One of the positive aspects of the conversation that the PHAA has been having around the formation of a Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has been the recognition that a CDC needs to have a broader scope than solely that of communicable disease control. The purpose of this…
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An Australian CDC is an opportunity to transform the public health workforce
Dr Laksmi Govindasamy Although there are many important aspects for the proposed Australian Centres for Disease Prevention and Control (ACDC) to consider in terms of design, structure, and scope, the potential implications for workforce development may be among the most exciting. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vital importance of…
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A Centre for Disease Prevention and Control – let’s work together to be clear on the problems it must solve
Professor Andrew Wilson and Professor Lucie Rychetnik The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre Co-Directors With apologies to Acca Dacca fans – we encourage resisting the temptation to get too excited about an ACDC (Australian Centre for Disease Control) and champion the focus on an Australian CDPC (Centre for Disease Prevention…
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A discussion with Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly on the proposed Australian CDC
PHAA Last week, Australia’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Professor Paul Kelly was kind enough to participate in an ‘Ask the CMO’ session at the PHAA Communicable Disease and Immunisation Conference 2022, held in Sydney. The focus of the discussion, hosted by PHAA President Adjunct Professor Tarun Weeramanthri AM, was the…
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Why Australia needs a National Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (NCDPC)
OzSAGE Independent Expert Panel OzSAGE has convened an independent expert panel to produce a report on an Australian Centre for Disease Prevention and Control by July 1 2022. The panel has expertise in public and occupational health and prevention, and includes past chief health officers and others with substantial depth of…
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Questions of scope and governance: A northern Queensland perspective on the proposed Centre for Disease Control
Stephanie Topp1, Alexandra Edelman1, Sue Devine1, Tammy Allen1, Paul Horwood1, Julie Mudd2, Emma McBryde3, Jeff Warner1 College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville and Cairns, Queensland. College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville and Cairns, Queensland. Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine,…
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Share your expertise on what an Australian Centre for Disease Control and Prevention could look like
PHAA CEO, Adj Prof Terry Slevin The result of the 21 May election means Australia is now “under new management”. The change of government means many developments, including the establishment of an Australian Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ACDCP), which was Labor’s prominent commitment while in opposition. PHAA has…