Category: Australian Centre for Disease Prevention & Control
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Australian CDC: one giant leap for public health
Professor Paul M Kelly Last week saw a largely under reported but important milestone for public health in Australia and beyond. The draft legislation was introduced in Parliament to establish an Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC) as a statutory agency under the Minister for Health. The Public Health Association…
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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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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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$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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“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:…