Category: COVID-19
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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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Dr Peter Tait responds to PHAA CEO’s piece on COVID-19
Dr Peter Tait, PHAA member In a recent blog post (Intouch, July 17) PHAA CEO Terry Slevin responds to those wondering what PHAA is doing about COVID-19. He argues PHAA is doing quite a lot with the resources it has, and suggests we should continue what we are already doing…
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Confronting COVID amid many public health challenges
Adj Prof Terry Slevin, PHAA CEO It’s obvious that the COVID-19 pandemic has and continues to have an enormous effect on people’s health globally. It remains a dominant theme around discussions on public health issues. It’s far from over, and continues to attract very strong opinions and reactions, including some…
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PHAA representatives address federal Parliament’s Long COVID inquiry
Lily Pratt, PHAA On Monday 20 February, the House Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport held one of several public hearings for their Inquiry into Long COVID and Repeated COVID Infections. PHAA was invited to speak and Professor Catherine Bennett, head of Deakin Epidemiology, and Professor Caroline Miller,…
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Honouring Adj Assoc Prof Priscilla Robinson for her decades of efforts to Public Health
Adj Prof Tarun Weeramanthri, President, PHAA Adj Prof Terry Slevin, CEO, PHAA The President’s Award citation reads: “For outstanding contribution to the betterment and protection of public health in Australia”. It’s a fitting honour for Priscilla Robinson, who has been a long standing and active member of the PHAA and…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 6 December 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, a London-based Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 1 December 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, a London-based Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an…
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Intellectual property waiver for COVID vaccines should be expanded to include treatments and tests
Deborah Gleeson, La Trobe University; Dianne Nicol, University of Tasmania, and James Scheibner, Flinders University Global inequities in access to COVID vaccines have turned out to be a “catastrophic moral failure”, just as the World Health Organization warned they would in January 2021. Yet it took 20 months of negotiations…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 24 November 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, a London-based Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 17 November 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, a London-based Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an…
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PHAA members’ review of books – The Great Influenza (2004)
The Great Influenza by John M Barry (published 2004). Reviewed by Deborah Hilton and Natasha Hilton (above, right) In The Great Influenza, John M Barry describes the so-called Spanish ‘flu of 1918-19 as the ‘deadliest plague in history’. A historical account of various scientists and academics is given, mentioning methods and…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 10 November 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, a London-based Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 3 November 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, a London-based Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 27 October 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, a London-based Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an…
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Move outside your comfort zone to learn and grow, says Emerging Leader of 2022, Dr Joanne Flavel
Dr Joanne Flavel, 2022 PHAA Emerging Leader of the Year Research Fellow at Stretton Health Equity in the Stretton Institute, Adelaide. What was your reaction to winning the PHAA award? I was just so thrilled. PHAA has many amazing volunteers who work so hard, and when I became an active…
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How can we better understand and manage the effects of long COVID?
BF, current PHAA Intern As COVID-19 isolation requirements come to an end across Australia, experts warn the risk of developing potentially debilitating long COVID remains. Recognising the need to learn more about the effects of long COVID, the Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport has launched an Inquiry…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 13 October 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, a London-based Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an…
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Keeping Pathology Testing in First Nations Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Isabelle Haklar and Tamika Regnier, Flinders University International Centre for Point-of-Care Testing For some rural and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical services, turnaround times for traditional pathology testing can span weeks, with samples needing to be transported to urban laboratories hundreds of kilometres away. Roads and runways can…
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Leveraging COVID-19 disruptions to reorient governmental systems toward health equity
Michelle Morgan, PHAA member, Healthy Communities Officer at the Tasmanian Department of Health, and PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania Over the past few years, we have all experienced major disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic. But our experiences have not been equal. The pandemic has exposed and worsened…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 6 October 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, a London-based Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 29 September 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, a London-based Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an…
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Burning questions at ‘fireside chat’: three state public health chiefs provide insights
Melanie Parker, PHAA Three of Australia’s public health chiefs explored the past, present and future of public health in Australia during this year’s Population Health Congress 2022 in Adelaide. New South Wales Chief Health Officers Dr Kerry Chant PSM, Victorian Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton, and Tasmanian Director of…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 22 September 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, a London-based Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 15 September 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an editor…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 8 September 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an editor…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 1 September 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an editor…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 25 August 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an editor…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 18 August 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an editor…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 11 August 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an editor…
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The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 4 August 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an editor…