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Category: Indigenous health

Image shows a "no smoking" symbol on top of a map of Aotearoa New Zealand. Text says "Intouch Public Health Blog". The logo of the Public Health Association.

Aotearoa provides guidance on the next phase of tobacco control measures in Australia: more of the same is not enough

Dr Raglan Maddox, Catherine Manning, Prof Raymond Lovett, Assoc Prof Lisa Whop, Selah Hart, Dr Michelle Kennedy, Assoc Prof El-Shadan … More

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New Zealand, tobacco control
An Australian Centre for Disease Control. CDC Corner. Read PHAA's final submission on CDC discussion paper.

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 … More

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CDC Corner
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Locking up kids has serious mental health impacts and contributes to further reoffending

Summer May Finlay, University of Wollongong; Ee Pin Chang, The University of Western Australia; Jemma Collova, The University of Western … More

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child and youth health, Indigenous health, justice health
PHAA President Tarun Weeramanthri on the left presents the 2022 Sidney Sax Medal to Associate Professor Sophie Dwyer PSM.

Sophie Dwyer PSM on working with talented people to solve difficult problems

Associate Professor Sophie Dwyer (right), received the 2022 Sidney Sax Medal from PHAA President, Adjunct Professor Tarun Weeramanthri (left), recently … More

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COVID-19, PHAA awards, public health workforce
Left picture: aerial view of outback town under blue sky during daytime. Right picture: Gloved hand holding vial.

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 … More

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COVID-19, Indigenous health, primary health care
A glass ashtray full of used cigarette buts.

‘Dispelling the smoke to reflect the mirror’: the time is now to eliminate tobacco related harms

Helen Tran, PHAA Intern A recently published commentary by Maddox et al in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of … More

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations, ACCHOs, New Zealand, nicotine, tobacco control
Five photos of the PHAA Award Winners from left to right: Corina Darkie, A/Prof Sophie Dwyer, Dr Joanne Flavel, A/Prof Brahm Marjadi, and A/Prof Christina Pollard

High achievers honoured with 2022 PHAA Awards

From L-R: Corina Darkie, A/Prof Sophie Dwyer, Dr Joanne Flavel, A/Prof Brahm Marjadi, A/Prof Christina Pollard. Helen Tran and BF, … More

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awards, Branches/SIGs, Indigenous health, PHAA awards, public health workforce
An aerial view of the town of Tennant Creek, Northern Territory. Image: Google Earth

How housing affects health on remote Country

The housing crisis is currently a hot-button issue making headlines Australia-wide. But it’s been endemic in Central Australia for decades. … More

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Rather than focusing on the negative, we need a strength-based way to approach First Nations childrens’ health

Jennifer Browne, Deakin University; Jill Gallagher, Indigenous Knowledge; Joleen Ryan, Deakin University; Mark Lock (Ngiyampaa), Deakin University, and Troy Walker, … More

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations, child and youth health
Headshot of Dr Alana Gall. Text bottom right corner of headshot: 'Dr Alana Gall'. Background of PHAA logos.

A Q&A with Dr Alana Gall on NAIDOC week, motivations, and public health career so far

Dr Alana Gall, a Pakana woman, PHAA member, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, is conducting crucial … More

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Indigenous health, NAIDOC, NAIDOC week, public health workforce
2022 NAIDOC Week logo. Text 'Get up! Stand up! Show up! 3-10 July 2022.'

Public health research highlighted during NAIDOC Week

Dr Michelle Kennedy and Dr Leanne Coombe PHAA celebrates this year’s NAIDOC Week theme, as outlined on the official NAIDOC … More

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Chronic disease, COVID-19, Indigenous health, Mental Health
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Q&A: Indigenous Peoples’ Inclusion in Food Governance

This piece was first published by the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney. Read the original article. For NAIDOC Week, … More

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food and nutrition, Governance, Indigenous health
Public Health Association of Australia logo.

More Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living longer

Malcolm Baalman, PHAA Senior Policy and Advocacy Adviser   Australia’s population of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is 25% … More

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Picture of 3 scholarship winners: Tara Guckel, Belinda Belhatchet, and Nurhira Abdul Kadir. Text: 'Preventive Health Conference 2022. Accelerating action. Wednesday 11 to Friday 13 May 2022. Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, QLD. Hybrid conference. www.prevention2022.com | #Prevention2022.' Public Health Association of Australia logo.

Scholarship winners share reflections on Preventive Health Conference

Joe Carrello, PHAA NSW Earlier in 2022, the PHAA NSW branch awarded four scholarships for individuals to attend the 2022 PHAA … More

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Branches and SIGs, public health workforce
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First Nations mothers are more likely to die during childbirth. More First Nations midwives could close this gap

Pamela McCalman, La Trobe University; Catherine Chamberlain, The University of Melbourne, and Machellee Kosiak, Australian Catholic University While Australia is … More

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child and youth health, Indigenous health, maternal health, public health workforce
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Long-serving MP Warren Snowdon retires

Malcolm Baalman, PHAA As happens at every federal election, several long-serving Members of Parliament have retired. Two in particular have … More

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Health equity, Indigenous health, political economy of health, Public Health
Reconciliation Australia logo top right. Picture of many people standing, walking, sitting. Text: 'Be Brave. Make Change. National Reconciliation Week 2022. 27 May - 3 June. #NRW2022.'

55 years since the 1967 Referendum, what’s changed?

Malcolm Baalman, PHAA Senior Policy and Advocacy Adviser Today is the 55th anniversary since Australians voted in the 1967 Referendum … More

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Health equity, Indigenous health, political economy of health, Public Health
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So now the real work begins

PHAA CEO, Adj Prof Terry Slevin I suspect a lot of us will have had a pretty good weekend.  The … More

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2022 Federal Election, Climate change, Public Health
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Rural Health Mythbusters

Author’s note [1] Kristen Glenister, Claire Quilliam, Olivia Mitchell, Lucinda Aberdeen, Carol Reid, Brahmaputra Marjadi. In Australia, approximately one third … More

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Chronic disease, Health equity, rural health
An artwork called 'the Diversity of one working together' by Max Mansell, an Indigenous Tasmanian artist

Reclaiming health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Dr Michelle Kennedy – PHAA Vice-President Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health This continent’s First Peoples were healthy enough to … More

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2022 Federal Election, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations, Health equity, Public Health, public health workforce
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“Uncomfortable, important and compelling”: Food Sovereignty presentations at Food Futures 2022

Christina Pollard, Melanie Parker, and Food Futures Conference Advisory Committee Over 170 delegates attended the Food Futures Conference 2022, held … More

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food and nutrition, Food Futures, Indigenous health
Composite image features a portrait of Prof Billie Bonevski on the left and the roof of a Flinders University building, taken by Theen Moy

Flinders University adjusts to attract and train next generation of public health leaders

Professor Billie Bonevski – Flinders University Recognising the central role public health plays in the most wicked of the global … More

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Australian universities, Health equity, Public Health, public health education, public health graduates, public health workforce
Text includes: 'Build a Stronger #PublicHealth Workforce.' The Public Health Association of Australia logo. voteforpublichealth.com. Infographic of 5 people with 'Public health workforce' written underneath.

Hundreds join the rally cry for greater investment in Australia’s public health workforce

Jeremy Lasek – PHAA In one of the biggest demonstrations of support for significant new investment in Australia’s over-stretched public … More

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Indigenous health, Public Health, public health workforce
World AIDS day. December 1. Where to next? A red ribbon with 40 years of HIV written on it diagonally.

On World AIDS Day, peak body says elimination can be achieved in Australia by 2025

Jeremy Lasek – PHAA Today, 1 December, is World AIDS Day. After 40 years of trying to control the spread … More

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AIDS, child health, Health equity, international health, Public Health
Silhouette of a guard inside a watch tower at Goulburn jail.

Prisons still failing First Nations people, Justice Health conference told

Jeremy Lasek – PHAA Three decades after the landmark Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, a leading expert on … More

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Indigenous incarceration, justice health, Public Health
Screenshot of a video message by the Minister for Indigenous Australians, the Hon Ken Wyatt AM MP. The Minister is seated at his desk in his office.

Government promises action and money to counter Indigenous incarceration, Minister tells Justice Health 2021 conference

Jeremy Lasek – PHAA More action at a local level. More partnerships. More targeted funding. Greater research. And real targets … More

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Indigenous health, Indigenous incarceration, justice health, Public Health
A boy pulls a toy on a string beside a sea wall. This photo of Saibai island in the Torres Strait was taken by Brad Marsellos and posted to Flickr.

Is the Australian Government doing enough to counter the impacts of climate change on Torres Strait Islander communities?

Anna Alex – PHAA intern Back in May 2019, a group of Torres Strait Islanders lodged a landmark climate and … More

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, Climate change, Health equity
Associate Professor Michelle Dickson smiles and stands in front of a painting.

PHAA celebrates Michelle Dickson’s teaching contribution and shares her COVID-19 ‘silver linings’

‘For over 30 years, she has made a catalytic contribution to strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their communities … More

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awards, Indigenous health, public health education
Associate Professor Lisa Whop stands with her arms folded and looks at the camera. Image credit Jamie Kidston, ANU

Henrietta Lacks’ iconic story of inequity, injustice, and disparities in health holds Australian relevance

Dr Mary-Anne Land (PHAA) & Associate Professor Lisa Whop (ANU) As a young mother, Henrietta Lacks and her husband were … More

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Health equity, Henrietta Lacks, HPV, Indigenous health, vaccines, WHO
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An update on the public health vaccination campaign tackling COVID wave in Illawarra

TOBY DAWSON – Vax the Illawarra Campaign Volunteer Background: In September we shared stories about the Vax The Illawarra campaign … More

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