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Category: Public Health Workforce

Welcome to 2021 – a year of more uncertainty, but with cause for hope

Terry Slevin, PHAA CEO Here’s hoping that, as you read this, you retain some of the reinvigorating glow of a … More

National Preventive Health Strategy, NPHS

A message to our public health workers in 2020

Terry Slevin Emotionally charged, fraught, threatening, unsettling and filled with uncertainty. 2020 is finishing like it started. In January it … More

Victorian state budget a mixed affair for public health

Anna Nicholson The 2020-21 Victorian state budget is a mixed affair for public health. There is much to congratulate the … More

VIC Budget

Preventive approaches needed to improve child and youth health and wellbeing

Tracey Oorschot and Jane Frawley Child, youth, Indigenous and social policy advocates have campaigned for improved health and wellbeing of … More

CDC, NPHS

COVID-19 healthcare response in NSW: a success story

Australian Public Health Conference 2020 Introduction: It’s being dubbed Australia’s coronavirus success story – open borders, open businesses, slow infection … More

Public Health in Queensland – a state election wrap

Paige Preston and Letitia Del Fabbro #QldVotesHealth #5percentforprevention #Qldvotes With only a few days left before the October 31st Queensland … More

Prevention, QLD election

A disappointing week, but signs we are at least facing in the right direction

Terry Slevin, CEO of the PHAA   The Australian Government Budget for 2020-21 was finally released last week, after a … More

Budget, Budget 2020-21, Prevention

A start on a new approach to disease control?

Terry Slevin   It’s welcome news that Labor, in opposition, is thinking about how to maximise Australia’s structural arrangements for … More

ACDC, CDC, Centre for Disease Control, pandemic

Magnificent response supports Victoria’s COVID-19 front-line public health worker mentoring program

Jeremy Lasek   The catch-cry ‘we’re all in this together’ during the COVID-19 public health emergency has brought to the … More

mentoring program, Victoria

Where are all the public health policies this ACT election?

Terry Slevin This year has been indelibly marked by the public health crisis of COVID, and the public has had … More

ACT election 2020

Victoria may not set the gold standard but its COVID numbers far from fail on a global scale

Terry Slevin   Listening to much of the commentary as Victoria has battled to get on top of its second … More

contact tracing, Victoria

Strengthening the public health workforce

Joel Negin A strong, effective public health workforce has been critical to Australia’s successes in preventing the worst of COVID-19. … More

public health officer training program

Where are all the public health workers?

Terry Slevin Significant gaps in the size, training, structure and credentialing of the public health workforce have been exposed as a … More

public health workforce

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