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

What’s taking the biggest toll on our mental health? Disconnection, financial stress and long waits for care

Marlee Bower, University of Sydney; Maree Teesson, University of Sydney, and Scarlett Smout, University of Sydney The new Labor government … More

Will the 2022 Victorian Budget solve the mental health crisis?

Stephen Carbone, Prevention United The recent Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System uncovered a system in crisis. In its … More

Single cigarette, standing vertically on a table

Despite a downward trend, smoking is still taking too many Australian lives

Jeremy Lasek – PHAA While the prevalence of smoking has steadily declined (by 75%) in the last 40 years in … More

Two people sitting at a desk, looking at a computer monitor. The person on the left is pointing at the monitor. A laptop also sits on the desk.

Can we avoid public health workforce burnout during health emergencies?

Amy Elizabeth Parry – Australian National University With no tangible end to the COVID-19 pandemic in sight, burnout of the … More

Keenan Mundine in front of a large painting of Indigenous art.

Keenan Mundine on his life of incarceration, and making Justice Health more culturally safe

Jeremy Lasek – PHAA We hear plenty about the importance of sharing, and understanding the lived experiences of others. At … More

Looking after our mental health during COVID-19

Deena Mehjabeen – PHAA member Mental health is essential to our health and wellbeing. In Australia, around 1 in … More

Mental health and adaptation to climate change

Dr Fiona Robards, Co-Convenor Mental Health Special Interest Group, PHAA Climate change presents an existential threat. It is almost unbelievable … More

20% of Pregnant Australian women don't recieve mental health checks. Image of woman crying.

20% of pregnant Australian women don’t receive the recommended mental health screening

One-fifth of Australian women still don’t receive mental health checks both before and after the birth of their baby, our research published today has found.

Impacts of COVID on mental health: image of a woman looking sad

Getting to the causes: Mental health and making real productivity gains post COVID

For many of us, forced to work at home or to not work at all, the COVID-19 crisis has driven home the importance of mental health and how work interacts with our sense of wellbeing.