Tag: policy advocacy
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A year to celebrate historic public health wins
Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin, PHAA CEO As 2024 staggers to a close, Australia’s public health community has several reasons to feel a sense of achievement. It is time to reflect on what has probably been the best year for advancing public health causes in at least a decade. The good…
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How to communicate public health research
PHAA Communications have recently launched a member-only public health communications guide. Find it here. Communication is essential to public health. Recall some of the most effective public health campaigns in Australian history – Slip, Slop, Slap, or anti-smoking ads – these are excellent examples of how communication can help us…
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Building strong public health policy
Lily Pratt and Jasmine Lykissas What do sugar labelling, trans health, and skin cancer prevention have in common? Perhaps not much to an everyday person, but for us at the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA), they’re three of the many policy positions we rely on to advocate for the…
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Advocacy strategies for advancing health in all policies: what works for trade policymaking?
Dr Belinda Townsend, Australian Research Centre for Health Equity, Australian National University, Ms Brigitte Tenni, School of Psychology and Population Health, La Trobe University & Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Ms Sharni Goldman, Australian Research Centre for Health Equity, Australian National University & Associate Prof Deborah Gleeson,…
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Australia is dragging its feet on healthy eating. In 5 years we’ve made woeful progress
Gary Sacks, Deakin University and Davina Mann, Deakin University Australia is falling behind other countries in addressing the unhealthy state of our diets. Several other countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada and Mexico, have recently taken major steps to help improve population nutrition and prevent obesity. But our latest assessment,…
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Health communication for policy change and better patient care
Australian Public Health Conference 2020 Plenary Session 5 – Health Communication Keynote speakers: Danielle Wood, Chief Health Officer, Grattan Institute – Moving the big rocks: using evidence to influence policy Tricia Malowney OAM, President, Women with Disabilities Australia – Women with disabilities and health information – Ableism at work Today’s…