Tag: preventive health
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Strengthening prevention and connection: reflections from the Preventive Mental Health Conference 2026
Deena Mehjabeen The Preventive Mental Health Conference 2026, co-hosted by the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) and Prevention United, provided a valuable opportunity to reflect on the future of mental health promotion in Australia. Held on Dharug Country, Parramatta, on 24–25 March, it brought together voices from research, policy,…
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2025 brought big break-throughs for public health
Terry Slevin As 2025 winds down towards a holiday season, it’s time to reflect on the year that was for public health issues. 2025 will be long remembered as the year that Parliament created the national Centre for Disease Control from the current interim version. After decades of advocacy…
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Prevention is Political – Reflections from the 2025 Preventive Health Conference
Allyson Todd I am grateful to have been supported by the PHAA NSW Branch Scholarship to attend the 2025 Preventive Health Conference in Canberra. It felt both surreal and serendipitous to be in Australia’s capital just days before the 3 May federal election under the conference theme ‘Prevention is…
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Why attend a PHAA conference?
A big part of our work at PHAA is delivering conferences which cover different public health topics, like prevention, disease control, and mental health. Our conferences are hosted around Australia and provide a platform for public health professionals to network, collaborate, and learn from one another. We’re looking forward to…
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Diabetes map of Tasmania invaluable for health policy
Dr Ngan Dinh Maps are trustworthy companions; they reveal our current location and lead us to unexplored horizons. But have you ever imagined that a map could unlock the secrets of local health status and inform policy planning to shape our future? Our new research, recently published in the Australian…
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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 interim report, the Commission stated that, “once admired as the most progressive in our nation, the state’s mental health system has catastrophically failed to live up to expectations”. The Commission…
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A Budget that puts patients first leaves people behind: an overview of how the Victorian State Budget stacks up against PHAA Victoria’s Budget submission
Four members of the PHAA Victoria Branch The Victorian Government released its 2022-23 State Budget on 3 May 2022. This week, the PHAA Victoria Branch team has reviewed the Budget papers to compare commitments against recommendations put forward in their Budget submission. Further information on the items included in the…
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The key to our future: increased investment in prevention
Allyson Todd, former PHAA intern, University of Sydney It is well known that investing in preventative health is necessary to reduce Australia’s disease burden, improve health equity, and build a resilient health system. The importance of public health and investing in prevention has been well recognised throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.…
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The future for preventive health in Australia
In 2018, with our focus turned to the 2019 federal election, the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) launched the “Top Ten successes in Public Health in the past 20 years”. Even before seeing our list, most audiences can pick five to seven of the ten items on it, so…