Tag: public health workforce
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Environmental health essential in an Australian CDC: Sophie Dwyer PSM
Sophie Dwyer One of the positive aspects of the conversation that the PHAA has been having around the formation of a Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has been the recognition that a CDC needs to have a broader scope than solely that of communicable disease control. The purpose of this…
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An Australian CDC is an opportunity to transform the public health workforce
Dr Laksmi Govindasamy Although there are many important aspects for the proposed Australian Centres for Disease Prevention and Control (ACDC) to consider in terms of design, structure, and scope, the potential implications for workforce development may be among the most exciting. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vital importance of…
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Celebrating ANZJPH’s Increased Impact Factor and Top 10 Articles for 2021
Professor John Lowe and Dr Leanne Coombe The official journal of the PHAA, the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (ANZJPH), is a renowned international peer-reviewed, and officially a Quartile 1, journal concerned with public health matters. It publishes research relevant to public health researchers, practitioners, and policy…
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Dr Matthew ‘Tepi’ Mclaughlin talks physical activity and Prevention 2022
Dr. Matthew ‘Tepi’ Mclaughlin and Mary Brushe In 2022 the PHAA Child and Youth Health Special Interest Group awarded several scholarships for students and early career researchers to attend a PHAA conference of their choosing. The aim of this newly established scholarship was to provide opportunities to public health professionals…
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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 research into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander wellbeing. A discerning paper led by Dr Gall, titled ‘Self-reported wellbeing and health-related quality of life of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people…
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A Centre for Disease Prevention and Control – let’s work together to be clear on the problems it must solve
Professor Andrew Wilson and Professor Lucie Rychetnik The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre Co-Directors With apologies to Acca Dacca fans – we encourage resisting the temptation to get too excited about an ACDC (Australian Centre for Disease Control) and champion the focus on an Australian CDPC (Centre for Disease Prevention…
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A discussion with Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly on the proposed Australian CDC
PHAA Last week, Australia’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Professor Paul Kelly was kind enough to participate in an ‘Ask the CMO’ session at the PHAA Communicable Disease and Immunisation Conference 2022, held in Sydney. The focus of the discussion, hosted by PHAA President Adjunct Professor Tarun Weeramanthri AM, was the…
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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 Preventive Health Conference, held 11-13 May at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. The winners were: Belinda Belhatchet (Student scholarship) Nurhira Abdul Kadir (Student scholarship), Patricia Fleming (Aboriginal and Torres…
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Who gets a say in public health nutrition? Five perspectives from the field
Christina Zorbas, Andrew Brown, Phoebe Nagorcka-Smith, Veronica Nunez, Dheepa Jeyapalan Introduction: A core tenet of public health nutrition is identifying and enacting actions to equitably improve population nutrition. We should act in a manner that proportionately addresses structural drivers of social and/or economic disadvantage. The increased focus on better including…
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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 one of the safest places in the world to give birth, First Nations women are three times more likely to die in childbirth than other Australian women (17.5 vs 5.5…
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Public health student Annabelle Whitehead-Broad on the invaluable experience of attending the Preventive Health Conference 2022
Annabelle Whitehead-Broad As a Bachelor of Public Health student, walking into the Preventive Health Conference 2022 made me nervous. This conference was filled with people living everything I’d studied – working in fields as diverse as policy and modelling, nutrition and psychology, and they were advocating for the values and…
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How we built FluTracking
Craig Dalton and Sandra Carlson FluTracking is an online weekly survey of respiratory symptoms that has tracked influenza from 2006 and then COVID-19 during the pandemic. It had a peak weekly participant count of over 150,000 people across Australia and New Zealand in 2021 and has expanded to Hong Kong…
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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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Discerning discussion at ‘Design principles of an Australian CDC’ webinar
Melanie Parker – PHAA With a 50/50 chance of an Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC) being formed after the federal election on 21 May, discussing the scope and structure of this centre was key to PHAA’s webinar on 11 April 2022. Presenters are leading figures at their respective…
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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 live here for tens of thousands of years, creating the world’s longest-lasting cultures. Then, colonisation. In a few generations the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ populations declined dramatically, and…
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Early Career Researchers showcase the future of food research
Courtney Thompson, Kevin Mao, Shayal Prasad, Sarah Gandolfo, Alexandra Procter – Students and Young Professionals in Public Health (SYPPH) committee. Cherie Russell – Food and Nutrition Special Interest Group Executive. Some of the country’s brightest young minds gave views of the future of food and nutrition research and advocacy in…
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Developing public health advocates
Dr Michael Moore AM, former World Federation of Public Health Associations President, and former CEO and now Life Member of PHAA PHAA members have come together to offer a new online public health advocacy short course. Public health is political. The advent of COVID-19 has made the political nature of…
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Chelsea Riviere, on being a 2021 National Mentoring Program mentee, and working on a South Pacific project
Students & Young Professionals Committee – PHAA The PHAA’s nine-month mentoring program unites experienced public health professionals (mentors) with early career PHAA members (mentees) who have similar interest areas. The program aims to increase the skills of mentees, provide experience in mentorship to public health professionals, and offer valuable networking…
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Recently recognised by the Governor-General, gambling harm research and evaluation manager Rosa Billi PSM recounts public health career
Jeremy Lasek – PHAA The PHAA today wraps up our series recognising some of public health’s highest achievers who’ve been awarded Australia Day honours by the Governor-General. Rosa Billi, who leads the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation’s Research and Evaluation Branch was among 60 federal, state, territory and local government employees…
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Q&A: Dr Fiona Robards on her role as Child and Youth Health SIG Co-Convenor
PHAA As part of a Q&A blog series on new 2022 PHAA SIG convenors, we spoke to Dr Fiona Robards, an active PHAA member who now leads the PHAA Child & Youth Health Special Interest Group with fellow Co-Convenor Cristyn Davies. Name, title/position, and summary of Public Health career trajectory…
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Dr Abela Mahimbo brings expertise in refugee and migrant health to Women’s Health Special Interest Group Co-Convenor role
PHAA The PHAA Women’s Health Special Interest Group (SIG) has been previously led by women’s public health experts including Professor Angela Dawson, Dr Geraldine Vaughan, and Pip Buckingham. They have passed the baton to new co-convenors Dr Abela Mahimbo and Dr Amie Steel for 2022. In the second of our…
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A mentee’s experience: Serena Booy on being part of the 2021 National Mentoring Program
Students & Young Professionals Committee – PHAA The PHAA’s nine month mentoring program unites experienced public health professionals (mentors) with early career PHAA members (mentees) who have similar interest areas. The program aims to build the capacity of mentees, provide experience in mentorship to public health professionals, and offer valuable…
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‘One of the pandemics we haven’t talked about is the pandemic of ageism,’ says Prof Julie Byles AO
Jeremy Lasek – PHAA Introduction We continue our series celebrating the achievements of leading lights in Australia’s public health networks who’ve been deservedly recognised in the 2022 Australia Day Honours. Today we meet Professor Julie Byles AO. Julie was honoured as an Officer in the Order of Australia ‘for her…
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A Q&A with Dr Amie Steel, one of two new Women’s Health Special Interest Group Co-Convenors
PHAA The PHAA Women’s Health Special Interest Group (SIG) has historically been one of our most active SIGs, with past Co-Convenors including women’s public health experts like Professor Angela Dawson, Dr Geraldine Vaughan, and Pip Buckingham. In the first of a Q&A blog series on new 2022 PHAA SIG convenors,…
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‘We need you’: Prof Helen Marshall AM joins call for more public health workers
Jeremy Lasek – PHAA Introduction Today, we continue our profile series, celebrating public health experts who’ve been recognised in the latest Australia Day Honours. Adelaide-based Professor Helen Marshall AM enjoyed a double celebration in January. Firstly, being appointed a Member of the Order of Australia, and secondly, being named the…
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Celebrating PHAA members’ Australia Day Honours – Professor Sandy Thompson AM
Jeremy Lasek – PHAA Introduction Today we continue our articles, profiling the roles played in Australia’s incredibly diverse public health workforce. In a series of articles over the next few weeks, we will recognise and celebrate those who received well-deserved ‘gongs’ in the recent Australia Day Honours list. We begin…
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Why PHAA is strengthening its Internship Program in 2022 and beyond…
Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin – PHAA CEO As an Organisation committed to building the public health workforce, one of our priorities is providing internships to students. PHAA’s objective is to provide interns with real world experience, expose them to campaigning and advocacy activities, submission writing and policy development, and expand…
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A mentor’s experience: A Q&A blog on the National Mentoring Program
Students & Young Professionals Committee – PHAA The PHAA’s nine month mentoring program unites experienced public health professionals (mentors) with early career PHAA members (mentees) who have similar interest areas. The program aims to build the capacity of mentees, provide experience in mentorship to public health professionals, and offer valuable…
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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 public health workforce is a real and imminent threat. Due to the urgent nature of emergency responses, the emergency health surge workforce is frequently selected based on individuals’ availability, rather…
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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 problems we face, Flinders University is reshaping and expanding its Public Health Discipline Group. I’ve been appointed this group’s new Lead, and my responsibilities include an emphasis on increasing Aboriginal…