Tag: Public Health
-
WHO statement on notification of withdrawal of the United States
World Health Organization Note: This statement, published on 24 January 2026, is also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish As a founding member of the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States of America has contributed significantly to many of WHO’s greatest achievements, including the eradication of…
-
Eight ANZJPH articles that made headlines in 2025
Hollie Harwood Each year over 1.1 million readers visit and download articles from the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (ANZJPH). While our journal citations measure impact, they don’t capture one of ANZJPH’s unique strengths – the way that our evidence-based articles influence policy and practice, support advocacy,…
-
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…
-
Reflections on SA Population Health Conference 2025
Eva Kemp, Sharon Kemboi, Honoka Nishida, and Lynne Lagahit The South Australian (SA) Population Health Conference is getting bigger each year. Held on 24 October, this year’s conference had 78 abstracts and 140 attendees. Some of the PHAA SA Branch student representatives reflected on their experience and shared what they…
-
Reflections on Australian Public Health Conference 2025
Allana O’Fee, Robert Nersisyan, Khushi Makwana, and AnnMarie Eke-Uka Our Australian Public Health Conference was this year held on Dharawal Country / Wollongong in September. Around 400 delegates discussed public health challenges around the conference theme ‘leadership and collaboration to connect a divided world’. Scholarship winners Allana O’Fee, Robert Nersisyan,…
-
Save UTS Public Health School and strengthen health education
Ximena Tolosa, Andrea Britton, Jesse Hoopes, Md Saiful Islam, Lisa Sharwood, Sandra Steele, Andrew Japri, Peter Black The PHAA One Health Special Interest Group (SIG) stands with the Australasian Epidemiological Association, the Medical Journal of Australia and other institutions in opposing the proposed closure of the School of Public Health…
-
How my PHAA internship awakened my voice in public health
Mahnoor Muhammad Growing up in Australia as a second-generation migrant Pakistani woman, I’ve always carried two worlds with me. At home, I was surrounded by vibrant culture, language, and food. Outside, I often noticed the gaps, health advice that didn’t reflect our diets, systems that weren’t built with people like…
-
Act quickly ahead of our journal’s 1 Aug publishing fee rise
Anne Brown and Kathya De Silva Amid rising costs and persistent pressures in academic publishing, peer-reviewed journals face increasing challenges in upholding standards and delivering high-quality service to their scholarly communities. Our official publication, the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (ANZJPH), is not immune from those pressures.…
-
Dala ng Agos ng Pagbagago (Swept up in change): Elevating the stories of Filipino international health workers
Penelope Smith and Juhani Capeding What happens when the people who care for the world’s health are forced to leave their own communities behind? Every year, on average 13,000 Filipino health workers migrate in search of opportunity not just for themselves, but for their families. In Australia, many find new…
-
Help shape the future of public health research
Have your say on what public health research matters most. Professor Luke Wolfenden Improving public health requires the generation and use of research to inform the decision making of policymakers, practitioners, and the community. At the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (ANZJPH), we want to use our…
-
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…
-
Early interventions crucial for children’s mental health: Prof Sharon Goldfeld
PHAA The inaugural Preventive Mental Health Symposium, which happens in Melbourne and online on 12 March, marks the first time experts from the mental health and public health sectors get together to discuss ways to protect and promote mental wellbeing. It’s hosted by the Public Health Association of Australia, in…
-
Mental and Dental: How systems thinking can transform oral health
Dr Silvana Bettiol, Associate Professor Archana Pradhan, and Professor Steve Kisely The increasing global challenge of mental health disorders poses a substantial burden on public health worldwide. Today, it accounts for approximately 5% of the worldwide disease burden. Those affected face an increased vulnerability to physical multimorbidity, encompassing conditions such…
-
Safety must trump profit when it comes to consumer products
Dr Catherine Niven, Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Health Services Professor Kirsten Vallmuur, Chair of Trauma Surveillance and Data Analytics, Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation & the Jamieson Trauma Institute Are you one of the millions of Australians that think businesses are legally required to ensure their products are safe…
-
Learn from different worldviews, says PHAA Mentor of the Year, Professor Rob Moodie
By Rob Moodie, PHAA Mentor of the Year Rob Moodie, Professor of Public Health at the University of Melbourne, was recognised for his commitment to mentorship at the 2023 Australian Public Health Conference. We chatted to him about his career and the importance of mentorship in public health. What was…
-
“A career in public health can transform people’s lives”: Introducing Tan Nguyen, PHAA Fellow
By Tan Nguyen, PHAA Fellow Tan Nguyen was awarded a PHAA Fellowship during the recent Australian Public Health Conference in Hobart. We talked to him about his passion for public health and career to date. What was your reaction to receiving the PHAA Fellowship? I am really honoured to be…
-
Reflections on the 2023 Australian Public Health Conference
Elise Rivera, Health Promotion SIG Travel Award Recipient This submission was written prior to the Voice referendum on 14 October 2023. It was a great privilege to be awarded the PHAA Health Promotion Special Interest Group’s Travel Award 2023 and attend the 2023 Australian Public Health Conference in Hobart.…
-
A Voice to Parliament is a human right for Australia’s First Peoples
Honorary Assoc. Prof. Leanne Coombe, Policy and Advocacy Manager, PHAA I began writing this blog on the anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), which was adopted by the General Assembly on Thursday 13 September 2007. Australia was one of only…
-
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,…
-
Striking before it’s El Nino hot: raising awareness of older people’s heat health risks
Ella Jackman (Project Coordinator & Research Assistant), Mehak Oberai (Senior Research Assistant), Ethos (Extreme Heat and Older Persons) Project, and Associate Professor Shannon Rutherford, Griffith University Global temperatures have increased and are expected to continue increasing, due to the ongoing consequences of climate change. This warming will have unprecedented harms…
-
Scholarship recipients reflect on CDIC Perth 2023
Editor’s note: PHAA was pleased to award Indigenous Workforce Scholarships for the Communicable Diseases and Immunisation Conference, held in Perth from 19 to 21 June 2023. In the pieces below, two recipients reflect on their experiences. Georgina Kelly I Environmental Health Promotion Officer, Kimberley Region WA Country Health Service This…
-
It’s time to put money aside and respond to community need when it comes to gambling harm
Public Health Association of Australia The highly anticipated report from the Government inquiry into online gambling dropped on 28 June 2023, and now it’s time for the rubber to hit the road on whether the Government listens to the commercially driven gambling, sporting, and media lobby groups, or instead responds…
-
Seize the opportunity: prioritise comprehensive primary healthcare reform
Introduction by Croakey: System-wide and comprehensive primary healthcare reform is “needed to bring together an increasingly fragmented system, where the most disadvantaged struggle to get the care they need, when they need it”, according to public health practitioner and Masters of Global Health student Lauren Richardson. In a submission to…
-
The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 1 December 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, a London-based Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an…
-
The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 24 November 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, a London-based Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an…
-
The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 17 November 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, a London-based Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an…
-
An election on health lacking vision beyond hospitals: why Victoria must invest in Public Health and prevention
PHAA Victoria Prevention Subcommittee The PHAA’s Victorian branch, in partnership with the Australian Health Promotion Association and Australasian Epidemiological Association, have released their 2022 Victorian Election Scorecard. This assesses the policy platforms of the major parties – Labor, the Coalition (Liberal/National) and the Greens – against our joint Election Platform, which…
-
The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 10 November 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, a London-based Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an…
-
In remembrance of Dr Liz Barber, our colleague, friend and advocate for ecology and public health
From left to right: Dr Liz Barber (image courtesy of Lee Barber); Liz’s activism on climate with Health on the Frontline in 2019 (image courtesy of Health on the Frontline). Linda Selvey, The University of Queensland; Fran Boyle, The University of Queensland; Julie Dean, The University of Queensland; Richard…
-
The CODE COVID-19 International Update, 3 November 2022
Dr Priscilla Robinson The Code COVID19 International Update is a weekly snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing efforts by nations around the world to test, track and fight the virus. It’s compiled by Dr Priscilla Robinson, a London-based Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, and an…