Public health

Melissa Southey

Anne Kavanagh

Professor Anne Kavanagh is a social epidemiologist who is an international leader in health inequalities research. She is the inaugural Chair of Disab..

Helen Herrman

The role of a Prospective Public Health Intervention Study Register in building public health evidence: Proposal for content and use

E Waters, N Priest, R Armstrong, S Oliver, P Baker, D McQueen, C Summerbell, MP Kelly, B Swinburn

Journal article  |  2007  |  Journal of Public Health

Evidence-informed practice is a key component of public health and the focus of much discussion, of which the nature of evidence a..

General practice and public health: Who is my patient?

G Porter, G Blashki, N Grills

Journal article  |  2014  |  Australian Family Physician

Background: General practitioners (GPs) tend to focus most of their energies on providing primary healthcare to individuals, with ..

The public health playbook: ideas for challenging the corporate playbook

J Lacy-Nichols, R Marten, E Crosbie, R Moodie

Journal article  |  2022  |  Lancet Global Health

Open access

Many commercial actors use a range of coordinated and sophisticated strategies to protect business interests—their corporate playb..

Public Health (Australia) Fellowship

Public Health Unit Communicable Disease Control

Myanmar Public Health Research Strengthening

Rebuilding Gaza means rebuilding public health

Tania King, Rob Moodie

The health and humanitarian crisis in Gaza is acute. Many tens of thousands of people have been killed and thousands of others have sustain..

Why housing is a major public health issue for Australians with disability

Zoe Aitken

Access to adequate, safe, secure, accessible and affordable housing is a fundamental human right. But in Australia, right now, housing disa..

Rising university fees threaten to skew public health services

Peter Brooks, Steve Trumble

American medical graduates enter hospital training with a debt of around US$160,000 if they attended a public medical school, or US$..