🚨 Paper alert 🚨Excited to be coauthor on a modelling study: Soft Drinks industry levy is predicted to lead to ⬇️ in dental caries, overweight/obesity & ⬆️ quality of life & life expectancy in children in England. Biggest gains in the most deprived areas journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…

Check out this job at World Health Organization: Director, Noncommunicable Diseases Without bias😉 The most exciting job in the Global Public Health world- please apply!!! linkedin.com/jobs/view/3881…

Food & Mood researchers have published a new paper in The BMJ looking at ultra-processed foods and their associations with a range of health outcomes. Read the full paper 👉 bmj.com/content/384/bm… or a summary in JAMA 👉jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… Dr. Melissa M Lane

This weekend,
take a breath
take time for yourself
take care of your mental health.

#MentalHealthMatters

🏃 April 6 - World Day for #PhysicalActivity ISPAH initiative

Share videos/photos of your experiences & ideas promoting #PhysicalActivity across the 8 investments.

Read more on our blog and keep an eye out over the next few days for videos from ISPAH 🔗 buff.ly/3xhPv4o

💃🏻 Happy World Day for #PhysicalActivity !
🚴🏻‍♀️ I started my Saturday getting my heart pumping with a 20km bike ride.
🌅 I took a few moments to enjoy the morning light bringing Melbourne’s lovely bay views to life.
😊 Energised both body & brain!
❤️ So many reasons to #MoveMore !

“Good health cannot be a luxury for the few. It is a fundamental right for all,” says Dr Saia Ma’u Piukala.

Ahead of #WorldHealthDay on 7 April, World Health Organization (WHO) is urging governments to accelerate action to realize the right to #HealthForAll ➡️ bit.ly/43QB4R1

'In 1948, governments around the world...adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It recognizes 'the right to a standard of living adequate for the health & well-being' of a person & their family, & that is an 'equal & inalienable' right for all.' - Dr Saia Ma'u Piukala

Job Advert❗️ WHO Director of Nutrition & Food Safety (D2)
Leading WHO’s presence in #CodexAlimentarius , #HealthSystems strengthening in food & #nutrition monitoring/surveillance, addressing disease burden from un- #HealthyDiets ➕more
⏰ 23 Apr 2024
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💃🏻 Do you move?
💻 Do you sit?
🥱Do you sleep?

Have a say on draft messaging on how much of each of these activities is optimal for health and wellbeing for new 24-hour movement guidelines being developed for Australia.
redcap.link/aus.guidelines

24-Hr Movement Guidelines are replacing standalone physical activity guidelines in 🇦🇺stakeholders & the public are invited give your opinion on examples of recommendations & messaging. Please take 5 mins to complete survey. See link 👇
redcap.link/aus.guidelines

🤔richard horton:
Do climate & health scientists & advocates “not understand how power is distributed & manipulated” & so have “no strategy to trigger political change”? That power is inertial.
& related: Have the #SDGs exacerbated silos & self interest within that power system?

Like all doctors I have seen the struggle of people addicted to smoking trying to quit, as their addiction destroys their health, independence and life. Many die from smoking.

Most smokers wish they had never started but their choices were taken away by addiction to nicotine.

'I think that the best time to have done this would have been five years ago, frankly. But the second best time to do it is now.' ab.co/4aoc05W

“It’s about time”

That’s what my teenage son said while
listening to Mark Butler MP explain the new legislation going to Australian Parliament that will protect his mates from the risks of vapes.

We agree, the experiment has to stop 🛑

#AusPol ABC News abc.net.au/news/2024-03-2…

Final reminder to register for our next #SavingtheWorld webinar - this Thursday at the earlier time of 9:30am AEDT so that guest speaker Jess Beagley from Global Climate and Health Alliance can get to bed at 10:30pm instead of 1:30am!
hothouse.anu.edu.au/event/people-p…

👂@HealthGovAU wants to hear from YOU on Australia's approach to #ChronicDisease prevention & management.
Read the consult. paper & complete a survey by 19April to participate in a review & refresh of the Nat'l Strategic Framework for #ChronicConditions : consultations.health.gov.au/hearing-servic…