We’re on the 🚍 to the Preventive Health Conf PHAA is on Bluesky We’re on the panel for ‘Elite sport & preventive health - friends or foes?’ Guess what we’ll talk about? Dedicated bus lanes, investment in pt & walkable neighbourhoods. Access & inclusion. Private vehicle reduction & more!

Equity a strong theme across all the presentations in the ‘macro policy’ session at the ⁦PHAA is on Bluesky⁩ #prevention2022 conference

Great presentation from @laurabarnes567 yesterday on the equity framework under development at Health and Wellbeing Queensland

There are no binding agreements for managing food industry interference. We need to properly define industry actors so we can identify where there are conflicts of interest & when engagement may or may not be necessary - great to hear from public health lawyer @AndreaL58220526

.Katherine Cullerton (moving to BlueSky) presenting on support for SSB tax and how message framing can increase or decrease support. Some similar results but these differences were higher for regional voters! Frames that resonated were supporting business to change. Frames that did not were anti-industry.

Really concerning (but fascinating) presentation by ⁦@KBackholer⁩ outlining the influence of Big Tech in our lives and on our health #Prevention2022

The George Institute calls for commitment to prevention ahead of the Australian federal election. #AusPol2022 #Australia #AusVotesHealth2022 Read our full statement here: georgeinstitute.org.au/news/george-in…

New blog: Maddie Heenan of The George Institute for Global Health discusses the effort it took Aus & NZ to get mandatory pregnancy warnings on alcohol labels She says the UK must highlight how self-regulation does not work & build a broad-based coalition beyond public health ias.org.uk/2022/06/01/wha…

Check out my newly published protocol for a political economy analysis. Stay tuned for the case study results looking at healthy and sustainable food procurement in Aus Janani Shanthosh Katherine Cullerton (moving to BlueSky) journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

⚡ NEW REPORT ⚡ The Lancet Countdown 2022 Report warns that health is at the mercy of fossil fuels. Read the 2022 assessment of the health impacts of climate change, and the health benefits of climate action: thelancet.com/journals/lance… #LancetClimate22

What are policy recommendations from MJA-Lancet Countdown for Australia? The 2022 policy brief released today was developed with parter organisations The Royal Australasian College of Physicians AMA Media MJA PHAA is on Bluesky @acn_tweet Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association Climate and Health Alliance now available The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change website Croakey News

New paper! Very excited to contribute to this Australia update published with the global #LancetClimate22 report. It's time we started seeing concrete action on #climatehealth mja.com.au/journal/2022/2…

Australian and UK experts provide perspective on the Australian climate situation as the #LancetClimate22 report is released, showing how back-to-back disasters and a slow transition to renewables and zero carbon present major risks to #publichealth mja.com.au/system/files/2…

Latest PhD paper is out! What do investors see as key challenges and opportunities to embedding nutrition within investment decision-making in Australia? Thanks to co-authors Gary Sacks Rachel Carey - also drrachelcarey.bsky.social Miranda Blake and participants for all your input! tinyurl.com/4n25b7md

Signs your kid's education program might have been designed by a harmful industry, e.g. Alcohol, gambling, fossil fuels, guns... (!!!) #cdoh #EPH2022

‘This case is really about us all being able to connect with social media on our own terms, & without having to essentially accept that we should be subjected to hugely invasive tracking surveillance profiling just to be able to access social media.’ theguardian.com/technology/202…

Congratulations to Maddie Heenan on winning the 2022 Ilona Kickbusch Award for Best Article by an Early Career Researcher! Read her award winning paper for free in Health Promotion International (OUP): bit.ly/3y7EPCy Prof Samantha Thomas Dr Simone McCarthy

Out today: Australia's political engagement on health and climate change: the MJA–Lancet Countdown indicator and implications for the future. Congrats Maddie and the team! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/mj… @LucieRychetnik Croakey News Climate and Health Alliance Tarun Weeramanthri AM @ellyhowse The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change

New paper out! A look at Australia's political engagement on health and climate change @ellyhowse @LucieRychetnik Tarun Weeramanthri AM Fiona Armstrong Dr Ying Zhang onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/mj…

Good to see this, given recent paper by Maddie Heenan and colleagues in MJA which highlighted that Australia's political engagement on health and climate change has been particularly poor. mja.com.au/journal/2023/2…