Prevention Centre blog
What would you do with $100 million for prevention? Tackling our greatest challenge
Rohan Greenland | General Manager, Advocacy, National Heart Foundation of Australia
09 August 2018
If we had more money for prevention, we should invest our dollars to tackle the big risk factors – tobacco, diet, high body mass, alcohol use, physical inactivity and high blood pressure – not just because they have an immense impact on health, but also because they cause so many different chronic conditions.
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Director’s update
Professor Andrew Wilson | Director
Following our refunding, we're working on a new work plan comprising a range of exciting new projects on the prevention of chronic disease.
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What would you do with $100 million a year for prevention? A UK perspective
Professor Brian Ferguson | Chief Economist, Public Health England
25 July 2018
To complement our special issue of the Health Promotion Journal of Australia, guest authors describe the best buys for prevention spending in Australia
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Director’s update
Professor Andrew Wilson | Director
13 June 2018
Understanding how co-production works is as much part of the research agenda for the Prevention Centre as the specific projects we undertake.
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Director’s update
Professor Andrew Wilson | Director
09 April 2018
Let's push the envelope by looking at prevention of other chronic diseases and conditions.
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Director’s update
Professor Andrew Wilson | Director
07 February 2018
Following the loss of the Prevention Centre's Deputy Director, Sonia Wutzke, it is now time to find someone to manage the Centre's operations.
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Time for a rethink in how we approach chronic pain
Professor Fiona Blyth | Professor of Public Health and Pain Medicine, University of Sydney
02 February 2018
One in five Australians now lives with chronic pain, and most have little access to specialist pain services. But there is a better way. And it requires a radical change in how we think about pain.
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A time for action: the Prevention Centre to expand
Associate Professor Sonia Wutzke | Deputy director
14 December 2017
We already know what to do to reduce risk factors for preventable chronic disease - now we need to turn that knowledge into sustained action. As we head into the New Year, we will be refocusing and renewing our efforts to undertake research that will accelerate change.
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Director’s update
Professor Andrew Wilson | Director
12 December 2017
We've learnt a lot about working in partnerships during the last 4½ years. As 2017 draws to a close, we look forward to continuing to grow and improve our partnerships in the year ahead.
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Enacting change in complex systems: Why theory matters
Professor Penny Hawe | Chief Investigator
Complexity theory gives us a different way of thinking that enables us to drive change, maximise health gains and prevent chronic disease.
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Welcome to the Prevention Centre’s blog, which features comment about key issues in the prevention of chronic disease as well as systems thinking for prevention. We welcome your comments on the blog (please read our comments policy here). If you would like to write an article for the blog, please contact the Prevention Centre’s Senior Communications Officer Helen Signy.