Prevention Centre blog

How can citizens contribute to the science and practice of public health?

Dr Samantha Rowbotham |

05 November 2018

Our new project hopes to demonstrate the feasibility of using citizen science for public health. We believe engaging the power of citizens will have a whole range of benefits.

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Director’s update

Professor Andrew Wilson | Director

09 October 2018

We have been fortunate at the Prevention Centre to have had five years of funding, supportive funding partners, and now funding for a further five years

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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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