Prevention Centre blog
Helping scientists communicate through improv and story-telling
Marge Overs | Communications Manager
09 August 2017
After a boot camp at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, Marge Overs is more convinced than ever of the power of story telling in research communications.
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Director’s update
Professor Andrew Wilson | Director
Last week we held a workshop of Prevention Centre researchers and partners to consider what we had learnt about partnering in research and running a large consortium of researchers with a common interest.
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Bottleshops affect people’s health, so our laws need to reflect that
Jan Muhunthan | PhD candidate
03 August 2017
Bottleshops aren’t like other shops. There’s growing evidence their location and density influences the health and well-being of the people in surrounding areas, particularly in disadvantaged areas. Yet in development applications considered in court, public health impact is seldom taken into account.
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Studying how IT monitoring affects prevention delivery in NSW
| Dr Katie Conte, Research Fellow
24 July 2017
Many IT projects in clinical practice have been plagued by poor success rates and high price tags. Dr Katie Conte, Lina Persson and Deni Fukunishi describe a Prevention Centre project that is looking at why NSW Health's Population Health Information Management System (PHIMS) has remained strong for more than five years while others have failed.
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Alcohol planning laws favour industry, not communities’ health
Jan Muhunthan | PhD candidate
03 July 2017
To create healthier communities, planning legislation must be changed to give the judiciary greater flexibility to incorporate public health considerations in their decision making.
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Director’s update
Professor Andrew Wilson | Director
07 June 2017
The allocation of $10 million from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) in the Commonwealth 2017-18 budget is a fantastic endorsement of our work an organisation. Never before has prevention received such a high proportion of any research funding pool.
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MRFF funding a critical boost to prevention research
Associate Professor Sonia Wutzke | Deputy Director
24 May 2017
The Budget provided the most significant funding in years for research into the prevention of chronic disease. Here’s why it matters.
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Health research partnerships build policy relevance
Associate Professor Sonia Wutzke | Deputy Director
01 May 2017
Co-production has created an opportunity for high-quality, timely and innovative research that is relevant for policy and practice.
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Director’s update
Professor Andrew Wilson | Director
13 April 2017
The World Congress showcased Australia's many groups with rich expertise in prevention, with whom the Prevention Centre is progressively building links through shared interests. The more we can work collectively across Australia, the stronger we will be as a prevention community in influencing policy and practice.
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Director’s update
Professor Andrew Wilson | Director
09 February 2017
As a new Premier and two new health ministers settle in, 2017 is shaping up to be a critical year for the Prevention Centre.
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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.