Prevention Centre blog

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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Exploring systems and complexity: an intern’s insights

Jean (Zhuo Jing) Wang | Prevention Tracker Intern, McMaster University, Canada

24 November 2017

Canadian intern Jean (Zhuo Jing) Wang shares some of her insights from a three-month internship with the Prevention Centre.

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Director’s update

Professor Andrew Wilson | Director

10 October 2017

One of the challenges of health research is maintaining continuity of effort through funding cycles. We have been very fortunate at the Prevention Centre to have had five years of funding.

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Technology is only part of the answer

Associate Professor Sonia Wutzke | Deputy Director

28 August 2017

This article explores the role of health technologies in efforts to prevent chronic disease in Australia.

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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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