The Chronicle is a monthly newsletter about the Prevention Centre’s people and projects. It features resources and events related to systems thinking and the prevention of chronic disease.
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Recent editions
Edition 66 | May 2023
The May Chronicle includes a wrap of the 2023 PHAA Preventive Health Conference where our Co-Director Professor Lucie Rychetnik shared lessons from a decade of the Prevention Centre. Presentations at the conference included an urgent call from our researchers for action to address food security issues including the growing costs of recommended healthy diets. Professor Emily Banks features in our latest Prevention Works podcast discussing the release of Australia’s National Tobacco Strategy 2022-2030 and the evidence on the health risks of vaping. And much more…
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Edition 65 | April 2023
The April Chronicle is published on the eve of the 2023 PHAA Preventive Health Conference where we will be celebrating a decade of Prevention Centre connections with researchers, policy makers and practitioners. We explore the ripple effect of prevention with a co-benefits approach and hear from Dr Katherine Trebeck in a new Prevention Works podcast on how a wellbeing economy approach could promote health equality for future generations. Our latest Findings Brief addresses the gap in data for how to embed multisectoral collaboration to positively impact health and wellbeing. And much more…
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Edition 64 | March 2023
The March Chronicle shares news of an exciting research project on vaping prevention that will rapidly produce evidence for policy to tackle e-cigarette use in adolescents. Renowned epidemiologist Sir Michael Marmot is our latest Prevention Works podcast guest and we debut a brief video from the Prevention Centre Co-Directors reflecting on our decade in chronic disease prevention. We are also looking forward to the PHAA 2023 Preventive Health Conference with more than 40 presentations from researchers, practitioners and policy decision makers in our network. And much more…
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Edition 63 | February 2023
The first Chronicle of 2023 celebrates the Prevention Centre’s decade in chronic disease prevention. Over these 10 years our systems approach has highlighted the many co-benefits of prevention and we start the year with a greater focus on sharing the value of a co-benefits approach. We share the latest research from the Australian Systems Approaches to Physical Action (ASAPa) team and the first study of its kind on the benefits of e-health interventions for overweight and obesity in adolescents. Our events calendar is already looking busy and there are several new journal articles from our researchers to share. And much more…
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Edition 62 | December 2022
The last Chronicle of 2022 features a new Prevention Centre knowledge synthesis, this time tackling public health law with the rules and frameworks that shape the social and commercial determinants of health and help make the case for prevention. We share our submission on the role and functions of the proposed Australian Centre for Disease Control and a policy brief on how a sugar-sweetened beverage tax is the best buy to reduce child obesity. With several new Prevention Works podcasts now available, we have your listening needs covered for the holiday season. We also introduce the new Sax Institute CEO and share well wishes from our Co-Directors for the end of year. And much more…
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Edition 61 | November 2022
The Prevention Centre celebrates a remarkable year of growth for the Collaboration for Enhanced Research Impact (CERI) which now includes 11 Centres for Research Excellence with SPHERE CRE the latest member to join. We also continue the first birthday celebrations for the ‘new’ Prevention Centre website and the popularity of systems thinking. Our research on economic costs of alcohol-related harms has developed an interactive costing tool to estimate impact at the local government level and a new Prevention Works podcast discusses health literacy for CALD communities. And much more…
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