Media coverage

The Prevention Centre wants to engage with the broader community about the prevention of lifestyle-related chronic disease. This section includes media coverage of our work and events. For all media enquiries, contact the Prevention Centre’s Communications Manager by email, or phone; T +61 2 9188 9530.

Collegial advocate of urban visions splendid

13 November 2019: Print article in The Australian on Professor Billie Giles-Corti’s collegial liveability research.

Is personalised medicine a triumph of hype over hope?

29 October 2019: ABC Big Ideas program promotes precision medicine forum that was held in partnership with Sydney Ideas on 2 October 2019.

Is hate speech a public health issue?

2 October 2019: ABC Radio National Breakfast host Geraldine Doogue interviews Professor Sandro Galea.

Treating hate as a public health issue

30 September 2019: ABC TV The Drum host Ellen Fanning interviews Professor Sandro Galea.

Public health, illness and an unjust society

30 September 2019: ABC Radio Late Night Live host Phillip Adams interviews Professor Sandro Galea.

Time to invest in health, not just health care

30 September 2019: MJA InSight op ed by Professor Sandro Galea, Dean School of Public Health, Boston University.

Smash the silos that constrain public health

12 June 2019: Public health practitioners have been urged to “smash the silos” that constrain their work, and to engage with champions for public health outside the sector.

Patchy report card for states on obesity prevention efforts

2 April 2019: Public health experts have assessed states' and territories' obesity prevention efforts and have found progress is mixed.