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Innovative mobile phone app boosts data collection in adolescent cohort
22 February 2021
A pilot study run by the Prevention Centre has demonstrated that using a mobile phone app to collect data on an adolescent …
Obesity stigma is a barrier to action
22 February 2021
It is time to change the prevailing narrative around obesity – that it is due to individual choice or personal failure – …
PreventionWorks LIVE
3 December 2020
Announcing new series of events and podcasts from the Prevention Centre Stories from Australia’s change-makers in public health PreventionWorks LIVE is a …
Impact of COVID-19 on the health and wellbeing of Australian adolescents
3 December 2020
Study finds wellbeing impacted due to isolation A Prevention Centre project using social media to target Australian adolescents about their health was …
Affordability of healthy diets and the COVID-19 pandemic
3 December 2020
Researchers call for fully-supplemented JobSeeker rates to be retained permanently Researchers examined the positive impact of additional payments and supplements to unemployment …
The power of working together: Research centres join forces in major new platform for prevention
3 December 2020
Four Centres of Research Excellence (CREs) have teamed with the Prevention Centre to form a critical mass of more than 350 leading …
Pitfalls and promise: A relational approach for connecting with policy makers
6 November 2020
2 December 2020 Professor Marc Stears, University of Sydney, was the keynote speaker at the Prevention Centre’s Research Network meeting in October. …
‘Taking up smoking’ rates declining in adolescent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
23 September 2020
Rate of ‘never smoked’ adolescents has increased by 20% in a decade Using data from the Australian Secondary School Students’ Alcohol and …