The Prevention Centre embedded as a Centre of the Sax Institute

After more than a decade of hosting and administering the Prevention Centre, the Sax Institute continues to support this partnership for the prevention of chronic disease as one of its embedded Centres. This ensures sustainability for the Prevention Centre and enables us to draw on the Sax Institute’s portfolio of programs including Aboriginal health, systems modelling, evaluation support, and evidence reviews.

Under this arrangement, the Prevention Centre is led by the Sax Institute’s Head of Prevention, Nadia Mastersson, and CEO, Dr Martin McNamara.

The Sax Institute is an independent evidence specialist working collaboratively to embed research into the fabric of policy, program and service delivery decisions for more than 20 years. As part of the Sax Institute, the Prevention Centre continues to facilitate collaborative networks and approaches among research and policy agencies to address the complex challenge of chronic disease prevention in Australia.

The Sax Institute is focused on driving the use of evidence to address Australia’s health challenges. By establishing the Prevention Centre as an embedded Centre of the Sax Institute, we can continue to build on the last decade of achievements of the Centre while finding new and innovative ways to collaborate and expand our networks and capabilities locally and internationally.

Dr Martin McNamara, CEO Sax Institute

As a Centre of the Sax Institute, we continue our highly valued role to support the national prevention system, particularly in building and strengthening systems approaches to prevention and innovations in communicating the importance and value of chronic disease prevention research.

Our funding partners are central to our success and include the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, ACT Health, Cancer Council Australia, NSW Ministry of Health, Preventive Health SA, Tasmanian Department of Health, and VicHealth.

Together with our policy funding partners and the research community, we co-design our approaches to strive towards an effective, efficient and equitable system for the prevention of chronic disease. We continue to build system leadership, support new knowledge and accelerate the use of evidence and methods to inform chronic disease prevention policy and practice.

With the strength of our policy and research partnerships, and sustainably embedded within the Sax Institute, the Prevention Centre is perfectly positioned for another decade as Australia’s leading national collaboration for prevention.

Nadia Mastersson, Head, Prevention

Through our national research and policy networks, we continue to provide opportunities for early and mid-career researchers and policy partners to collaborate with Australian and international leaders in prevention. Our Emerging Leaders Network now has more than 300 members who exchange ideas, broaden their networks across the prevention system.

With a growing media and social media presence, we are a leader in Australia’s prevention community for communicating the value of prevention. Our newsletters, research seminars and communities of practice facilitate collaboration and the sharing of new knowledge. Prevention Centre-hosted events connect researchers, policy makers and practitioners within and outside the prevention community.