Professor Wiggers is a population health researcher whose work is related to the prevention of tobacco and alcohol-related harms and the prevention of child obesity.
Professor Wilson is Co-Director of The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre and Co-Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney.
Associate Professor Sonia Wutzke, Deputy Director of The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, died suddenly and unexpectedly on 22 December, 2017.
Prevention Centre research and our researchers were front and centre at last month’s PHAA Preventive Health Conference 2021 with public health and prevention experts coming together, in person and online, to discuss “Facing the new normal or prevention in 2021 and beyond”.
This rapid review was prepared by the Prevention Centre to provide a summary of the evidence base on the value of prevention. It focuses on identifying and demonstrating the value of prevention in an Australian context.
In the second year of the pandemic response, we are able to look back critically and try to learn from it. I think there are 10 important lessons for those of us researching the prevention of chronic disease.