Caroline Miller
carolinemiller.bsky.social
Caroline Miller
@carolinemiller.bsky.social
Director Health Policy Centre @sahmri.bsky.social
Professor, School of Public Health, Uni of Adelaide
President, @publichealthaus.bsky.social
NHMRC EL2 Fellow
Reposted by Caroline Miller
PHAA fully supports the LiveLighter SA campaign launched by Health Min @chrispicton.bsky.social, Preventive Health SA, & Prof @carolinemiller.bsky.social, Health Policy Centre Director of @sahmri.bsky.social, who is also PHAA President.

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Hard hitting campaign launched to address obesity and encourage South Australians to live lighter
Graphic advertisements showing the damaging impact of toxic fat on the body will spearhead a new campaign to address the obesity epidemic in South Australia.
www.preventivehealth.sa.gov.au
June 28, 2025 at 5:10 AM
South Australia tops the nation with an A+ for tobacco and vaping control. "In SA, there have been over 500 inspections.. seizing millions of dollars’ worth of illicit cigarettes and vapes." Bravo @chrispicton.bsky.social Mark Butler Peter Malinauskus @sahmri.bsky.social @publichealthaus.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Reposted by Caroline Miller
📢 NEW ARTICLE

National survey finds strong public support for action on sugary drinks:

✅ 83% support improved labelling
✅ 73% support restricting marketing to children
✅ 56% support a health levy

Also support for better labelling of non-sugar sweetened drinks & juice.

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
May 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Reposted by Caroline Miller
Our President, Prof @carolinemiller.bsky.social, spoke to ABC Radio Perth about her @anzjph.bsky.social paper on strong support for measures to counter sugary and sweetened drinks.

The interview begins at 2:21:59:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

More about the study: shorturl.at/NBEL1
Drive - ABC listen
We reveal WA's Top Tourism Towns for 2025 and the State Opposition ramps up criticism over a proposed bare knuckle boxing event in Perth
www.abc.net.au
May 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Reposted by Caroline Miller
75 years this week since evidence confirming that smoking is lethal with Wynder & Graham’s landmark May 27, 1950 JAMA paper “Tobacco smoking as a possible etiologic factor in bronchiogenic carcinoma” then Doll & Hill’s historic September 30, 1950 BMJ “Smoking and carcinoma of the lung”.
May 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Molecules in urine and blood can reveal how much of a person’s diet comes from ultra-processed foods

https://go.nature.com/3YUfWIt
How much ultra-processed food do you eat? Blood and urine record it
Nature - Samples could provide an objective measure of diets and help to unravel their contribution to disease.
go.nature.com
May 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Reposted by Caroline Miller
This new agency will help save lives, and prolong the lives of people across SA, because prevention is better than cure.
Well done everyone in front of the scenes, and those who've quietly toiled for years, to help make the new agency, Preventive Health SA, happen. www.preventivehealth.sa.gov.au
Preventive Health SA •
Preventive Health SA is leading a dedicated program of prevention work to support the health and wellbeing of all South Australians
www.preventivehealth.sa.gov.au
November 29, 2024 at 2:56 AM