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Save UTS Public Health School and strengthen health education intouchpublichealth.net.au/save-uts-pub...
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Save UTS Public Health School and strengthen health education : Intouch Public Health
Public health education is not an optional extra.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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🔔 This week in InSight+

Government’s addiction to fossil fuels ‘catching up with us, killing us,’ says Senator David Pocock

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October 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Next up in the #SavingtheWorld webinar series by Planetary Health Equity Hothouse: Ashley Schram unpacks how public policy shapes privilege & drives health inequities —and what it takes to undo it
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amycarrad.bsky.social Amy Carrad @amycarrad.bsky.social · Oct 9
“Unprecedented wealth inequality is neither accidental nor inevitable - it is structurally produced, politically protected and culturally normalised” - Ashley Schram.
If you want to hear more words of wisdom like these, tune into this webinar on 23rd October: hothouse.anu.edu.au/event/doing-...
Doing (and undoing) privilege: how public policy drives health inequities | Planetary Health Equity Hothouse
Episode 25 of the Saving the World webinar series features Associate Professor Ashley Schram.
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October 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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On #WorldRabiesDay, we renew our commitment to eliminating rabies—a critical #OneHealth challenge that affects both humans and animals
whowpro.bsky.social World Health Organization Western Pacific Region @whowpro.bsky.social · Sep 28
By working together through the #OneHealth approach connecting human, animal and environmental health, we can #EndRabiesNow together.

Learn how to protect yourself, your loved ones, your community and your pets. 👇
How does rabies spread: Rabies spreads via saliva, usually through bites, scratches, or direct contact with mucosa, such as eyes, mouth, or open wounds. Avoid being bitten to prevent rabies: Avoid unfamiliar dogs, including street dogs. Stay still like a tree if near a suspected rabid dog. Don't shout or kick. Reduce your risk of rabies. What to do if bitten by a dog: Don’t pull away from the dog. Hold still. Wash all wounds with soap and running water for 15 mins. Use an antiseptic, if available. Seek medical care immediately, and get vaccinated if advised. A delay can be deadly. Protect your animal and community from rabies: Vaccinate your pets against rabies. Report suspected rabid dogs or other animals. Support mass dog vaccination of free-roaming dogs.
September 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Health is gradually getting worse in Australia.
Tobacco use, overweight, and dietary risks are among the top risk factors contributing to the disease burden, says Dr Steve Robson, addressing the delegates of #AustPH2025.
Aust #PublicHealth Conf, 16 - 18 Sept, Wollongong/Dharawal Country.
September 16, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Victoria showing Australia that truth, justice, and Indigenous self-determination can be done. #Treaty
aunz.theconversation.com The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · Sep 10
If successful, Victoria will demonstrate to the nation that truth, justice, and Indigenous self-determination can finally move from rhetoric to reality.
Victoria is on the cusp of signing a Treaty with Indigenous people. It could change lives
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September 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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How can we make sense of authoritarian politics?

What does the weaking of democratic institutions mean for #PublicHealth?

Find out Mon 15 Sept in Wollongong / Dharawal Country, hosted by @phaa-onehealth.bsky.social & our Political Economy SIG.

www.austph2025.com/workshop
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Political Economy of Health and One Health special interest groups workshop. Democracy and Public Health in a Trumpian world. Monday 15 Sept, 10am-4pm, Novotel Wollongong Northbeach.
September 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Add your name to the call to make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing✍️
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Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians
Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year. Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...
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September 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
ximenaepi.bsky.social
Milk choice has an environmental impact. Plant-based milks (oat & soy) have a lower environmental footprint. Good to see coffee shops eliminating surcharges for plant-based milk
September 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Opinion piece from Prof Allen Cheng @peripatetical.bsky.social on this milestone for Australia - the upcoming Australian CDC #AUCDC #PublicHealth
Ensuring its political independence is paramount if we are to avoid issues that plagues the US CDC in recent times
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September 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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'Hector' linocut by UK contemporary artist and #printmaker Vanessa Lubach #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print featuring a sitting black cat against a blue and white floral pattern background
September 6, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Heading to #AustPH2025 conference in Wollongong next month? Don’t miss the @publichealthaus.bsky.social y.social workshop hosted by two brilliant SIGs. Explore how rising authoritarianism & weakening democracies are shaping public health globally & what we can do about it. Details 👇🏽
August 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Join us for "Pacific Island Migrations: From Plantations to PALM Workers" at Bankstown Arts Centre next Saturday August 23, 2 - 4pm with speakers Rosaline Parker, Moni Taumoepeau and Winnie Dunn
August 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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#PhD #scholarship on violence against #women and displacement in the #Pacific contributing to the Centre of Excellence on the Elimination of Violence Against Women at #ANU #Canberra #AUS. #endVAW #gender study.anu.edu.au/scholarships...
PhD scholarship on violence against women and displacement in the Pacific contributing to the Centre of Excellence on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW) | The Australian National Univer...
PhD scholarship on violence against women and displacement in the Pacific contributing to the Centre of Excellence on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW), A unique funded opportunity to ...
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August 6, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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New MSF report on #Gaza. Based on medical data, patients’ testimonies, and first-hand medical witnessing at two MSF clinics in Gaza, the report finds violence by Israeli forces & private American contractors against starved Palestinians at GHF points. #genocide #intlaw msf.org.uk/article/msf-...
MSF Gaza report: This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing
GHF-run food distributions in Gaza are sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation” that must be shut down
msf.org.uk
August 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Have you read our #NAIDOC2025 special issue, curated by @summermay.bsky.social?

It features Nona’s powerful call for Torres Strait Islander led research and self-determination in the face of climate change.

🔗 Article: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
🔗 Full issue: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
July 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Burnet Institute would like to commend the MJA Special Issue on Indigenous Health published to mark NAIDOC Week. All nine papers in this issue highlight evidence and solutions created by and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. @mja.com.au

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“Carving our path with spirit, strength and solidarity” - InSight+
The MJA has published its second Special Issue on Indigenous Health to coincide with the 2025 NAIDOC week. The issue is called “Carving our path with spirit, strength and solidarity”. And like last ye...
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July 14, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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How Indigenous peoples are leading the way in climate litigation: new paper – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/how-indigeno...
By Francis Nona, Nina Lansbury, Veronica Matthews, Kris Vine and Lillian Ireland
#Lowitja2025
How Indigenous peoples are leading the way in climate litigation: new paper
Introduction: Indigenous peoples are taking a leading role, globally and in Australia, in climate litigation as a strategic platform for
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June 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Nothing like a policurve to explain the (AU) 2 party trajectory #auspol
grogsgamut.bsky.social Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · May 5
Some asked for the two parties split up
May 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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FEiA is recruiting a Program Coordinator to lead the coordination and delivery of the Rapid Response Team Program in the National Department of Health in Papua New Guinea.

💼 Rapid Response Team Program Coordinator

Closes: 10 May 2025

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#FETP #Hiring
PROGRAM COORDINATOR - PNG Rapid Response Team Program — Field Epidemiology in Action
The University of Newcastle's Field Epidemiology in Action (FEiA) team is seeking to engage a consultant Program Coordinator to lead the Rapid Response Team Program (RRT) in the National Department of...
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April 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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As I watch to see what rain ex-tropical cyclone Alfred brings I wrote a Conversation article
Brisbane is bracing for floods yet again. History shows residents should remain on very high alert
Brisbane is a subtropical city of more than 2.5 million people, situated on a flood-prone river. That’s why residents mustn’t get complacent after Cyclone Alfred.
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March 8, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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For those interested, here is the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's definition of Tropical Cyclone (TC) categories. #TCAlfred is currently a Cat2 TC with talk that it *may* lift to a Cat3 while still at sea (links next).

www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/trop...
March 5, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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ICYMI: calls for "a global solidarity reboot", truth-telling, courageous public health leaders who will speak up, and health-protecting regulation https://www.croakey.org/icymi-calls-for-a-global-solidarity-reboot-truth-telling-courageous-public-health-leaders-who-will-speak-up-and-health-protectin…
ICYMI: calls for "a global solidarity reboot", truth-telling, courageous public health leaders who will speak up, and health-protecting regulation
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January 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Did you know we produce the peer reviewed, multidisciplinary, #OpenAccess Australian and New Zealand Journal of #PublicHealth (ANZJPH)?

Follow it @anzjph.bsky.social and read the entire archive for free at www.sciencedirect.com/journal/aust...

It averages more than one million downloads annually.
Our official publication, the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, is now on Bluesky. Follow it: @anzjph.bsky.social Logos of the association, journal, and Bluesky.
November 27, 2024 at 5:26 AM