First-trimester screening and intervention has the greatest potential to prevent maternal syphilis. But 1 in 4 pregnant people do not have access to prenatal care during the first trimester.
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The Epidemic Intelligence Service has been a crucial tool in fighting diseases at home and abroad. Its impact would be impossible to replace.
Medicare encourages providers to deliver more services, not to deliver good quality care. Here’s why that needs to change.
Funding announced in this week’s federal budget moves Australia closer to eliminating HIV.
Here’s how we design a fairer pathology system, fit for the 21st century, with no out-of-pocket costs or the public.
The rate of very high psychological distress is rising most steeply in the middle aged, especially in middle-aged women on low incomes. New funding should match this need.
Public health remains the Cinderella of services when it comes to health budgets. But the pandemic has shown why New Zealand urgently needs a better investment approach.
The New Zealand government is set to introduce sweeping reforms to the country’s health system. But without changes in how the system is funded, will the reforms achieve their goals?
Scientific knowledge is a critical driver for human health and wellbeing, economic development and environmental sustainability.
New Zealanders have, in principle, access to free healthcare. But inequality is a major issue, affecting Māori and Pasifika communities and New Zealanders living with disabilities or in poverty.
Some hard lessons have been learned along the way but the contact tracing system in Victoria is now very comprehensive and increasingly robust.
How do we develop new drugs quickly yet safely? How prepared are we to give up some personal freedoms? And how do we allocate scarce resources? These are just some of the tough questions we face.
To reverse brain drain, the government should create a conducive environment for investment that will ensure employment opportunities
Research is the foundation for evidence-based policies. But because of funding prohibitions, there’s little US research to inform the contentious debate around gun violence and gun control.
A strike by Kenyan nurses points to the country’s failure to manage the devolution of responsibility for health care from national to county governments.
Horrific mass shootings in the US typically renew the national debate about gun policy. A gun researcher explains the lack of funding for study in this area and what that means for informed policy.
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Penn State
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Associate Professor, Public Health Ethics, School of Population Health, UNSW
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Lecturer, Department of Public Health, University of Otago
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Director of Science, Ifakara Health Institute
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Professor, University of Otago
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Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, Haematologist/BMT Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Director, Praxis Australia, University of Sydney
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor, Griffith University
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Head of Population Health Unit, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme
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Professor of Economics and Co-Director, Centre for Social Data Analytics, AUT, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Executive Dean, Bond Business School, Bond University
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Senior Research Advisor, Wellcome Trust, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme