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Edition 42 | February–March 2021
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FROM OUR CO-DIRECTORS
In 2021, Co-Director Professor Lucie Rychetnik looks forward to working with the Centre's growing number of collaborations and networks, including our thriving early and mid-career research network, and three new communities of practice. Read more
NEWS | Obesity stigma is a barrier to action
To mark World Obesity Day on March 4, the Prevention Centre and four associated CREs have called for a change in the prevailing narrative around obesity. Our research shows that framing obesity as individual choice or personal failure is preventing effective management of this continued serious threat to Australia’s health and wellbeing. Read more
BLOG | parkrun a prescription for better health
Dr Anne Grunseit's research shows that parkrun, one of the world’s largest and most successful physical activity interventions, has physical, mental and social co-benefits. It's a good reminder that prevention often occurs outside health, and that we need environments conducive to physical activity for similar community-led approaches to flourish. Read more
Engagement creates liveability research that resonates
#PreventionWorksLIVE is a masterclass series with Australia’s leading innovators on creating a healthier Australia. The series, hosted by the Prevention Centre, examines how change-makers have achieved real impact for the health and wellbeing of communities.
Our first masterclass will feature Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti on Thursday 11 March 2021, focusing on how to achieve impact and create change for healthier liveable cities. Professor Giles-Corti has led the study of liveability in Australia – that is, how urban environments can help deliver better health outcomes. Join us for an insightful session as Professor Giles-Corti shares how to create research that has real-world impact.
NEWS | Innovative mobile phone app boosts data collection in adolescent cohort
A pilot study run as part of a Prevention Centre project to tackle child obesity has demonstrated that using a mobile phone app to collect data on an adolescent health cohort is more responsive and offers greater flexibility than traditional methods. Combined with in-built smartphone sensors, it can assess detailed trajectories of health behaviours over time. Read more
NEW PODCAST | ‘Soft power’ comes from engaging the public with prevention as a science
In the latest PreventionWorks podcast, Professor Penny Hawe, Professor of Public Health at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and a member of the Prevention Centre’s Leadership Executive, finds creative ways to help the preventive health message cut through with the public. “I just want to make prevention science interesting," she says. Read more
Evidence and Implementation Summit
30-31 March 2021: This is one of the leading evidence and implementation sector events with participants from over 70 countries. Subscribers to The Chronicle will receive a 15% discount when registering if they use the code: Prevention Read more
Official launch of new prevention CRE
Led by Chief Investigator Professor Helen Skouteris of Monash University, founding CERI member, the CRE in Health in Preconception and Pregnancy (CRE HiPP) will focus on women's lifestyle health during the pivotal reproductive stage. Read more
Invitation: Citizen science survey
PhD candidate Leah Marks is conducting this survey to better understand how and why policy and practice stakeholders in preventive health engage with public in their work. The research team would appreciate your participation in this 15-minute survey. Read more
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