Prevention Works
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
How health literacy can combat misinformation and improve health for all
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
During COVID many of us struggled to understand those in charge of giving the latest health advice. Many of us worried about the best course of action...
Measuring the cost of diets can help people make healthier food choices
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr Meron Lewis discusses her Prevention Centre-sponsored PhD research project that measured the cost and affordability of diets in lo...
Ten years of preventive health - what have we learned?
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre discuss our first decade in chronic disease prevention research. Join host Gretchen Miller a...
Why funding for public health research needs a more strategic approach
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses why now is the right time for taking a more strategic approach to chronic disease research investment, based on Australia's...
A collaboration to prevent child injury in Walgett prevails through drought, fires, floods and food shortages
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast discusses a community-led program to reduce childhood injury; a successful collaboration between the First Nations community at Walgett a...
Why liveable cities are important for better health equity
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Lucy Gunn discusses how the built environment can contribute to better health outcomes, and the importance of basing policies upon research evidenc...
Examining the evidence on the health risks of vaping with Professor Emily Banks
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Emily Banks AM is a trailblazer in tobacco and e-cigarette research. Her world-leading review of the global evidence on the health effects o...
How a wellbeing economy approach can promote health equality for future generations
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr Katherine Trebeck takes listeners into a deep conversation asking why our economy is not serving enough people and takes a hard lo...
Pursuing health equity with Professor Sir Michael Marmot
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do you define and measure health equity and equality? Renowned epidemiologist Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology at University College ...
What is the role of law in the prevention of chronic disease?
11 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Dr Jenny Kaldor, lawyer, researcher, and policy analyst, and Maddie Heenan, Research Officer and PhD candidate, as they delve into how law, polic...
Leveraging advocacy for action on tobacco and obesity issues
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss with guest Jane Martin, Executive Manager of the Obesity Policy Coalition (OPC) and Alcohol and Obesity Policy at Cancer C...
Collaborating for healthier food retail
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An unhealthy diet is Australia’s key modifiable risk factor, resulting in more than 500,000 years of life lost to death and disability each year so ...
How can we improve health messaging to reach all Australians?
23 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s no surprise that half our population searches online to inform themselves, but how does that work for you when English is not your first langua...
How does housing affect our health?
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are numerous ways in which population health could benefit if housing was improved in Australia. Join host Gretchen Miller and guest Professor R...
The first 2000 days: Giving our kids the best start for a healthier life
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Gretchen Miller interviews guests Professor Helen Skouteris and Dr Alexandra Chung on the early days of our life's journey and h...
How can we prevent older Australians from fall-related injuries?
17 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join podcast host Gretchen Miller and Professor Cathie Sherrington, Chief Investigator of the Centre of Research Excellence in the Prevention of Fall-...
The value of partnership research to reduce harm from alcohol use
08 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alcohol use contributes significantly to Australia's health burden (burden of disease) as well as contributing billions of dollars each year in Austra...
Is it time to call the endgame for tobacco in Australia?
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
International expert in tobacco control policy Associate Professor Coral Gartner explores an exciting concept and hopefully eminent reality, the begin...
How can we better understand the risk factors for dementia?
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know, Australia is looking at doubling our current figures to a projected 1 million people with dementia by 2056? While our lifestyles have be...
'Soft power' for prevention comes from engaging the public with prevention as a science
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Penny Hawe, Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney and a member of the Prevention Centre's Leadership Executive, is a champion for...
Systems thinking in the community: Nothing about us, without us:
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professor Steve Allender, Professor of Public Health and Founding Director, The Global Obesity Centre (GLOBE), Deakin University, dis...
Systems thinking across disciplines: Working, moving and living within systems
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Prevention Centre Senior Research Fellow, Dr Melanie Pescud and Senior Systems Engineer, Matthew Vella as they go back to basics to discuss the f...
The past, present and future of chronic disease prevention research
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Prevention Centre's Co-Director Professor Andrew Wilson chats about his years of experience in public health, the current health crisis, and what ...
How challenging climate change will have profound benefits for public health
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest for this episode is Dr Nick Watts, a population health and public policy expert in health and climate change. This conversation is one of th...
Understanding hate through a public health lens
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What is hate? Is there an antidote? Join us for a critically reflective conversation about hate and how to redress it with Professor Sandro Galea - co...
Why complex is not the same as complicated and what this means for how we approach complex problems
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Traditionally science is based on the idea that if you work out the causes of a problem, you know how to solve it. But this reductionist view won't wo...
Bringing research into the real world: the challenges of scaling up
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode we're talking about scaling up. That's where you take a program that's worked and bring it to larger populations - a challenge for policy...
Addressing chronic pain - one of our biggest health problems in Australia
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Prevention Works visits Concord Repatriation General Hospital in Sydney to meet with Professor Fiona Blyth, who is leading a study into the prevention...
How does preventing chronic disease help reduce cancer deaths?
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Cancer Council is the only cancer charity that works across all cancer types and in several ways, from prevention to research, from support to adv...
Tackling the pandemic of diabetes in pregnancy
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Chris Nolan used to see all his pregnant mothers with diabetes in a morning. Now, he's swamped. He joins Louise Freebairn to discuss why so many pr...
How mental illness puts you at risk of chronic disease
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
People with a mental health condition are among the most vulnerable to the risk factors for chronic disease, like smoking, drinking too much and poor ...
A passion to address maternal and child obesity
09 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professors Helena Teede and Louise Baur have spent their careers addressing child obesity from very different perspectives. They chat to host Gretchen...
Why prevention policy is better than cure
07 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
ACT Chief Health Officer Dr Paul Kelly discusses the realities of making the case for prevention in this wide-ranging discussion on issues from obesit...
The power of planning to improve health in entire communities
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With Australia's population set to double by 2050, understanding the public health implications of urban planning is now more important than ever. Gre...
Improving access to healthy food in urban Aboriginal communities
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
One-fifth of Aboriginal people living in urban areas are food insecure, meaning they don't always know where the next meal is coming from. In this epi...
How do we make the easiest food choice the healthiest?
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Poor diet is the number one preventable cause of ill health globally. So what can researchers and policy makers do to make the easiest food choice the...
How can we use the law to help improve our health?
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When a lot of Australians think about public health law, they think about the "nanny state". However, we have laws to thank for a lot of the policies ...
Tackling how to get Australians moving each and every day
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Australia is a nation of beautiful beaches and parks, temperate weather and safe streets. And yet, Finnish people are more active in the depths of the...