Terry Slevin@terryslevin

CEO @_PHAA_ Adjunct Professor at ANU and Curtin Univ. Swimmer, Dad, shameless users of out of date pics. Living on Ngunnawal country. Proud Public Healtherer.

 Canberra, Australian Capital T
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Joined June 2009
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Gary Sacks@gary_sacks
14 Apr 2024
Do Health Star Ratings lead to people buying healthier food? Our new paper, led by Satheesh Seenivasan, looked at food sales in Aus over 5 yrs. Short answer: yes! But it would work better if all products were mandated to have it: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3860… @GLOBE_Deakin @IHT_Deakin

Trends (2014-2018) in the healthiness of packaged food purchases of Australian consumers before and...

In Australia, once a substantial number of packaged food products adopted the voluntary HSR summary indicator, we observed an increasing trend in the healthiness of household food purchases. Widesp...

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ANZJPH@anzjph
24 Mar 2024
ANZJPH in the news: @CosmosMagazine reports on new @SLSAustralia research exploring causes of death on Aussie beaches cosmosmagazine.com/australia… @_PHAA_

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theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Big tobacco is back, aided and abetted by the Nationals. We can’t let them win on vapes | Monique...

The government’s vaping legislation is a courageous start but it leaves gaping integrity issues unresolved

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Doctors urge politicians not to be swayed by ‘misleading’ comments on vaping ban from industry-fu...

Public health experts say reforms will not affect prescription vapes after Greens and Nationals raise concerns of ‘prohibition’ approach

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Great news The system is indeed broken. Irrational. We are keen to support a fairer system @_PHAA_ @anzjph theguardian.com/australia-ne…

Australia’s chief scientist takes on the journal publishers gatekeeping knowledge

Under Dr Cathy Foley’s world-first open access model, all Australians would have access to research papers for free

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Where is humanity?
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21 Feb 2024
#Gaza: "What type of world do we live in when health workers are at risk of being bombed as they carry out their life saving work?" - @WHO chief, Tedros Ghebreyesus
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PHAA WA supports a minimum floor price on alcohol, which is a proven strategy to reduce alcohol related harm. See a letter to the editor written by our president, published in the West Australian on the 17th February.
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ANZJPH@anzjph
15 Feb 2024
What did researchers uncover when they analysed rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander COVID19 vaccination across georgraphic areas? Find out in this latest article: doi.org/10.1016/j.anzjph.202…
Figure 2. Cluster and outlier analysis of the cumulative COVID-19 vaccination coverage for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders across LGAs. Abbreviation: LGA = Local Government Area. (A map of Australia with different areas highlighted in different colours.)

ALT Figure 2. Cluster and outlier analysis of the cumulative COVID-19 vaccination coverage for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders across LGAs. Abbreviation: LGA = Local Government Area. (A map of Australia with different areas highlighted in different colours.)

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abc.net.au/news/2024-02-13/s… published in @anzjph this week

New sun safety advice has been developed for diverse skin types. Here's what it says

Clinicians, patient organisations and medical researchers are updating advice around sun exposure to explicitly recognise different skin types.

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Kate Chaney
@ChaneyforCurtin
12 Feb 2024
Well… will it? That’s the question I asked in Parliament today. It’s been nearly 8 months since we released our Committee report into gambling reform, which recommended a ban on gambling ads. We’re still waiting for the Government to decide. #bangamblingads #auspol
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Great piece on a fine Public health leader. Worth a read
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Get your tickets now for the #PreventiveMentalHealth Symposium. 12 March in Melbourne 👇🏼
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It's the first day of #COP10FCTC and we are looking forward to speaking with delegates about our #supplychain database and other #tobaccocontrol research. 🇵🇦
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New estimates show that about 1 in 5 people globally will develop #cancer.   This #WorldCancerDay, @WHO remains committed to supporting every country to prevent, detect and treat cancer for all people.
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