Indonesia has the world’s second-highest rates of TB – but lack of funding means not enough people are being diagnosed and treated fast enough.
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With the advent of novel tobacco products and the tobacco industry falsely marketing them as less harmful, the adage “prevention is better than cure” has never been more important.
Recent calls by Australian government ministers and senior officials to broaden the goods and services tax (GST) base to include fresh fruit and vegetables would make the population’s diet go from bad…
When the English cricket team toured Australia last year they were ridiculed for their dietary requirements long before their humiliation on the pitch. But while English cricket may be wanting, England’s…
One in nine Australians over the age of 25 (that’s 1.7 million people) has chronic kidney disease. That’s more than the number living with chronic lung disease, stroke, heart failure, and all types of…
The biggest causes of ill health in all but the very least developed countries are now non-communicable or chronic diseases. Lung cancer from smoking, obesity from an unhealthy diet and liver problems…
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Executive Director, George Institute Australia; Professor of Medicine, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Director of Nephrology, Monash University
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Medical student, University of Tasmania
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Research fellow, George Institute for Global Health
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Program Manager, Resilience Development Initiative (RDI)
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Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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Children, Social Welfare, and Health Research Officer, Resilience Development Initiative (RDI)
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Executive Director, Professor of Medicine, George Institute for Global Health
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Research Officer, Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town