Director of Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne
Melbourne
Joined July 2009
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There are a few poor regions of Northern Europe but no poor countries. #ImSNP for independence
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Launching a call for original research on Health Systems and Diabetes. If type 2 diabetes were a communicable disease WHO would have declared it a pandemic the last 40 years, Please forward to your network.
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What is happening to socio-economic patterning of NCD risks across the world, and might the aggressive marketing of infant from the 1960s onwards in LMICs have something to do with it? New paper.
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Time to bring health systems analyses to bear on economic evaluation conclusions? You might get more policy buy-in.
irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/… I'm often asked 'Why Liverpool?' as I have no particular connection to the City - here's a piece that captures why, if there's any English team a ScotNat or antiestablishmentarian can support, it's Liverpool.
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Congratulations to our home city of Liverpool on winning the FA cup!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
To celebrate we’re sharing our artwork ‘Painting The Town Red’.
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"Gove wants to privatise the NHS, Johnson wants to charge people for health services and Duncan Smith advocates moving to a social insurance system. The NHS is about as safe with them as a pet hamster would be with a hungry python..." - former Tory Prime Minister, Sir John Major.
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We couldn’t agree with this more.
Please RT if you do too, and follow us to help the fight against privatisation of the NHS.
It’s a battle none of us can afford to lose.
#ScrapTheBill
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WHO are urging #COP26 attendees to put #Health at the heart of #ClimateTalks. Dr Gillian Lê explores why.
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#ClimateReport #ClimateChange
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Our Principal Advisor, Reihana Mohideen, is working with @IEEESA's Dignity, Inclusion, Identity, Trust, and Agency Program to integrate #GenderEquality & #SocialInclusion in system design, policy & planning of energy projects.
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Economic assessments of #HealthCare funding need to move to include the significant societal contributions by the elderly. Read more by Prof Ajay Mahal et al in @theMJA
#FinancingMatters #MBS @unimelbMSPGH @bmcpake
Valuing the elderly: limitations of cost-effectiveness models … Prof Ajay Mahal et al write #freeaccess in InSight+ … "more attention needs to be directed to underused interventions that could help unlock socially productive capacity of elderly" insightplus.mja.com.au/2021/… #medtwit
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If everybody who is in favour of this followed and retweeted we’d reach a million followers by midnight and be much stronger together.
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Who wants to kill you by telling you not to get the vaccine and why? @bmcpake discusses who benefits from increasing your chances of dying in this pandemic.
#IssuesInGlobalHealth @UniMelbMDHS @enenbee @H_S_Global
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@bmcpake I feel so proud to have studied my PhD at the @NossalInstitute. Thanks for the wonderful mentorship and team work @alison__morgan @meghanbohren @googarmstrong and @ Michelle Kermode
@AntenehAsef research has improved global understanding of respectful maternity care and has influenced policy in Ethiopia. Anteneh shares his experience studying a #PHD at #NossalInstitute ow.ly/vc1b50Gnptp
#MaternalHealth @UniMelbMDHS @bmcpake
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@AntenehAsef research has improved global understanding of respectful maternity care and has influenced policy in Ethiopia. Anteneh shares his experience studying a #PHD at #NossalInstitute ow.ly/vc1b50Gnptp
#MaternalHealth @UniMelbMDHS @bmcpake
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"They say we are money minded… But we just do it quietly, otherwise even those with money will come & say that ‘we are being discriminated’"
Paper explores how the private health sector thrives in high poverty settings in Uganda
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Hats off to the @NossalInstitute team led by @bmcpake for designing such an informative, interesting and thought-provoking course! 👏