The Global Week for #Action on #NCDs is ON.
Chronic conditions are the main cause of early death & illness in #Australia.
We need leaders to invest in promoting health & better care, & be accountable. Commitments are just the start; action changes lives!
#ActOnNCDs #LeadOnNCDs
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Victorian Greens MP Tim Read to leave politics after aggressive cancer diagnosis - but he won’t go quietly.
He’s vowed to fight the closure of VicHealth, joining Labor veterans furious at the decision #springst abc.net.au/news/2026-01-29/b…
💥 3750 ppl from Australia & 32 other countries have joined a petition urging the Victorian govt to keep #HealthPomotion leader #VicHealth #independent, & not ‘absorb’ it into the Dept Health.
✍️ Search #SaveVicHealth to learn why, then sign up c.org/9VZkNDXLDf
🤯 After 40 years of local & global impact improving lives, the world’s first #HealthPromotion agency #VicHealth is set to close.
💚 Help keep VicHealth Independent and Strong:
📝 Join us to #SaveVicHealth - Sign this Petition! c.org/khYddcGNL7 via @ChangeAUS
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Victorian Government faces massive fight over VicHealth bombshell croakey.org/victorian-govern… #publichealth
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Some home truths from former Federal Health Minister and former @VicHealth chair Nicola Roxon
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#PublicHealth
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Now updated with further commentary from health leaders: Shock and alarm greet news about VicHealth’s demise – Croakey Health Media
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Bookmark this link for ongoing coverage on VicHealth: croakey.org/category/public-…
Australia showed up for #HLM4 on #NCDs & #MentalHealth.
Hayley Jones (McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer) & I penned a recap for @CroakeyNews ahead of a debrief webinar cohosted with The George Institute on 15 Oct: georgehub.zoom.us/webinar/re…
#ActOnNCDs #LeadOnNCDs @ncdalliance #UNGA80
Next steps in the push for global action on NCDs and mental health croakey.org/next-steps-in-th… #publichealth
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👏Australia is taking the #LeadOnNCDs to support global action on NCDs!
✍️Learn more through highlights from a major event held at Parliament House earlier this year. In an insightful blog, colleagues from @McCabe_Centre, University of Melbourne’s School of Population and Global Health (@lewest) and @georgeinstitute share inspiring stories, practical strategies, and fresh perspectives as the world prepares for #HLM4.
Read it here 👉pulse.ly/qedxv3jhyg
#ActOnNCDs #UNGA80
Australia may be far from the @UN but #ChronicDisease & #MentalHealth are shared global challenges.
40+ orgs have backed a call to the Australian Government to act with ambition before & beyond #UNG80's #HLM4 on #NCDs in 2 weeks.
🔗georgeinstitute.org/our-impa…
#ActOnNCDs #LeadOnNCDs
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.@IndigenousNCDs is calling for acknowledgement of Indigenous Peoples in the Poltical Declaration of the 4th UN High Level Meeting on #NCDs and #Mental Health.
Download the call to aciton here: indigenousncds.org/uploads/1…
#ActOnNCDs #LeadOnNCDs #UNHLM #HLM4
The world's 370 Million Indigenous People have leadership, strengths and wisdom to bring to global and national efforts to reduce the preventable and inequitable burden of #NCDs on morbidity and mortality. indigenousncds.org
#ActOnNCDs #LeadOnNCDs #UNHLM
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Prof Bruce Neal @georgeinstitute summarises some key themes from “Leading & Leading - Australia’s role in accelerating action on NCDs” - collaboration, equity, voice, commitment, investment, hope, energy and ambition.
Time to #ActOnNCDs #LeadOnNCDs
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Full room at Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra for an important and inspiring conversation about learning, leadership, and whole of government, cross sectoral collaboration to accelerate progress on improving health and wellbeing #ActOnNCDs #LeadOnNCDs
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Sonia McCarthy @DFAT: when we talk about integration, we shouldn’t only talk about btwn disease siloes; We must also pay more attention to integrating with other sectors that may not see health as relevant to their area but they are key to improving health.
#ActOnNCDs #LeadOnNCDs
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Jordie Kilby highlights increasing attention @WorldBank is paying to helping countries address #NCDs through health system strengthening & primary care. Currently building regional partnerships incl. w @DFAT to take multi-country approach to tackling NCDs. #ActOnNCDs #LeadOnNCDs
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Joanna Munro @hw_queensland reflects on the positive impact of partnerships to strengthen prevention in Queensland’s health system, effectively delivering tailored behaviour change programmes to prevent & reduce progression of #NCDs like type 2 diabetes. #ActOnNCDs #LeadOnNCDs
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Keziah Bennett-Brooke @georgeinstitute emphasises the role of cultural determinants of health, the need for reciprocity & shared learning, to shift power & decolonise global health, and recognise that how we define #health is not the same for all people. #ActOnNCDs #LeadOnNCDs
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Dr Sonia McCathy, @dfat reflects on opportunities for Australia to both support other countries to #ActOnNCDs drawing on our experiences, and also to learn from other countries, and the importance of collaborating with civil society to drive change together. #LeadOnNCDs
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Raglan Maddox, ANU shares how the Tackling Indigenous Smoking initiative is a great example of how health solutions start in communities. #ActOnNCDs #LeadOnNCDs
