Melissa Sweet
Editor-in-Chief at Croakey News
Public Health Journalist at Freelance
Journalist sharing news re health equity, First Nations health, climate justice, health in all policies. See @CroakeyNews @WePublicHealth. She/her.
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6 days ago |
croakey.org | Melissa Sweet
A timely new report urges governments, the health sector and civil society to do more to address the underlying reasons why some groups of people are sicker and die younger than other groups – the social determinants of health equity. Melissa Sweet writes:As the Albanese Government looks to its next term, the World Health Organization has this week released a landmark report with strong calls for governments to reap the health, social and economic benefits of reducing health inequities.
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6 days ago |
croakey.org | Melissa Sweet
Introduction by Croakey: As he spoke to Labor Caucus today, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stressed the importance of making sure young people feel secure in a world of rapid change. After Parliament returned, most likely at the end of July, the Government’s first legislation would be to reduce students’ HECS debt, he said.
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6 days ago |
croakey.org | Melissa Sweet
More than 30 United Nations experts have issued a warning to member States – end the violence, or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population in Gaza. The statement, released on 7 May, is published below.
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6 days ago |
croakey.org | Melissa Sweet
The rise of white nationalism and anti-science movements, news on gender and health, Indigenous knowledges, and wide-ranging updates in global health and public health are reported in the column this week. We also share a tribute to Professor Rinaldo Bellomo AO, described as “one of the most visionary and influential clinician-scientists of our time”, who passed away on Tuesday following a short illness. The quotable?
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1 week ago |
croakey.org | Melissa Sweet
A devastating overview of the impacts of Trump Administration cuts to global health and humanitarian programs is provided below by Avril Benoît, CEO of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the United States. “Amid ongoing chaos and confusion, our teams are already witnessing some of the life-threatening consequences of the Administration’s actions to date,” Benoît writes.
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