Virginia Barbour Journalist Profile

Articles

Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us

1 week ago | mja.com.au | José Florencio F |Kamran Abbasi |Parveen Ali |Virginia Barbour

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (11): 548-549.
International Nursing Review | ICN Health Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library

2 weeks ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kamran Abbasi |Parveen Ali |Virginia Barbour |Marion Birch

This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the World Health Organization (WHO) to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war (World Health Organization 2025). Health professionals and their associations should urge their governments to support such a mandate and support the new UN comprehensive study on the effects of nuclear war. The first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert 80 years ago, in July 1945.
Acta Paediatrica | Paediatrics Journal | Wiley Online Library

3 weeks ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kamran Abbasi |Parveen Ali |Virginia Barbour |Marion Birch

This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the World Health Organization (WHO) to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war [1]. Health professionals and their associations should urge their governments to support such a mandate and support the new UN comprehensive study on the effects of nuclear war. The first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert 80 years ago, in July 1945.
Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us

1 month ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kamran Abbasi |Parveen Ali |Virginia Barbour |Marion Birch

This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the World Health Organization (WHO) to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations should urge their governments to support such a mandate and support the new UN comprehensive study on the effects of nuclear war. The first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert 80 years ago, in July 1945.
Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us

1 month ago | tandfonline.com | Kamran Abbasi |Parveen Ali |Virginia Barbour |Marion Birch

This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the World Health Organization (WHO) to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war [Citation1]. Health professionals and their associations should urge their governments to support such a mandate and support the new UN comprehensive study on the effects of nuclear war. The first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert 80 years ago, in July 1945.
Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us

1 month ago | bmj.com | Kamran Abbasi |Parveen Ali |Virginia Barbour |Marion Birch

Kamran Abbasi, editor in chief1, Parveen Ali, editor in chief2, Virginia Barbour, editor in chief, Marion Birch, editor in chief4, Inga Blum, At-large board member5, Peter Doherty, 1996 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine, Andy Haines, professor of environmental change and public health6, Ira Helfand, past president5, Richard Horton, editor in chief7, Kati Juva, co-president5, Jose F Lapena8, Jrvice president, Robert Mash, editor in chief9, Olga Mironova, co-president5, Arun Mitra, past...
Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War: The Role of Health Professionals

Mar 25, 2025 | ncmedicaljournal.com | Kamran Abbasi |Parveen Ali |Virginia Barbour |Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

To the Editor -In January 2023, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward to 90 seconds before midnight, reflecting the growing risk of nuclear war. In August 2022, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, warned that the world is now in "a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War". The danger has been underlined by growing tensions between many nuclear-armed states.
The social and political framework of health

Jan 12, 2025 | mja.com.au | Virginia Barbour

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (1): 3-3. || doi: 10.5694/mja2.52561 Published online: 13 January 2025 This first 2025 issue of the MJA marks the beginning of a year in which a new US president takes office and in which Australia will have a federal election. Health is always a social and political issue and should not be confined to health portfolios.
Setting targets, measuring costs, tracking health outcomes and learning lessons

Oct 20, 2024 | mja.com.au | Virginia Barbour

This issue of the MJA has a range of articles that examine various aspects of the Australian health system, and which then reflect on the lessons that can be drawn. The articles cover a wide diversity of topics, from stroke targets to hospital‐acquired complications, cost barriers to medication access and lessons learnt from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Nothing about us without us

May 5, 2024 | mja.com.au | Virginia Barbour

This issue of the MJA includes several articles that raise what it looks like to meaningfully involve consumers in health care discussions. The first is a research article (https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.52283) that brings together two fascinating and topical issues in health care: artificial intelligence (AI) in health care and the involvement of the community in health care, in this case via a citizens’ jury.