Strategy for difficult reform

Strategy for difficult reform

Big public health reform can happen quickly when the conditions are right, but most often effective and long term change is incremental and slow. We saw in the aftermath of the terrible loss of life in the Port Arthur Massacre that gun control could happen rapidly....
Epidemiology: moving from anecdotes to averages

Epidemiology: moving from anecdotes to averages

Have you heard the story about the one person who beat cancer with positive thinking? Or that Winston Churchill smoked cigars and drank alcohol from morning to evening and even while in bed, lived to be 90 so we can all smoke and drink without harm? Or that out of the...
A public health approach to racism

A public health approach to racism

The way people perceive racism is clearly divisive. There are heated parliamentary debates, frequent discussion in traditional and social media and substantial debate regarding the anti-racism movement internationally. There are differing views of what racism is,...