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  • Media release: A new voice to boost New Zealand’s response to major public health challenges

    … The new Public Health Communication Centre (PHCC) will boost the impact of research to improve health and equity in Aotearoa New … along with greater environmental sustainability.  Director of the PHCC, well-known University of Otago epidemiologist …
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  • Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant

    … In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, everybody now knows that: Warnings … for decades Myriad organisations had called for increased health security funding The world ignored all these warnings … Psychological research has shown that these kinds of rare but devastating events are exactly the ones humans …
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  • NZ’s COVID-19 response compared to selected other jurisdictions: Australia, Taiwan and the United States

    … has involved comparing NZ’s COVID-19 response with a range of other jurisdictions, especially: Australia, Taiwan and the … Taiwan’s high quality performance still holds a number of lessons for NZ with its ongoing response. Previously we … the US. In this blog we update the numbers around the key health outcomes for these jurisdictions and comment on the …
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  • The UK Government shows leadership with a Soft Drink Tax announcement

    … environment. NZ adults consume approximately 29 teaspoons of sugar per day, and children consume approximately 25 … adults, and it is clear that Kiwis far exceed the World Health Organization free sugars target of less than 10% of daily energy (about 12 teaspoons of …
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  • Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes: emerging evidence is concerning for NZ

    … new evidence and puts it into a NZ context. Nitrate is one of the most common drinking water contaminants in NZ, largely … concerns over nitrate contamination. 1-3 Our recent study of the current nitrate levels in NZ drinking water showed as … drinking water nitrate limit of 11.3 mg/L set by the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO limit is only designed to …
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  • The allure of a Virtual Supermarket for public health nutrition research

    … The Virtual Supermarket is a 3D computer model of a real supermarket that we started developing some years … – what is the allure of a virtual supermarket for public health nutrition research? Testing food pricing strategies … The paper just recently got published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research  [10]. Result – the purchases were …
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  • Kiwi public health doc reporting back from Victoria (Australia): “Do quarantine well!”

    … a letter home. I have now been full-time at the University of Melbourne since 2019. Before that, I was 20 years at the … of Otago, Wellington. Indeed, I set up this very Public Health Expert Blog with Nick Wilson ten years ago. Now I am … conference from Premier Daniel Andrews and Chief Health Officer (CHO) Brett Sutton on Tuesday that announced 10 …
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  • Concluding the Public Health Solutions Series 

    … Over the last five weeks, Public Health Expert blog has published ten invited blogs on the … “ remains under massive strain ” and with the relaxing of covid rules this issue is unlikely to ease in the near future. The ongoing demands of Covid-19, long covid and deferred routine care will …
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  • From across the Ditch: How Australia has to decide on the least worst option for COVID-19

    … Australia owes a debt of gratitude to its pandemic modellers, public health officials and politicians – we have avoided the … six or so months. To tool up the production of masks and medical supplies. To learn as quickly as possible which …
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  • Ireland leads New Zealand in the battle against obesity

    … is planning on obesity and food – a far cry from the state of play in New Zealand. Which has led to this blog, in which … Ireland and New Zealand. Tony Blakely. In the last couple of years the Irish rugby team gave the All Blacks cause to … cross-sectoral ‘whole of government’ approach to improving health and tackling obesity in the country’s quest to become …
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