In this policy brief, the authors write that pandemics provide fertile ground for the spread of misinformation, which disrupts the process of free opinion formation by drowning out accurate information and exploiting common cognitive biases, making incorrect information seem more compelling.

This study highlights how the collective intelligence of experts from diverse disciplines can generate participatory system mapping and how using systems mapping can help experts interested in complex public health problems to take a broader view of the complex adaptive system for preventive health planning.

Australians are already experiencing the impacts of climate change on their health and wellbeing. To address these current and future challenges, the Australian Government has committed to making the issue a national health priority.

A key recommendation in this report if for the Australian government to establishes a taskforce within the Department of Health and Aged Care, overseen by a Chief Dental and Oral Health Officer, to identify and progress opportunities to integrate oral and dental health care into primary health care.

Vaccination rates have plummeted since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report argues that Australia urgently needs a policy reset to save lives and take pressure off hospitals.