This report highlights growing health inequality between city and country New South Wales. Those in the state’s far west are twice as likely to die prematurely as their Sydney counterparts, and their deaths are two and a half times more likely to be potentially avoidable.

The authors of this report argue that the Albanese Government’s promised Australian Centre for Disease Control, or ACDC, could provide the wake-up call Australia needs - but only if preventing chronic disease is a core part of its mission.

Mindfulness-based interventions and setting realistic goals are preferred in low socioeconomic communities. This study aimed to test if these interventions, delivered online and consolidated with peer support offered via ex-smokers, are successful in promoting smoking cessation and resilience.

This report examines how patient safety governance mechanisms in OECD countries have withstood the test of COVID-19 and provides recommendations for countries in further improving patient safety governance and strengthening health system resilience.

This research sets out to uncover which food categories could be promising targets for reformulation to reduce calorie consumption, and what the main barriers or opportunities to reformulation were for industry and policy-makers