17 March 2021. The Sax Institute’s peer-reviewed journal Public Health Research & Practice has published an important new paper authored by Indigenous leaders about institutional racism in our health system. Deep-seated resistance to addressing the problem is thwarting progress towards improving the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres...
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17 March 2021. The past few years have seen a growing interest across the research and policy worlds in the concept of co-production. This is a model of research in which researchers and key stakeholders collaborate, bringing different expertise to address shared problems. Key stakeholders can be patients, the...
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16 March 2021. Older Australians with prostate cancer are twice as likely to receive surgery over radiotherapy, despite similar survival rates, according to new research from our 45 and Up Study.
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16 March 2021. There are many moving parts in a government’s response to a highly infectious disease such as COVID-19. In the acute phase, the focus is rightly on public health strategies to contain the pandemic. But over the longer term, it is critically important for policymakers to understand...
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Media release: 10 March 2021. Deep-seated resistance to addressing institutional and systemic racism in our health system is thwarting progress towards improving the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, say Indigenous leaders in an important paper published today. The authors of the Perspective, published in...
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24 March 2021. 45 and Up data is ready and available to Australia’s researchers, and there’s more to the data than meets the eye. We sat down with Dr Kerrin Bleicher, Director of the Sax Institute’s Research Assets Division, to talk about what the Study can offer the research...
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16 February 2021. Forming partnerships can lead to truly rewarding research that directly responds to policy needs and can make a positive impact on our health system. But how do early career researchers build these relationships…and keep them? This is the topic of the Sax Institute’s training course on...
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9 February 2021. Public health research received some well-deserved recognition in this year’s Australia Day honours list with the appointment of epidemiologist Professor Emily Banks as a Member of the Order of Australia. Professor Banks, a Senior Adviser at the Sax Institute and head of the National Centre for...
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8 February 2021. For Aboriginal teens, strong social connections and good mental health could be the key to staying smoke-free, according to new research based on the SEARCH study.
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3 February 2021. Helping immigrants settle into well-integrated neighbourhoods may decrease mental health issues, according to new research from our 45 and Up Study.
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