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The rate of very high psychological distress is rising most steeply in the middle aged, especially in middle-aged women on low incomes. New funding should match this need.
Public health remains the Cinderella of services when it comes to health budgets. But the pandemic has shown why New Zealand urgently needs a better investment approach.
The New Zealand government is set to introduce sweeping reforms to the country’s health system. But without changes in how the system is funded, will the reforms achieve their goals?
Scientific knowledge is a critical driver for human health and wellbeing, economic development and environmental sustainability.
New Zealanders have, in principle, access to free healthcare. But inequality is a major issue, affecting Māori and Pasifika communities and New Zealanders living with disabilities or in poverty.
Some hard lessons have been learned along the way but the contact tracing system in Victoria is now very comprehensive and increasingly robust.
How do we develop new drugs quickly yet safely? How prepared are we to give up some personal freedoms? And how do we allocate scarce resources? These are just some of the tough questions we face.
To reverse brain drain, the government should create a conducive environment for investment that will ensure employment opportunities
Research is the foundation for evidence-based policies. But because of funding prohibitions, there’s little US research to inform the contentious debate around gun violence and gun control.
A strike by Kenyan nurses points to the country’s failure to manage the devolution of responsibility for health care from national to county governments.
Horrific mass shootings in the US typically renew the national debate about gun policy. A gun researcher explains the lack of funding for study in this area and what that means for informed policy.
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Penn State
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor; Co-Director, Centre for Health Systems and Technology, University of Otago
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Executive Director, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor, Griffith University
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Tutorial Fellow, School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, University of Nairobi
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Director of Science, Ifakara Health Institute
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Professor of Economics and Co-Director, Centre for Social Data Analytics, AUT, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor of Adult Psychiatry, Monash University
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Lecturer, Department of Community Medicine, University of Ibadan
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Lecturer, Department of Public Health, University of Otago
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Research fellow (Harvard Takemi fellow), Harvard University
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Assciate Professor in Epidemiology, University of Otago
