We have the maps but can we follow the tracks? Our journey to being the healthiest country
by 2020

28 April 2009

OxHA and the Menzies Centre for Health Policy co-hosted a topical public seminar to explore the similarities, differences and implications of two major recent health policy documents impacting on chronic diseases and their modifiable risk factors in Australia:

• Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health by the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, Geneva
• Australia: the healthiest country by 2020 by the National Preventative Health Taskforce, Canberra

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Click here to view Call made for social justice in health policy, an article published in UniNews.

Healthy and Sustainable Communities

26 July 2007

Hosted by the Australian Health Policy Institute at The University of Sydney and OxHA, this seminar explored how both human health and the environment should be considered when constructing policy for urban and regional planning and sustainability.

Speakers included:

• Associate Professor Susan Thompson, Head, Planning and Urban Development Program, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales
• Stuart Hodgson, Associate, Arup
• Georgia Vitale, Senior Urban Planner/Designer, Arup
• Sarah Thackway, Director, Centre Epidemiology and Research, NSW Health Department
• Colin James, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney

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Seminar Series

In 2006 the Australian Health Policy Institute held a successful series of OxHA seminars which explored cutting edge issues through presentations by eminent speakers:

• Policy Responses to Contemporary Health Issues: Sustainability
• Occupational Health and Safety
• New Models of Primary Prevention: How well do they translate into action?

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