Public Health
A Queensland First Nations women's legal service has welcomed the State Government's Budget commitments but called for longer-term funding and fair inflation support for community-controlled organisat...
Children are living in abject poverty amid an Aboriginal housing crisis following years of neglect, a conference has been told. The crisis in the Northern Territory was largely centred on remote commu...
A dip in vaccination rates has been blamed for one of Australia's worst diphtheria outbreaks as the rare respiratory disease continues to spread.
A public health expert has urged people to get tested and vaccinated as diphtheria spreads from the Northern Territory to Western Australia, Queensland and South Australia.
Australia has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, the World Health Organisation says, in a landmark achievement. The world's leading infectious cause of preventable blindness, trachoma is...
Torres Strait Islander public health academic Francis Nona has called on the medical profession to address the rising health inequity of Indigenous peoples due to climate change.
Friendly family rivalry meets important health messaging at a unique sporting day headed to Naarm later this month. The Family Mixed Netball Carnival, brought by Indigenous anti-smoking and vaping cam...
In less than 20 years, 320 Indigenous Australians aged 17 and over died on New South Wales roads, with thousands more people seriously injured, new research has found.
The power of Indigenous knowledge was a key focus at the New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine (NZCPHM) annual scientific meeting, Hui Pūtaiao a-tau, recently held in Rotorua.
Australia's public health peak body has moved to include an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander body into its structure. The establishment of Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA)'s First Na...
Aotearoa's New Public Health Director Dr Corina Grey says she is "laser focused" on making a difference in her new role, especially for Māori and Pacific peoples,.
The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory has welcomed the NT government's decision to commission a dedicated Incident Management Team (IMT) to respond to the ongoing syphilis outbre...
Queensland authorities are encouraging residents to take precautions to avoid mosquito bites this summer as the community heads into a period of increased risk of mosquito borne diseases.