Public Health Association of Australia
@publichealthaus
Australia's peak body for public health, advocating for the health and wellbeing of all people, everywhere. Equity, prevention, evidence.
PHAA CEO Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin told a Senate Committee about the massive disparity in money and political influence between the Alliance for Gambling Reform who seek to minimise public health harms, and big harmful industries.
PHAA CEO Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin told a Senate Committee today of the huge gambling losses faced by Australians, and called for a ban on gambling ads.
Merging the world's first health promotion foundation into the state's department of health is a mistake that must be reversed. When entitites like the Productivity Commission are urging investments in prevention, weakening VicHealth is an ill-informed, backward step. #SaveVicHealth 2/2
Members are among more than 50 people rallying at the VIC Parliament House now to #SaveVicHealth. Thank you all who've turned up tonight, or shared social media posts or articles, handed out flyers, written letters to politicians / local newspapers, worked the phones, and so much more. 1/2
Our next episode of Public Health Is… drops tomorrow morning and you won't want to miss this one. We're bringing you an exclusive chat between PHAA CEO Adjunct Terry Slevin and the Director General of the Australian Centre for Disease Control Professor Zoe Wainer. It's an absolute cracker.
We're bringing you a special episode of Public Health Is… as we unpack the AIHW report last week showing a further decline in the number of Australians smoking tobacco.
The public health community has applauded multiple efforts which have caused another drop in daily smoking rates to 5.6 percent of the population in 2025, down from 8.3% in 2022-23. The findings are in the AUS Institute of Health & Welfare’s 2025 National Drug Strategy Household Survey. 1/3
Episode one of our new podcast "Public Health Is..." is out today! Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/p... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/033EdEg... RSS Feed: api.riverside.com/hosting/9Dsr...
"Public Health Is..." coming Tuesday 14 July 2026 #publichealth #podcast
Dr @mon4kooyong.bsky.social told parliament Big Tobacco is using dirty tricks to try and influence tobacco policies. A cut to the tobacco excise could deliver $2.1bn every year to Big Tobacco companies, which makes you ask if that is the outcome, who are they paying to spruik this policy?
We are closing Day 1 of #CDIC2026 with a reflective, thoughtful speech from Professor Kristine Macartney from the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) as she delivers the 19th Annual Feery Oration.
We are honoured to have Prof Zoe Wainer, Director General of The Australian Centre for Disease Control, give the opening keynote address at our Communicable Diseases & Immunisation Conference 2026 #CDIC2026 Welcome to everyone joining us here at Marvel Stadium.
Laura Hunter from the Australian Council on Smoking & Health (ACOSH) spoke to ABC Radio National a day after the program featured a spokesperson for Big Tobacco.
When governments get serious about tackling the criminal illicit tobacco trade the overall smoking rate goes down. That's the story from SA where the government has increased enforcement of illicit tobacco driving down smoking rates. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
Our CEO Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin spoke with Prue Bentley on ABC Victoria Statewide yesterday to inject some common sense into the tobacco discussions which have again flared up this week.
Today is your last chance to submit an abstract for our Australian Public Health Conference 2026. Head to www.austph2026.com/call-for-abs... to submit your abstract by 11:59pm tonight.
Today is the first day of National Reconciliation Week. Please visit Reconciliation Australia's National Reconciliation Week website to learn more about the importance of the week, and links to events and resources: www.reconciliation.org.au/our-work/nat... #NationalReconciliationWeek
Our NSW Branch hosts its annual #PublicHealth #Careers Night on Thurs 30 July. See you between 6 and 8pm at the Innovation Quarter Westmead, on Burramattagal Land. More details coming soon. @phaahpsig.bsky.social @phaa-onehealth.bsky.social @phaa-fansig.bsky.social @phaa-sypph.bsky.social
Our PHAA members wear many hats, and many of them wear, at times, a volunteer hat. This #NationalVolunteerWeek we say thank you to them, and to all the people who give their time and talents to their communities, and to help make the world a little bit better through doing so.
Australia has some of the lowest smoking rates in the world - the result of decades of evidence-based policies that have saved lives. But this progress is under threat. Today, organisations from across Australia’s public health sector have come together to publish an open letter to all Australians.
We give our "in principle" support to the government's response to parliament's State of Diabetes Mellitus in Australia in 2024 report, but we still reckon there's a way to go. Read more: www.phaa.net.au/Web/News/Med...
Why not join the thousands of PHAA members by becoming a member today? Learn more at phaa.net.au/Web/Web/Memb...
We're inviting everyone, PHAA members and non-members, to our 2026 National Reconciliation Week webinar. This includes YOU!
We know prevention is better than the cure, and in preventive health early investment makes strong budgetary sense. It also keeps people healthier and happier.
Last week it was revealed Big Tobacco was able to appear to the Senate behind closed doors and campaign for cheaper cigarettes and a tax cut.
Following compelling evidence presented at #PHC2026 this week, showing the causal links between racism and health inequities in Australia as experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, we have officially moved and endorsed a statement declaring racism a public health emergency.
PHAA CEO Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin welcomes all delegates to Nipaluna / Hobart for our Preventive Health Conference 2026 #PHC2026
Encouraging news from new research published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health today shows an increase in trust and desire to receive flu vaccination. www.phaa.net.au/Web/Web/News... @sydney.edu.au
A message from PHAA CEO Terry Slevin 30 years on from Port Arthur.