What are the health benefits of decarbonising transport?
By Caroline Shaw, Associate Professor in Public Health, University of Otago. Photo is NZ AK Queen Street by Itineris55, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. With walking and cycling funding halved in the government’s recently released National Land Transport Programme, and a...
Are we heading towards a world without antibiotics?
Allen Cheng, Monash University Photo by Luke Jones on Unsplash These days, we don’t think much about being able to access a course of antibiotics to head off an infection. But that wasn’t always the case – antibiotics have been available for less than a...
Are Commercial Lobbyists Gaining the Upper Hand in New Zealand’s Public Health Discourse?
Words by Boyd Swinburn Photo by amirali mirhashemian on Unsplash Calls for public health action have historically been swamped by industry opposition and now this imbalance is even worse. Whatever happens in this year’s election, the Labour Government...
Is Targeted Protection the Key to Managing Endemic COVID?
Words by Michael Plank, University of Canterbury; Freya Shearer, The University of Melbourne; James McCaw, The University of Melbourne, and James Wood, UNSW Sydney Photo by Ashkan Forouzani on Unsplash Interventions designed to limit the spread of COVID have...
Are tobacco companies’ warnings about a black market misleading?
Photo by Andres Siimon on Unsplash Janet Hoek, University of Otago and Anna DeMello, University of Otago Tobacco companies claim to be transforming their business by “reducing the health impact” of their products. Yet they often oppose the very policies that could...
Are we doing enough? Ngā Ara Whetū’s reaction to the 6th IPCC report
Photo by NOAA on Unsplash Climate change is the “bread and butter” issue of our times, as spelled out in the latest synthesis of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report. If we do not urgently address climate change, there will be much...
What’s the right COVID-19 risk to live with?
By Tony Blakely, Tim Wilson & Vijaya Sundararajan As Australia looks toward opening its international borders, new virus modelling provides scenarios that can help us decide what’s the right risk to tolerate. As Australia inches up its vaccine rollout, the...
Climate change or COVID-19: Which is a greater threat to our health?
By Caleb Dresser The human impact of COVID-19 has been horrific, and the health impacts of climate change continue to mount. Rather than focus on comparing the scale of these catastrophes, we should heed the lessons of our experience with COVID-19 as we face a...
COVID in India: What has happened and what needs to be done?
By Arindam Basu A long summer awaits India and the world will need to come together to solve the crisis. None of us are really safe until all of us are safe from COVID-19. One hopes that the Indian experience has taught the world this lesson. As of 10 May, 2021, India...Subscribe by Email
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