Jan 7, 2025 | Politics & Society
By Dr Maria Armoudian, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau. Image used is Entering Auckland by Joe Ross, used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic. Government’s proposal to hike public transport fares will threaten a triple whammy –...
Sep 25, 2024 | Politics & Society
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...
Nov 15, 2023 | Featured, Science & Technology
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...
Aug 28, 2023 | Featured, Politics & Society
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...
Aug 24, 2023 | Featured, Science & Technology
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...
May 4, 2023 | Featured, Politics & Society
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...
Apr 26, 2023 | Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society
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...
Jul 20, 2021 | Science & Technology
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...
Jun 7, 2021 | Science & Technology
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...
May 19, 2021 | Politics & Society
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...