22 Oct 2020
The George Institute has announced a new trial to test whether common blood pressure medications reduce the duration and severity of lung failure due to COVID-19 will be supported by government funding. Read more here.
22 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020
An Institute-led project and two collaborative projects led by UNSW have received funding as part of $29 million for life-saving research initiatives announced this week by the Minister of Health, Greg Hunt, to tackle Australia’s two biggest killers – heart attacks and stroke. Read more here
22 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020
With the government’s recent release of sodium targets as part of its Healthy Food Partnership reformulation program, new research from The George Institute finds that packaged foods from supermarket retailers were the highest contributors to household sodium purchases. Read the full story by clicking below link.
22 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020
As many as 1.7 million Australians have chronic kidney disease (CKD) and each year around 3,000 progress to end-stage kidney disease requiring dialysis or kidney transplantation. More than 13,000 Australians are currently receiving dialysis and over 12,000 Australians are living with a kidney transplant. Read more here.
22 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020
With so many Australians consuming food served at publicly-funded institutions - like schools, workplaces and hospitals - on a daily basis, these facilities are well placed to influence healthy eating through good nutrition policy.
22 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020
The George Institute for Global Health welcomes the decision by Ministers of the Australia and New Zealand Food Regulation Ministers Forum to improve alcohol labelling but fears the lost opportunity to optimize the health benefits of the Health Star Rating system.
22 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020
The George Institute for Global Health welcomes the new national agreement on Closing the Gap. The landmark reforms are a culmination of generations of advocates, community members and experts joining together to drive shared decision making with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities.
22 Oct 2020
20 Oct 2020
On 24 September 2020, the Friends of the Task Force met in the margins of the high-level segment of the 75thsession of the United Nations General Assembly. Participants included Member States, UN agencies and non-State actors. The meeting was co-hosted by the Government of the Russian Federation and the World Health Organization, and co-sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme, the In...
20 Oct 2020
19 Oct 2020
During the first-ever virtual 75th United Nations General Assembly, NCD Alliance co-hosted a high-level roundtable with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Permanent Mission of Jamaica to the United Nations and the United Nations Inter-agency Taskforce on NCDs. The roundtable ‘Building forward better: A new approach to mobilize investment for noncommunicable disease...
19 Oct 2020
18 Oct 2020
The George Institute for Global Health Imperial has established a new partnership with the George Institute for Global Health, focusing on the development and evaluation of innovative and sustainable global health systems.
18 Oct 2020
18 Oct 2020
The George Institute for Global Health Digital health apps have the potential to improve health behaviours and outcomes, in an easy and sustainable way. The CONNECT trial aimed to examine the effectiveness of a consumer web-based app linked to primary care electronic health records (EHRs), to find out whether the app would positively impact patients with, or at risk of, cardiovascular disease....
18 Oct 2020
18 Oct 2020
The George Institute for Global Health New research by The George Institute for Health has investigated sex‐disparities in the abandonment of childhood cancer treatment in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) and identified the characteristics of children and their families most disadvantaged by such abandonment.
18 Oct 2020
