The Department of Health and Aged Care invited us to participate in a consultation workshop and provide written feedback on the Discussion Paper for the new Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC). A Centre for Disease Control is a necessary development for...
Tiffany Petre, the Director of the Obesity Collective was a recent guest on the Collective Engagement for Social Purpose podcast series. The episode on the Obesity Collective launched in December and highlights the origins of the Obesity Collective, how the Collective...
Health and Wellbeing Queensland recently released their draft Queensland Obesity Prevention strategy (2023-2032) and Strengthen (2023-2025) Action Plan for public consultation. Health and Wellbeing Queensland and the Queensland government took a leadership role in the...
There has been a lot of media focused on weight stigma in the last few months, off the back of the Public Health Research and Practice paper on weight stigma, led by our Weight Stigma Expert group. It has been a great opportunity to highlight some of the key messages...
We were grateful to be invited to attend and speak at the Health and Wellbeing Queensland Symposia 2022 in November. It was an opportunity to celebrate the great work of this organisation and the commitment from the Queensland government to invest in the community’s...
We recently submitted a letter to the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce, outlining the urgent and critical need for better healthcare pathways, funding, and tools to support clinicians and health consumers with conversations about obesity and health. There is a...
