We are thrilled that Australia’s clinical practice guidelines for the management of obesity are being updated! Australia’s previous clinical guidelines were first published in 2010 and were rescinded in 2018, leaving clinicians without guidelines or a framework of...
At the Collective, we regularly receive media requests, which offer important opportunities to raise awareness of the science and reality of obesity and directly speak about the harms of stigma. Recently there has been a lot of interest in a GLP-1 agonist treatment...
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...
