Leading international thinkers discuss ambitious international commitments to leaving no-one behind: disability, social inclusion, health and sustainable development.

The Nossal Institute has been awarded a VicHealth Sustainable Development Goals Partnership Grant for the project “Back to two wheels, biking to health-opportunities and challenges in enhancing road safety for smart sharing of bikes in China”. The VicHealth SDG Partnership Grant Round aims to build collaborative research partnerships with the potential to address the impact of global megatrends on specific UN Sustainable Development Goal targets. Arising from the boom of private bike-sharing service in China, this project aims to investigate the opportunities for increasing physical activity and the challenges of ensuring road safety as a means to assist in reducing premature mortality from NCDs and enhancing inclusive and sustainable urbanization. More importantly, it offers an opportunity for strengthening inter-sectoral policy development and public-private partnership in health promotion in digital transformation.Prof. Peter Annear, Prof. Barbara McPake and Ph.D candidate Tianxin Pan from the Nossal Institute will work closely with partners from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization China Office. This project will enhance partnership between VicHealth and University of Melbourne, and such collaboration is expected to lead to further activities between UoM and counterparts in China in public health and health promotion.(Source:  Tianxin Pan, Nossal Institute)

On Wednesday 5th April, the Global Health Alliance, based at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, hosted a private briefing for Alliance members with Dr Shin Young-Soo, Regional Director, WHO Office for the Western Pacific and Dr Vivien Lin, Director, Health Systems, WHO, WPRO.

Ageing populations and changing population health trends require a massive scale-up of appropriate rehabilitation services. The Nossal Institute for Global Health recently participated in the historic Rehabilitation 2030: A call to action, held at the headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva.

In our region, economies are growing, populations are ageing and the burden of disease is shifting. How can we make health systems more flexible and more sustainable?

A study on the effectiveness of Cambodia's Health Equity Fund program, which subsidises basic health care for the poor, was launched by the Nossal Institute and its partners last month in Phnom Penh.

Health delivery in many low to middle income countries is being compromised by private operators offering poor service by unqualified practitioners at exorbitant cost, according to a new Lancet Series co-edited by the University of Melbourne and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

If Big Tobacco screams you can be sure something is working and Big Tobacco certainly screams about plain packaging

Since 2013, Ms Sally Baker has been advising the Australian Government-funded Vanuatu Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Sector Strengthening Program in disability inclusion. Sally developed and oversees the implementation of a strategy which addresses the barriers which prevent people with disability from accessing skills development activities such as agriculture and handicraft production training, alongside everyone else.

The state of Manipur in Northeast India has been characterised by the dual public health problems of illicit injecting drug use and consequent HIV and hepatitis C infection for more than two decades. During the month of April, Associate Professor Michelle Kermode from the Nossal Institute and Dr David Jacka from Monash Health were working in Manipur to strengthen the delivery of methadone treatment for people who inject opioid drugs such as heroin.

In March 2016 an exciting International Forum ‘Better Together’ took place in Dehradun, North India. Facilitated and coordinated by Dr Grills of the Nossal Institute, approximately 40 people from eight countries met together to develop improved collaboration, effective networking and translate the current research into effective practice.

WHO commissions the Nossal Institute to teach the economics of health systems in Myanmar

With only one of the Sustainable Development Goals dedicated to health, what does that mean for maternal and newborn health globally?

Researchers give breath of life to critically ill children in developing countries.

Lisa Mamone looks at the tropical disease burden impacting the developing world, and the training that's needed to equip health workers and researchers to tackle it.