In this edition:

• A word from the Director
• We are Systems Thinkers
• Identifying barriers to effective coverage of Primary Health Care
• Improving access to rehabilitation in Uganda
• Do social norms drive violence against women?
• Setting the One Health research agenda for antimicrobial resistance
• Improving livelihoods for smallholder farmers
• Do we understand our decision-making data?
• Listen with care: The burden of hearing loss
• Unequal access to COVID-19 treatments is threatening the global recovery
• Moving from reactive to predictive: The Future of Health
• Public health policing and police partnerships 
• Implementing Evidence-Based Rehabilitation
• Professional Development Opportunities
• New additions to the Nossal Team 
• Recent publications

• Medical science and research generally are key to solving some of the world’s biggest problems, but this needs to be fostered, says Prof Christobel Saunders AO. Watch Prof Saunders deliver the Priscilla Kincaid-Smith Oration on Health 
• What is health economics? New episode of The OrthoPod with Dr Chris Schilling Director of Economics and Modelling at KPMG Australia talking about the economic burden of musculoskeletal disease in Australia. 
• Towards a Culture of Wellbeing: What does this mean and how do we all get there? Catch up on the Australian Global Health Alliance discussion

A word from the Director

I will be stepping down as Director of the Institute at the end of 2022. I have loved leading the Nossal Institute and will be focusing on contributing to processes that will ensure our future with a sustained focus and continued growth in scale, impact and global reputation.

During the COVID pandemic, we all clearly saw the consequences of disconnection between the systems working toward our health. Our multi-disciplinary team builds understanding of the complex interactions between political, social, cultural, industrial, agricultural and ecological factors that influence health. As an organisation, we have continued to refine and clarify our focus as ‘Systems Thinkers for Global Health’ (see our new explainer diagram below).

We recognise health outcomes are reliant on multiple relationships, processes and systems and are supporting our partners to use systems thinking to advance health equity, inclusion and ecological sustainability.

The Institutes' impact in Global Health continues to grow. We hope you will enjoy reading about some of the projects we are working on to strengthen the quality, affordability and inclusiveness of health systems in the Asia and Pacific regions.

Stay well
Barbara

New additions to the Nossal Team

Our team has been expanding to support some exciting new projects. We welcome our new staff

Melanie Bannister-Tyrrell
Principal Adviser

Melanie is an epidemiologist with more than 10 years of transdisciplinary expertise in infectious disease prevention, control and elimination. She has substantial experience working in One Health, health security and malaria elimination, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Read more 

Carla Chan Unger
Technical Adviser

Carla is a multidisciplinary researcher with an applied background in international development, she is passionate about using research evidence to inform the development of policies and programs that improve broader social and health outcomes. Read more

Noor Shah Kamawal
Technical Adviser

Noor Shah Kamawal is an expert in health system strengthening with a strong focus on improving access to, and quality of, healthcare services. In collaboration with UNICEF and WHO country offices, he has worked with Gavi and Global Fund to improve access to and quality of healthcare services, build capacity of human resources in primary healthcare settings, establishing medicine and healthcare regulatory authority in Afghanistan Read more

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Recent publications of our academics and researchers

Armstrong, G., Haregu, T., Young, J., & Paradies, Y. (2022). What are the effects of ethnicity, sexuality, disability and obesity on the odds of experiencing discrimination among Australian males? A nationwide cross-sectional survey. BMJ OPEN, 12(1), 7 pages. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053355

Balakrishnan, K., Haregu, T., Hill, A. O., Young, J. T., & Armstrong, G. (2022). Discrimination experienced by sexual minority males in Australia: Associations with suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms. J Affect Disord, 305, 173-178. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2022.03.009

Bartkowiak-Théron, I., Clover, J., Martin, D., Southby, R. F., & Crofts, N. (2022). Conceptual and Practice Tensions in LEPH: Public Health Approaches to Policing and Police and Public Health Collaborations. In Law Enforcement and Public Health (pp. 3-13). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-83913-0_1

Beavon, E., Aldridge, E., Grills, N., & Buntine, P. (2022). Working together to strengthen the fence: the interplay between emergency medicine and public health. Aust N Z J Public Health. doi:10.1111/1753-6405.13220

Cao, Y., Huynh, Q., Kapoor, N., Jeemon, P., Mello, G. T. D., Oldenburg, B., . . . Sathish, T. (2022). Associations between Dietary Patterns and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors-A Longitudinal Analysis among High-Risk Individuals for Diabetes in Kerala, India. NUTRIENTS, 14(3), 13 pages. doi:10.3390/nu14030662

Clune, T., Lockwood, A., Hancock, S., Thompson, A. N., Beetson, S., Bruce, M., . . . Jacobson, C. (2022). Seropositivity to Coxiella burnetii in primiparous and multiparous ewes from southern Australia: A cross-sectional study. COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 80, 6 pages. doi:10.1016/j.cimid.2021.101727

Clune, T., Lockwood, A., Hancock, S., Thompson, A. N., Beetson, S., Campbell, A. J. D., . . . Jacobson, C. (2022). Abortion and Lamb Mortality between Pregnancy Scanning and Lamb Marking for Maiden Ewes in Southern Australia. ANIMALS, 12(1), 14 pages. doi:10.3390/ani12010010

Cumming, C., Armstrong, G., Borschmann, R., Foulds, J. A., Newton-Howes, G., McKetin, R., . . . Young, J. (2022). Amphetamine-type stimulant use and self-harm: protocol for a systematic review of observational studies. BMJ OPEN, 12(1), 6 pages. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057029

Ewe, K. Y. H., Blyth, C. C., McLeod, C., Borland, M. L., Bowen, A. C., Yeoh, D. K., & Campbell, A. J. (2022). Re-examining Hepatitis B Postexposure Prophylaxis Following Pediatric Community-acquired Needle-stick Injury in an Era of a National Immunization Registry. PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL, 41(1), 80-84. doi:10.1097/INF.0000000000003350

Gale, L., Bhushan, P., Eidnani, S., Graham, L., Harrison, M., McKay-Brown, L., . . . Sivashunmugam, C. (2022). Overcoming barriers to inclusion in education in India: A scoping review. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 5(1), 100237. doi:10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100237

Ghosh PK, Kane S, Kumar S, Ali SZ, Sahu S, Sanyal S, Chowdhury M, McPake B, Mahal M. Health seeking pathways in Uttar Pradesh and Odisha, India. National Council of Applied Economic Research and Nossal Institute For Global Health, Melbourne. 2021. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6356653

Hone, P., Black, J., Sathish, T., Kapoor, N., Cao, Y., Haregu, T., . . . Oldenburg, B. (2022). Determinants of Health Service Utilization Among Adults at High Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes in Kerala, India. ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 7 pages. doi:10.1177/10105395211072497

Kwasnicka, D., Keller, J., Perski, O., Potthoff, S., Ten Hoor, G. A., Ainsworth, B., . . . Sanderman, R. (2022). White Paper: Open Digital Health - accelerating transparent and scalable health promotion and treatment. Health Psychol Rev, 1-37. doi:10.1080/17437199.2022.2046482

Kwon, J., Freijser, L., Huynh, E., Howell, M., Chen, G., Khan, K., . . . Petrou, S. (2022). Systematic Review of Conceptual, Age, Measurement and Valuation Considerations for Generic Multidimensional Childhood Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (Jan, 10.1007/s40273-021-01128-0, 2022). PHARMACOECONOMICS, 2 pages. doi:10.1007/s40273-022-01135-9

Kwon, J., Freijser, L., Huynh, E., Howell, M., Chen, G., Khan, K., . . . Petrou, S. (2022). Systematic Review of Conceptual, Age, Measurement and Valuation Considerations for Generic Multidimensional Childhood Patient-Reported Outcome Measures. PHARMACOECONOMICS, 53 pages. doi:10.1007/s40273-021-01128-0

Lakin, K., & Kane, S. (2022). Peoples' expectations of healthcare: A conceptual review and proposed analytical framework. Soc Sci Med, 292, 114636. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114636

Ludwick, T., Endriyas, M., Morgan, A., Kane, S., & McPake, B. (2022). Moving from community-based to health centre-based management: impact on urban community health worker performance in Ethiopia. Health Policy Plan, 37(2), 169-188. doi:10.1093/heapol/czab112

Ludwick, T., Ishida, M., Desai, S., & Mahal, A. (2022). Witnessing Intimate Partner Violence Impacts Schooling and Labor Market Outcomes for Young Women in India. Population and Development Review. doi:10.1111/padr.12460

McPake, B., Gilbert, K., Vong, S., Ros, B., Has, P., Anh, T. K., . . . McKinley, J. (2022). Role of regulatory capacity in the animal and human health systems in driving response to zoonotic disease outbreaks in the Mekong region. ONE HEALTH, 14, 14 pages. doi:10.1016/j.onehlt.2022.100369

Owolabi, M. O., Thrift, A. G., Mahal, A., Ishida, M., Martins, S., Johnson, W., . . . Feigin, V. L. (2022). p Primary stroke prevention worldwide: translating evidence into action. LANCET PUBLIC HEALTH, 7(1), E74-E85. doi:10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00230-9

Potthoff, S., Kwasnicka, D., Avery, L., Finch, T., Gardner, B., Hankonen, N., . . . Grimshaw, J. M. (2022). Changing healthcare professionals' non-reflective processes to improve the quality of care. Soc Sci Med, 298, 114840. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114840

Ruiz-Turrero, J., Massar, K., Kwasnicka, D., & Ten Hoor, G. A. (2022). The Relationship between Compulsive Exercise, Self-Esteem, Body Image and Body Satisfaction in Women: A Cross-Sectional Study. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 19(3), 9 pages. doi:10.3390/ijerph19031857

Searle, K., Blashki, G., Kakuma, R., Yang, H., & Minas, H. (2022). Listening to the Shenzhen Primary Healthcare Context to Adapt the mhGAP-IG.v2 for the Assessment of Depression: Qualitative Workshops with Primary Healthcare Leaders. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 19(5). doi:10.3390/ijerph19052570

Searle, K., Blashki, G., Kakuma, R., Yang, H., Lu, S., Li, B., . . . Minas, H. (2022). Adapting the depression component of WHO Mental Health Gap Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG.v2) for primary care in Shenzhen, China: a DELPHI study. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEMS, 16(1), 15 pages. doi:10.1186/s13033-022-00523-0

Smith-Merry, J., O'donovan, M. -A., Dew, A., Hemsley, B., Imms, C., Carey, G., . . . Plumb, J. (2022). The Future of Disability Research in Australia: Protocol for a Multiphase Research Agenda-Setting Study. JMIR RESEARCH PROTOCOLS, 11(1), 11 pages. doi:10.2196/31126

Wallbank, G., Sherrington, C., Hassett, L., Kwasnicka, D., Chau, J. Y., Phongsavan, P., . . . Tiedemann, A. (2022). Acceptability and feasibility of an online physical activity program for women over 50: a pilot trial. TRANSLATIONAL BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE, 12(2), 225-236. doi:10.1093/tbm/ibab161

Wilbur, J., Morrison, C., Iakavai, J., Shem, J., Poilapa, R., Bambery, L., . . . Mactaggart, I. (2022). The weather is not good: exploring the menstrual health experiences of menstruators with and without disabilities in Vanuatu. Lancet Reg Health West Pac, 18, 100325. doi:10.1016/j.lanwpc.2021.100325

Zhao, Y., He, L., Marthias, T., Ishida, M., Anindya, K., Desloge, A., . . . Lee, J. T. (2022). Out-of-Pocket Expenditure Associated with Physical Inactivity, Excessive Weight and Obesity in China: Quantile Regression Approach. Obes Facts. doi:10.1159/000522433